How to Pick the Perfect Carry On Luggage Travel Tips
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Date: 2019-09-05
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Darryl K
My 0. 02. I travel a lot with only a softside rollaboard and a backpack. The backpack holds my electronics, toiletry bag, packable jacket, refillable water bottle, and a small tupperware for snacks that I fill with nuts from the airline lounge: . Outside pocket has pens, small man-purse to hang around your neck and hold all documents on your person while traveling (important things like wallet, passport, cell phone, etc. will go with you when you go to the toilet on a plane, train, bus. When I sit down on a plane, train, bus etc. for comfort I take my wallet out of my pocket and put it into the little man-purse or neck back along with my passport and cell phone. Then I put the strap around my neck or cross body. This way its on my person and will go with me everywhere. This seems to work better than those that clip to your belt as the belt ones get in the way of comfortably sitting sometimes. I like a 2 wheeled 22x14x9 roll-aboard with good feet that opens on the top. Nothing sensitive like electronics go in here because it is softside and may have to be squeezed or checked. A lot of airlines are weighing your carry-ons and if it is over 7Kgs (around 15lbs) it gets checked (unless you are a premium customer with a gold or platinum status, these guys get away with a lot. The reason for the 2 wheels is that a spinner or softer wheeled duffle will not stand with the backpack on the handle bar. It falls over. But a 2-wheeled suitcase with a sturdy footing will stand on its own while you are at the ticket counter or cashier at the cafe. The reason for top open is that open it takes up half the space of a middle open luggage. Lots of non-western hotels don't give you a lot of square feet and if you open your suitcase there is no room to walk around the bed. If you travel with someone and both of you open your cases even worse. Now I would recommend a spinner luggage for anyone who CAN'T carry in one hand the luggage in front of them while going down the airplane aisle. The other hand holds the backpack or you will nail the heads of the folks sitting on the aisle seats. I've been hit multiple times on every flight. Just my. 02.
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My 0. 02. I travel a lot with only a softside rollaboard and a backpack. The backpack holds my electronics, toiletry bag, packable jacket, refillable water bottle, and a small tupperware for snacks that I fill with nuts from the airline lounge: . Outside pocket has pens, small man-purse to hang around your neck and hold all documents on your person while traveling (important things like wallet, passport, cell phone, etc. will go with you when you go to the toilet on a plane, train, bus. When I sit down on a plane, train, bus etc. for comfort I take my wallet out of my pocket and put it into the little man-purse or neck back along with my passport and cell phone. Then I put the strap around my neck or cross body. This way its on my person and will go with me everywhere. This seems to work better than those that clip to your belt as the belt ones get in the way of comfortably sitting sometimes. I like a 2 wheeled 22x14x9 roll-aboard with good feet that opens on the top. Nothing sensitive like electronics go in here because it is softside and may have to be squeezed or checked. A lot of airlines are weighing your carry-ons and if it is over 7Kgs (around 15lbs) it gets checked (unless you are a premium customer with a gold or platinum status, these guys get away with a lot. The reason for the 2 wheels is that a spinner or softer wheeled duffle will not stand with the backpack on the handle bar. It falls over. But a 2-wheeled suitcase with a sturdy footing will stand on its own while you are at the ticket counter or cashier at the cafe. The reason for top open is that open it takes up half the space of a middle open luggage. Lots of non-western hotels don't give you a lot of square feet and if you open your suitcase there is no room to walk around the bed. If you travel with someone and both of you open your cases even worse. Now I would recommend a spinner luggage for anyone who CAN'T carry in one hand the luggage in front of them while going down the airplane aisle. The other hand holds the backpack or you will nail the heads of the folks sitting on the aisle seats. I've been hit multiple times on every flight. Just my. 02.
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FaerieDust
Smart suitcases are way too heavy to be practical - most of things they do you can do yourself (weigh your luggage, buy a powerbank. Idk if there's an independent solution for tracking lost luggage, but I definitely don't think that one feature is worth the weight penalty of a smart suitcase. Personally, I will not even consider a carry-on bag that weighs more than 2 kg. My current suitcase weighs 1. 69 kg, was fairly cheap (50-ish on sale right now, and has lasted for far more years than I'd ever expected. It's a soft shell bag with three exterior pockets (great for my liquids, umbrella, snacks, toothbrush, hairbrush, and random stuff I want easy access to but that don't warrant a spot in my crossbody bag, and I cannot overstate how great it is that the bag itself doesn't waste a lot of the allowed weight. Not checking your new bag's empty weight is imo one of the biggest mistakes you can make when buying any bag in general, but suitcases and travel bags in particular
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Smart suitcases are way too heavy to be practical - most of things they do you can do yourself (weigh your luggage, buy a powerbank. Idk if there's an independent solution for tracking lost luggage, but I definitely don't think that one feature is worth the weight penalty of a smart suitcase. Personally, I will not even consider a carry-on bag that weighs more than 2 kg. My current suitcase weighs 1. 69 kg, was fairly cheap (50-ish on sale right now, and has lasted for far more years than I'd ever expected. It's a soft shell bag with three exterior pockets (great for my liquids, umbrella, snacks, toothbrush, hairbrush, and random stuff I want easy access to but that don't warrant a spot in my crossbody bag, and I cannot overstate how great it is that the bag itself doesn't waste a lot of the allowed weight. Not checking your new bag's empty weight is imo one of the biggest mistakes you can make when buying any bag in general, but suitcases and travel bags in particular
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Char Lotte
I recently got a taste of one bag travel during a 3 day class trip and even though I have a carry-on size backpack (Osprey Farpoint 40) I used my 22 l school backpack. At the departure, I could just get into the bus and was done whilst the others had to wait to put their luggage into the cargo part of the bus. When we wanted to go back home, the bus came too late and as it was rainy, we got the choice to leave our luggage where we were waiting and go back into the accomodation. I would never wanna leave my luggage in the rain and I didn't have to as I had it all in my backpack. I can't even describe the awesomeness of how it feels having all your stuff with you (no I've got to remember to take XYZ that I have put somewhere. When we arrived in our home town, I could just grab my bag and go home whilst the others had to wait for the bus driver to unload their luggage. That felt really awesome.
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I recently got a taste of one bag travel during a 3 day class trip and even though I have a carry-on size backpack (Osprey Farpoint 40) I used my 22 l school backpack. At the departure, I could just get into the bus and was done whilst the others had to wait to put their luggage into the cargo part of the bus. When we wanted to go back home, the bus came too late and as it was rainy, we got the choice to leave our luggage where we were waiting and go back into the accomodation. I would never wanna leave my luggage in the rain and I didn't have to as I had it all in my backpack. I can't even describe the awesomeness of how it feels having all your stuff with you (no I've got to remember to take XYZ that I have put somewhere. When we arrived in our home town, I could just grab my bag and go home whilst the others had to wait for the bus driver to unload their luggage. That felt really awesome.
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Michael Strässle
I have the Bach Travelstar 40 backpack as my carry on. What is usually enough. It has not a very sophisticatedinterior, but that makes it more flexible how you organise it. My camera (M9 with 4 Lenses) I have in a kind of utility belt. So it is technically a part of clothing. On Swiss or in Asia I had never problem with this set up. I never try easy jet or raynair so I can't tell if the accept my photo belt as a part of clothing. Sometimes I travel with a dry bag as my luggage check in. This very uncomfortable to carry, but when you transport things only one way, the dry bag need almost no space when empty.
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I have the Bach Travelstar 40 backpack as my carry on. What is usually enough. It has not a very sophisticatedinterior, but that makes it more flexible how you organise it. My camera (M9 with 4 Lenses) I have in a kind of utility belt. So it is technically a part of clothing. On Swiss or in Asia I had never problem with this set up. I never try easy jet or raynair so I can't tell if the accept my photo belt as a part of clothing. Sometimes I travel with a dry bag as my luggage check in. This very uncomfortable to carry, but when you transport things only one way, the dry bag need almost no space when empty.
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Tom Servo
Does it really save time money and stress though? Plenty of airlines have free checkin and you don't have to spend half an hour squabbling around for overhead compartment space ten rows away from your seat against the other 300 people on the flight who are doing the exact same thing. Smartest move is to just put a 'fragile' tag on your bag when you check it in. Fragile items are typically the last ones put onto the plane, which means they're typically the first ones off the plane and on the carousel, or get sent to the special items counter so you can bypass the carousel entirely.
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Does it really save time money and stress though? Plenty of airlines have free checkin and you don't have to spend half an hour squabbling around for overhead compartment space ten rows away from your seat against the other 300 people on the flight who are doing the exact same thing. Smartest move is to just put a 'fragile' tag on your bag when you check it in. Fragile items are typically the last ones put onto the plane, which means they're typically the first ones off the plane and on the carousel, or get sent to the special items counter so you can bypass the carousel entirely.
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Natasha Cane
One plus of having a soft bag is it can be squeezed through small overhead openings. I was once flying in a Saab 340 that was completely full due to another flight being cancelled, and the poor flight attendant took nearly 20 minutes trying to fit people's carry on luggage into the overhead. Everything that was soft was fairly easy to manipulate through the incredibly narrow opening, but the hard shell baggage just wasn't going to fit. She was quite annoyed at the check in staff as they should have known that those bags wouldn't have fit, but they allowed them on anyway.
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One plus of having a soft bag is it can be squeezed through small overhead openings. I was once flying in a Saab 340 that was completely full due to another flight being cancelled, and the poor flight attendant took nearly 20 minutes trying to fit people's carry on luggage into the overhead. Everything that was soft was fairly easy to manipulate through the incredibly narrow opening, but the hard shell baggage just wasn't going to fit. She was quite annoyed at the check in staff as they should have known that those bags wouldn't have fit, but they allowed them on anyway.
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Kay Flip
4 wheel spinner luggage is the way to go. Why would you need to carry your luggage up hills or cobble stone streets? Take a cab from the airport straight to your hotel, store your luggage in your room or in the luggage storage room when you check out and take a small backpack with you. Those giant backpacks are depressing. Unless you're super broke and can't take cabs and are camping in the wilderness for months on end, there's no reason to carry a giant backpack that will destroy your back and ruin your trip.
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4 wheel spinner luggage is the way to go. Why would you need to carry your luggage up hills or cobble stone streets? Take a cab from the airport straight to your hotel, store your luggage in your room or in the luggage storage room when you check out and take a small backpack with you. Those giant backpacks are depressing. Unless you're super broke and can't take cabs and are camping in the wilderness for months on end, there's no reason to carry a giant backpack that will destroy your back and ruin your trip.
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Paul Ho
Herschel is awful for travel, especially that backpack. Rucksack design with finicky hardware just isn't ideal. Easy to access wide opening, but no organization, it's just a sack. The magnetic clasps are very cumbersome, and that joke of a front pocket fits all of a pen in it. Worse, when filled to capacity, the back rounds out against you and just makes you sweaty. The weekender duffle has plastic hardware, I give it 2 trips max before you start seeing problems.
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Herschel is awful for travel, especially that backpack. Rucksack design with finicky hardware just isn't ideal. Easy to access wide opening, but no organization, it's just a sack. The magnetic clasps are very cumbersome, and that joke of a front pocket fits all of a pen in it. Worse, when filled to capacity, the back rounds out against you and just makes you sweaty. The weekender duffle has plastic hardware, I give it 2 trips max before you start seeing problems.
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Enrico Enriquez
Thanks for sharing this video and your travelling tips. Just a quick one, do you always carry your passport with you when you do daytrips when you travel or you leAve it in the hotel safe? Perhaps you can make a video on hacks or trouble shooting when you experience some theft or such while you travel. i experience such in barcelona and lucky i have some money and my passport stashed somewhere on my bag. Will be waiting for your reply.
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Thanks for sharing this video and your travelling tips. Just a quick one, do you always carry your passport with you when you do daytrips when you travel or you leAve it in the hotel safe? Perhaps you can make a video on hacks or trouble shooting when you experience some theft or such while you travel. i experience such in barcelona and lucky i have some money and my passport stashed somewhere on my bag. Will be waiting for your reply.
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Eliza K
Flew with EasyJet from Prague to Amsterdam yesterday. Everyone had a roller bag that had to go into the overhead compartments which meant that I had to put my backpack under the seat in front of me (with my jacket and vest) which left me with no room for my legs so please stop recommending to people to take more stuff as carry on luggage - it's very annoying for your fellow travelers; )
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Flew with EasyJet from Prague to Amsterdam yesterday. Everyone had a roller bag that had to go into the overhead compartments which meant that I had to put my backpack under the seat in front of me (with my jacket and vest) which left me with no room for my legs so please stop recommending to people to take more stuff as carry on luggage - it's very annoying for your fellow travelers; )
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