On reaching another country you can’t avoid customs inspection. Just follow the crowd and you’ll find it not very complicated. You have to fill out some forms and declare what you have brought along. You have to answer some questions of an immigration officer. Don’t feel afraid. Tell him the fact. Most of them in most countries are very friendly. You may have to unlock you baggage for inspection. Be willing to open it and he may not even look at it. Don’t be nervous. That is bad-very bad, for the whole bunch will be taken out and examined closely. You get a fine mess. Perhaps you can’t manage to put back all that have been taken out.
Now you are through with the most difficult part in your journey. You stand there in a foreign with your bag- big and small. It would be unwise to carry all of them along with you to the hotel. That will mean taking them all back to the airport again tomorrow. You can leave the ones that you thing are not necessary for you during your stay at the hotel. You ask for a locker, a kind of compartment where you can put your properties in and take the key with you. You have to pay some money for this, of course. But it is less expensive and much more convenient than taking those bags to your hotel.