Yeah, it literally pays to look at the airline board fee pages (some are more up-to-date than others) and compare with what others say on fbook. I think either Emirates or maybe Qatar was an example of this: crazy fees on paper, but in practice almost everyone says they rarely asked for them at check in provided you were just checking in the board bag.
You have to be pretty discriminating with fbook and boards. Remember what Jaffa said: "If it sounds too good to be true, it is the beginning of a scam."
Just be vigilant in checking them for dings, evidence they've been snapped, etc. Be careful if you're trying to sell boards too. The usual crap with people trying to bid you down, but those locals God love them, they'll pull last minute scams to avoid paying agreed on. Last time for me it was sun bleached 10,000 IDR notes that made them look like the other 100,000 IDR notes in a bundle. I admire the effort that went into that and I should have read the initial shady signals and checked the notes more thoroughly, but jeeez How'd the trip go overall one0one? Anxious to hear!
I see that some people pay more for luggage than the fares.. I figure must be better to rock up and try to pay for trip at the counter with luggage.. that might be the go so I know if its cost effective
theres some good priced boards over there on the fbook pages.. might take no boards
js raging bull @ 6'3 might be better than my 6'6 @ 39litres .. see how the fundraising goes in the next few weeks
surfed my custom twinny the other day from local shaper on head high waves.. what a weapon of a board
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