VS to charge for Check in Chill out from 01MAR10

From 1 March passengers wishing to Check In Chill out will now be charged $10

VH passengers will be given a complimentary Check In Chill Out voucher as part of their holiday package.

Upper Class and FC Gold will still be free of charge.

Not the greatest news, another cut to service and a new revenue stream for VS. Also really short notice on this and there is nothing about honouring the free service for customers who booked before this news came out.

The second piece of bad news I bring today! - Ed

Makes it the same 'deal' as Downtown Disney Check-in over in Orlando then. I'd happily pay the $10 to use DTD check-in if I was not in UC - can only assume that Check in Chill Out is just as convenient?

What is Checkin in Chill out ? Never heard of it.

[Neil]

quote:Originally posted by hackneyguy
What is Checkin in Chill out ? Never heard of it.


Available in certain Caribbean resorts, allows you to check in at your hotel so you get longer at the hotel rather than spending time in the airport.

quote:Originally posted by hackneyguy
What is Checkin in Chill out ? Never heard of it.


Check in Chill out is available at some (if not all) Carribean resorts. You complete check in at your hotel, your luggage is whisked off to the airport and you spend the rest of your time chilling out in the hotel pool or bar etc before leaving for your flight home.
Good value even at $10 charge if you ask me.

quote:Originally posted by hackneyguy
What is Checkin in Chill out ? Never heard of it.


A wandering band of VS employees pitch up at your hotel, check you in, dispense boarding cards and take your luggage away. The theory is more time at the beach / pool, less time at the check in. In my experience it just shifts the amount of time you spend checking from time at the airport to time sat in a hotel lobby.

Paul

Thanks guys - wow three responses in around a minute, now I know.

[Neil]

quote:Originally posted by hackneyguy
Thanks guys - wow three responses in around a minute, now I know.


Aren't we an efficient bunch [:D]

quote:Originally posted by pjh
quote:Originally posted by hackneyguy
What is Checkin in Chill out ? Never heard of it.


A wandering band of VS employees pitch up at your hotel, check you in, dispense boarding cards and take your luggage away. The theory is more time at the beach / pool, less time at the check in. In my experience it just shifts the amount of time you spend checking from time at the airport to time sat in a hotel lobby.

Paul


That's pretty much it - you'd look daft sitting on the beach/by the pool fully clothed ready for a flight as well as getting rather hot rather quickly!

Suppose if you like the food in a particular restaurant in the resort it gives you time to have one last meal, which is one upside if my experience with airport catering is anything to go by.

And very well informed buch!

[mitchja]

Just as well VH aren't going to charge you as they normally force you to use this service [:(!]

Regards

quote:Originally posted by pjh
quote:Originally posted by hackneyguy
What is Checkin in Chill out ? Never heard of it.


A wandering band of VS employees pitch up at your hotel, check you in, dispense boarding cards and take your luggage away. The theory is more time at the beach / pool, less time at the check in. In my experience it just shifts the amount of time you spend checking from time at the airport to time sat in a hotel lobby.

Paul


No sitting in the lobby for us. We spent the four hours between the Chill in Check out and the time we had to leave for the airport in the pool[y]

Pretty bad deal if you ask me. When we were in Barbados, we said we didn't want to do it but were then told we had to as we wouldn't be able to take out luggage on the coach to the airport. Only way to get round it was to make our own way to the airport, but as we had already paid for transfers seemed a bit pointless.

And sitting on the beach in Barbados dressed prepared for a typical UK early morning in November wasn't much fun...

quote:Originally posted by hairy114
Pretty bad deal if you ask me. When we were in Barbados, we said we didn't want to do it but were then told we had to as we wouldn't be able to take out luggage on the coach to the airport. Only way to get round it was to make our own way to the airport, but as we had already paid for transfers seemed a bit pointless.

And sitting on the beach in Barbados dressed prepared for a typical UK early morning in November wasn't much fun...


I've booked private departure transfers to the airport. Does anyone know if they will still try and force me to do Check In Chill Out?

Like the majority, I'm not looking forward to sweating the proverbials off in clothes ready for English weather!

quote:Originally posted by Jeffers555
quote:Originally posted by pjh
quote:Originally posted by hackneyguy
What is Checkin in Chill out ? Never heard of it.


A wandering band of VS employees pitch up at your hotel, check you in, dispense boarding cards and take your luggage away. The theory is more time at the beach / pool, less time at the check in. In my experience it just shifts the amount of time you spend checking from time at the airport to time sat in a hotel lobby.

Paul


No sitting in the lobby for us. We spent the four hours between the Chill in Check out and the time we had to leave for the airport in the pool[y]


As did we. What I meant was I don't think in total it saves any time, it just shifts it, particularly if you're in PE or UC. In our experience it took just as long to use the Check In Chill Out at the hotel as it would have done to use the regular check in at the airport, as there were 4 or 5 groups to be dealt with.

Edited to Add: perhaps though I'm being unfair and this is actually one of those schemes that does produce a greater good in that it takes pressure off at the airport..so the fact it takes the same time at the hotel as at the airport is actually because the service is reducing the demands at the latter.

Paul