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Soft sided cooler with hard plastic liner - carry on or checked
The way I look at it, this is probably going to send up a red flag because of the hard plastic liner, right? So figuring that, which is better - carry it on with Abby's pins / phone cords or throw it in my luggage? For some reason, I just have the feeling that if I put it in checked, it's either going to disappear or the liner will get broken. I don't know why but would TSA do that - remove stuff from our luggage?
I don't want to leave the liner home because last year when we were in Disney, we had a cooler without a liner and it got so water logged it started leaking everywhere - to the point Lenny was asked to leave a gift store. Even though the store had hardwood floors, I understand the request - puddles on highly waxed floors makes it slippery - but I want to avoid that this year, hence the new cooler with a liner.
TIA for any advice and/or experiences if anyone else carries one of these.
Does the liner come out of the cooler? if so, I would take it out, put it in a suitcase and pack stuff (socks, undies, etc) inside the liner (fold up the cooler bag). I think the xray from the top of the bag, so they should have no problem seeing through the liner. W/ stuff packed well in it should keep it from breaking.
If it's big enough, you could also use it as one of your carry-ons. You don't want to waste one of your carry-ons on something small (like six-pack size) since y'all are big packers.
I don't know why the hard plastic liner would be any problem for TSA. There's no rule about not packing a plastic container in carry-ons, and I would think your liner isn't any different. DH has a plastic box he packs his medications into, puts it into his carry-on, no problem. Not even declared.
But it will count as a carry-on item unless you put it inside something larger. Most airlines restrict each person to a carry-on plus a "personal" item -- so essentially 2 carry-on items.
I would definitely plan to use it as one of your carryons. Shouldn't be any problem at all with the liner.
Where you might need to worry would be if you did check it with anything valuable or difficult to replace inside it since it couldn't be locked. Also, you never know how hard something like that may get tossed around by baggage handlers or even fall off a zooming baggage transport. We had major damage to DH's manual wheelchair once because it obviously fell off the baggage transport cart. Did the airline cover the damage? Of course not, and it cost us over $200 to get it fixed, too. So, I wouldn't consider checking it...no way, no how.
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When we travel places in which we take a collapsible cooler with a liner, we check the bag. We have one that is a little larger and has wheels. It has flown to WDW a few times, Hawaii a few times, and St. Thomas once. It has never been bothered by the TSA and has never been damaged. We put food in it for the trip down and souvenirs for the trip home.
We have a soft sided cooler with the plastic liner and have mailed it a couple of times now filled with our liquids. Suntan lotion, shampoo etc. Also put the dreaded peanut butter (TSA) search for sure in there for shipping. On the way home we fill it with whatever we want. Last time we wrapped a fragile souvenir in a shirt and put it inside the checked luggage. It comes in so handy for the pool!
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