To get into your luggage when the zipper breaks, just before you buy a new luggage set at the airport.
When I was in grad school the key broke off in the lock of my apartment. This was long before cellphones, and I didn’t have the number of my landlord. I used my knife to unscrew a window (I was on the first floor) and get in. I seldom use the knife except to open packages, but the other blades are real handy.
I don’t think I’ve ever bought anything at a cruise ship store. Beyond that, the places they take you to cool your heels during tours also sell overpriced crap, with kickbacks to the ship, no doubt. I buy bookmarks there (I collect them) but nothing else.
Yup. $3000 is an entry level designer bag these days.
Speak for yourself peasant.
Not stuff I buy. But I’ve seen people buying that stuff.
Interesting. My husband was in a discussion with about a dozen people at work, and somebody decided they needed a pocket knife for something. I think that was the only person out of the dozen who didn’t have a pocket knife on them.
And once you’re used to having one on you all the time, you feel naked without it. Hubby’s pocket knife is often easier to get to than my nail clippers or pocket knife which is buried in my purse.
And they make great gifts.
Regarding shops on cruise ships (not to mention the cruise line shops at the places where the ships stop) - we went through every shop on one of the sea days. Didn’t find a single thing worth buying not even a t-shirt. When we wandered into the watch store on the ship, the sales person there had never even seen my husband’s watch, even though he’s selling the brand. The sales people on cruise ships are not going to have the same knowledge about what they are selling as the sales person at a typical shop. I would expect the staff at any airport shops to have more experience than that person on the cruise ship.
There were people on the cruise ship looking for (and buying!) luggage scales because they bought so much stuff and were worried about overweight charges. Which is another thing I don’t understand. If you can buy all that stuff, why worry about overweight charges?
Couple of reasons - first, luggage scales are pretty cheap. I just looked and the most expensive one I saw was $25. Second, overweight bag charges are pretty expensive ( as much as $200 for 20 lbs overweight. ) Third, I’d prefer to do the " this bag is 58 lbs and this one is 40 lbs so which items do I move?" in my room rather than in front of the bag check like I did last week.
I had a shoe failure while heading to my flight at PHL. Fortunately there is a Johnston & Murphy shoe store in the shopping area of the airport and I was able to grab a replacement pair of shoes. Not exactly a high-end retailer (I think), but definitely higher end that my usual store (Famous Footwear).
These are the days of more universal currencies (like Euros), and easy exchanges to dollars, or the next currency you need on a trip.
So we were surprised, near the end of our time in Morocco, that it’s illegal to take Dirham out of the country, and even if we had, there was really no way to convert it without losing a lot.
We had fistfulls of cash because almost every place we ate or bought stuff wanted cash. That’s true all over Morocco, and the lines at ATMs (well, at the only ATMs that aren’t broken) are insanely long.
Luckily, we realized this a couple of days before we left, so we had some nice dinners before we left.
But yeah, that was us at the airport shops, buying tea and fabrics and silly little souvenirs before our flight was called.