Why are you people getting your bags ransacked? I haven't had my bags searched for a very long time.
Last time I was asked if I owned a place in Belize, but I just raised an eyebrow and said no, I don't (which I don't). I know it probably looks funny since I have so much luggage with me, but I've got all my dive gear and I pack like the princess that I am.
As for my bottle of booze problem, I've got a special box. A couple of trips ago, I bought a bottle at duty free in BZ and once at Houston transfer, they wanted to take it away from me. After a little discussion, it turned out that all I had to do was go over to the Continental counter and buy the special box (for $20) to pack my $8 bottle of booze. The Continental rep, set my bottle inside the box, taped it all up, slapped a luggage barcode on it, handed me a luggage tag with matching code, my box went off down the conveyer and I went and caught my plane home to Canada. Once in Canada, my large bags all arrived well before my bottle box came in at a different area, but it was in one piece.
On my last trip to BZ, I took that special box with me and used it again for the bottle's trip home. And I'll do the same again. Guess I'll just have to make sure to pack my Houston duty free bottle in that box and make sure it is safely wrapped in soft stuff before letting Tropic baggage handlers get hold of my luggage.
I don't know about the rest of you, but my luggage has made it around the world a couple of times with only minor nicks but any time they come off of a Tropic flight, there's usually some serious damage or other. I accept this because I take so much luggage and I know that Tropic makes sure we all get all of our bags, and so it has to be stuffed in those little planes somehow.
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