Not sure if this has been posted before, but we have just returned from 2 weeks at WDW, and when we arrived at Downtown Disney to find that Virgin are now weighing all baggage checked in there. We were informed that any single suitcase over the 25kg allowance would be charged as excess baggage, and not be taken into account in the overall party allowance. Our party consisted of 4 adults, and one infant. Total Baggage allowance would normally be 4 x 25kg = 100kg. Our suitcases weighed 10kg, 16kg, 18kg and 30kg respectively, total = 74kg, but we were charged $35 (£17) for the large suitcase which was 5kg overweight. We were offered the chance to split the contents, but the suitcases were a set and each had been filled to its limit, so we had no choice but to pay the excess. The $35 excess is not a large amount to pay, but at the welcome meeting we were told the baggage allowance was 2 suitcases per adult, with no mention of the limit on individual bags. When we said this had not been the case in previous years we were told by the Virgin staff that they had come to realise that the baggage limits from the Downtown Check In had been abused in the past, and since introducing this policy, Virgin were 'Making huge amounts of money'. I understand that all Airlines now operate this policy, so I thought it might be useful to warn future users of this facility to keep the weight of individual bags down, possibly by buying more suitcases (which take up more room on the aircraft).
