Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently came back from Paris, and I had the experience a few times in crowded museums where I could distinctly smell body odor from a number of people, most likely tourists wearing the same clothes over and over so they could avoid checking their luggage.

I wish the airlines would make checking luggage free and charge passengers to carry on their bags. That would solve a number of problems at once.

This is the platonic ideal of leaps of logic and hilarious assumptions that make DCUM so special.

I've been on online travel forums of one kind or another for just shy of 30 years now. And I find some of the people here (DCUM "Travel Discussion") the silliest I've ever encountered. And the advice? LOL.

Anonymous wrote:I recently came back from Paris, and I had the experience a few times in crowded museums where I could distinctly smell body odor from a number of people, most likely tourists wearing the same clothes over and over so they could avoid checking their luggage.

I wish the airlines would make checking luggage free and charge passengers to carry on their bags. That would solve a number of problems at once.

OK, if we're making up arbitrary rules, then let's have the airlines pay me something like $50,000 every time they lose or delay my free checked luggage.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently came back from Paris, and I had the experience a few times in crowded museums where I could distinctly smell body odor from a number of people, most likely tourists wearing the same clothes over and over so they could avoid checking their luggage.

I wish the airlines would make checking luggage free and charge passengers to carry on their bags. That would solve a number of problems at once.

This is the platonic ideal of leaps of logic and hilarious assumptions that make DCUM so special.

I’m not sure what’s so hilarious- when in a place full of tourists- to think that very bad body odor smells might be emanating at least partially from clothes that haven’t been washed.

Sure, there are other reasons people might have a strong body odor wafting about them, but tourists rewearing unwashed clothes in a place filled with tourists is not that big of a leap as a possible reason.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IME the international flights are more strict about carryon sizes than domestic.

Yes, this is what I’m discovering.

I’m baffled by all the dcum posters who travel to Europe for multiple weeks with just a carry on. They must all stay in airbnbs with access to laundry facilities and rewear the same handful of outfits over and over.

Yes, this is what people do. Or we stay in hotels and pay for laundry.

I never check bags. Even if I check bags, it would be a carry on like we are doing going to Asia this summer for a month.

You can definitely make it work by doing laundry on your trip and it's not actually that hard to do. If you check a 40/45L carry on, bring on the plane a backpack of 20L and separately a duffle of 30L - you have like 95L worth of space right there. Esp in summer season, not sure why that's hard to do.

Checking in bags means hauling bags all over the place. In Europe and Asia, typically, you travel and not just stay in one place for weeks. And if you are, I assume it's with family or somewhere laundry would not be hard? So why would anyone in their right mind want to haul more than 95L around with them everywhere on their holiday??! That's what I can't understand.

I don’t like to smell, nor do I like doing laundry in a public machine every few days, so we bring checked luggage. It works for us. We have travel insurance and don’t check anything we would be heartbroken to lose. You do you but please be honest with yourself about how you smell.

Anonymous wrote:I recently came back from Paris, and I had the experience a few times in crowded museums where I could distinctly smell body odor from a number of people, most likely tourists wearing the same clothes over and over so they could avoid checking their luggage.

I wish the airlines would make checking luggage free and charge passengers to carry on their bags. That would solve a number of problems at once.

This is the platonic ideal of leaps of logic and hilarious assumptions that make DCUM so special.

I recently came back from Paris, and I had the experience a few times in crowded museums where I could distinctly smell body odor from a number of people, most likely tourists wearing the same clothes over and over so they could avoid checking their luggage.

I wish the airlines would make checking luggage free and charge passengers to carry on their bags. That would solve a number of problems at once.

Anonymous wrote:
Ever been to Italy in the summer?

You need fresh clothing.

Only been to Italy in March, and it was glorious weather. Carry-on only, and I had fresh clothing.

I've been to Singapore and Malaysia, which surely compare to Italy in the summer, for weeks carry-on only. I had fresh clothing.

Anonymous wrote:
I’m baffled by all the dcum posters who travel to Europe for multiple weeks with just a carry on. They must all stay in airbnbs with access to laundry facilities and rewear the same handful of outfits over and over.

And I'm baffled that people old enough to post on a travel forum and presumably go to Europe still haven't figured out how to travel for weeks with just a carry on. It's not hard, but it is a choice, and there are some skills involved to make it work. (You can do it!) Yes it sometimes involves staying in AirBnbs or the like with laundry facilities. Sometimes it involves hotels with laundry service. Sometimes it involves a laundromat. Sometimes it involves washing a few pairs of underwear or socks in a sink or a wash bag. Sometimes it involves choosing fabrics or items wisely.

I wear clean clothes while traveling. My clothes don't smell. I don't smell. I travel carry-on only. (OK, sometimes I'll check the bag on the way home. (Which last time I did that it arrived home four days after I did.) Or I've occasionally been forced to gate-check the carry-on on the way over.) I've had checked luggage lost or delayed too many times to rely on checked luggage. Why be burdened with so much stuff?

Anonymous wrote:We travel for 2-3 weeks every summer as a family to a different location (ranging from Yellowstone to Europe to Alaska), and each take a carry-on wheelie and a backpack each, no problem. Yes, we do laundry, but this is an American problem: we buy too much stuff and we pack too much stuff. You do not need an entirely new outfit everyday (yes to new/clean socks and underwear every day), but jeans, black pants, navy pants, etc can be worn more than once

Ever been to Italy in the summer?

You need fresh clothing.

We travel for 2-3 weeks every summer as a family to a different location (ranging from Yellowstone to Europe to Alaska), and each take a carry-on wheelie and a backpack each, no problem. Yes, we do laundry, but this is an American problem: we buy too much stuff and we pack too much stuff. You do not need an entirely new outfit everyday (yes to new/clean socks and underwear every day), but jeans, black pants, navy pants, etc can be worn more than once

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not about not looking boring. It's about wearing clean clothes. Please wear (relatively) clean clothes when traveling. Not just a different scarf. Please.

What? There is more than just that the one place in your house for clothes to be washed.

Why does it matter to you? I am wearing clean clothes,merino wool is amazing that way. I don't smell, my clothes aren't wrinkled. Why should it matter to you if I re-wear my clothes? Are you traveling with me? Didn't think so.

Anonymous wrote:We never travel carryon to Europe. We mostly fly places with direct flights though. Even in the US we usually check a few bags. I think the love of carryons is very overrated.

Op here.

I totally agree but I’m worried about losing checked luggage. We are flying nonstop Montreal to Rome outbound, but I’m still worried.

IME the international flights are more strict about carryon sizes than domestic.


IMO

No. IMO = In my opinion. IME = In my experience. The PP is describing their experience not an opinion.