Edinburgh Festival performers shocked to find budget train’s ‘airline style’ luggage limit
The IndependentSign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Budget operator Lumo trains caps its travellers’ belongings at “a maximum of ONE medium sized suitcase and ONE small bag, rucksack or holdall” per person. “I expected me and my case might be confined to the vestibule next to the toilet, but not that they would leave it on the platform.” She was first alerted to Lumo’s tight luggage limit in a Facebook group for performers, where some had realised too late that they had had to pay excess baggage charges for anything beyond a medium sized case, having planned to take everything from instruments to props. open image in gallery The Facebook group post that first alerted performers to the luggage limit In the comments, another performer told the group that he had travelled on Lumo and found they “don’t have luggage racks”, and ended up paying £20 per bag to send his luggage separately via a courier company. Ms Leyton who is travelling up to appear in Pedestrian and Comedy Arcade at the festival, adds: “It’s frustrating because I had booked ahead to get the best possible deal - I literally had a calendar reminder set - as Edinburgh in general is so expensive.” She looked into the train operator’s own “LumoLuggage” option where you can pay more to have your luggage couriered separately, but ultimately decided not to risk being separated from her belongings.
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