Getting the Wrestlemania Chair back home?

Nadet

Hi guys

Booked the Platinum WM package so get to keep the chair. Anyone done this before, and if so did the chair fit in your normal luggage or did you pack it/send it separately?

Any advice appreciated )

Kane-N-Nite

This is a speciality of mine.
1. Don't ship/ Fed Ex it. Completely un necessary.
2. No bag I know of will hold this
3. Just bubble wrap it & use it as separate luggage. Simple as. May not even cost anything extra.

CMpunked

Kane-N-Nite wrote: »

This is a speciality of mine.
1. Don't ship/ Fed Ex it. Completely un necessary.
2. No bag I know of will hold this
3. Just bubble wrap it & use it as separate luggage. Simple as. May not even cost anything extra.

Speciality is right! :P

Kane-N-Nite

$378 well spent, but not to be spent again.

CMpunked

I actually did have a question about the chair thing I've been wondering about.

Is it a simple case of when the event is finished you pick up the chair and go home, or how does it work?

Kane-N-Nite

I wish you could just pick it up.
All rows of chairs are tied together. At the end of the show you have to get your ticket signed by an employee, then they untie your chair. This can take longer than you might imagine.

CMpunked

That's just what I was thinking, are you assured to get that seat, or just one from that section?

How long does it take?

Kane-N-Nite

You're pretty much assured your own seat. By the time someone gets round to you can take 10-20 minutes. They do have alot of chairs to get through.

y2jdogg

Here is a recap of the notes I posted in the WM 26 thread, on how to wrap/ship the chair home:

From the WM 26 Thread:
"As most others have said, use bubble wrap, and a lot of packing tape. I bought a box for a chair last year, and ended up never using it, since it was so big, and once I wrapped my chair, it was more than enough.

Just go to a UPS store, and buy the "big" bubble wrap, enough to cover the entire chair (sold by the "foot" I believe.) Then buy one or two things of "packing tape" (one will probably be enough,) and tape it really tight, so the tape is acting as protection as well.

Not sure if anyone else has pointers how to wrap it, but I found the best way to wrap the chair, is to put the bubble wrap sheet vertically over the chair, as if you were standing the chair upwards closed, and where the bubble wrap is open on the sides of the chair. Then use the packing tape, to tightly tape the bubble wrap closed, and the sides of the chair. (Just pull the bubble wrap tightly, before taping, but not too tight.) If you have any bubble wrap left over, you may want wrap some more, around the top of the chair. Then with the left over tape, tightly wrap it across the chair, vertically and horizontally, which acts as a "protective cover" for the chair.

Another thing you may want to do, is include a piece of paper with your name/address on it, inside the bubble wrap, incase the chair gets lost, and get some fragile stickers from UPS as well, to put on the outside of the bubble wrap.

Depending on your airline, just ask, when you depart for the Rumble, to make sure the chair is fine to check as luggage on the way back home. You can also tell the airline, that it is a fragile piece of luggage, when you check your chair-in as luggage."

This year, the package hotel had free bubble wrap for the chairs, though it was the "basic" small bubble wrap, and not the "large" industrial bubble wrap. The hotel also had shipping service, to ship the chairs home for you, but at a cost. This was all done through the hotel's "business center."

I have seen some people just check their chairs as luggage at the airport, with no bubble wrap on them, though I would not want to take a risk without the bubble wrap.

CMpunked

You can imagine luggage handlers seeing it and taking pictures with it and looking at it.
I know that happens with hockey sticks and other stuff that goes through at Dublin airport.

Kane-N-Nite

There's not much there to take a pic with. Unless you're being a rebel, most chairs I see are completely covered with paper / bubblewrap to the extent that you wouldn't know it's a collective chair. I will know for next year to cover every inch in bubble wrap & not just the padding.

y2jdogg

Kane-N-Nite wrote: »

There's not much there to take a pic with. Unless you're being a rebel, most chairs I see are completely covered with paper / bubblewrap to the extent that you wouldn't know it's a collective chair. I will know for next year to cover every inch in bubble wrap & not just the padding.

I wrap my chair so well, that usually when I walk through the airport on the way home, people keep saying "nice boogie board," and I don't mean one person, I mean multiple people all over the airport.

Kane-N-Nite

I know that reaction. It's an odd thing to have come through a conveyor belt. I got worried this year as my chair was the last thing to come out. I was getting quite nervous, but I was majorly relieved when I saw it come out.