Lightweight ideas, hints and tips

[Kitsilano]

Up to £600 for a small suitcase Crazy

Believe me, you only have to lose a checked bag ONCE to wish that you had everything as carry-on. It took 8 days over New Year to have Iberia trace and deliver my bag that was 'lost' between Heathrow-Malaga, which required me to be 'on location for delivery' at any time (so goodbye car rental and touring in the interim). PLUS, in order to make a claim ("bag is 'missing' until 30 days, then is described as 'lost' "), you have to have not only a fully itemised list of the contents but also receipts for everything in there, otherwise no payment above bare minimum. I'm guessing that 0.001% of travellers make an itemised list of their luggage contents. This is the policy of both airlines and travel insurance companies.

In that respect, just any money spent on a quality, warrantied, repairable and effective/compressible carry-on suitcase is worth it!

Happy Traveks!

 

[Deleted account 240831001]

I had a bag go awol between Schipol and Birmingham on the 23rd December one year when I was going home for 3 days in the middle of a project. I told the lost baggage muppets that whoever was delivering my bag the next day (they’d lost a trolley full of bags) to call me because I had to go into our office in the morning and they may need to drop the bag there.

I’d been home from work about 10 minutes when the courier arrived with my bag and when I asked what happened to the phone call he told me I could fuck off if I thought he was messing about on Xmas Eve and should think myself lucky I’d got it or would have been waiting until the 27th. The only tip he got was to fuck off quickly because I wasn’t happy.

 

[Kitsilano]

. The only tip he got was to fuck off quickly because I wasn’t happy.

I can see that you have a way with words!!

 

[Deleted account 240831001]

I can see that you have a way with words!!

Subtlety is my speciality, especially when I’m tired and pissed off

 

[Arsey]

Up to £600 for a small suitcase Crazy

Might be crazy if you only dig it out the loft for the annual jaunt to Fuengirola…….but if you travel regularly and don’t need anything larger , you will never buy another case again .
I must have spent at least three times that on cases over the last thirty five years until I bought my Briggs and Riley bag a decade ago.
The lifetime warranty means just that .
If it breaks they’ll fix it for nothing . If it wears out they’ll replace it free of charge .
Hand it down to your kids .
Crazy ? I think not . Bloody bargain.

 

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

It can apply just as easily to bods who stay in hotels, but still use massive panniers and cart their entire weighty lives with them

You called?

 

[peter56]

Believe me, you only have to lose a checked bag ONCE to wish that you had everything as carry-on. It took 8 days over New Year to have Iberia trace and deliver my bag that was 'lost' between Heathrow-Malaga, which required me to be 'on location for delivery' at any time (so goodbye car rental and touring in the interim). PLUS, in order to make a claim ("bag is 'missing' until 30 days, then is described as 'lost' "), you have to have not only a fully itemised list of the contents but also receipts for everything in there, otherwise no payment above bare minimum. I'm guessing that 0.001% of travellers make an itemised list of their luggage contents. This is the policy of both airlines and travel insurance companies.

In that respect, just any money spent on a quality, warrantied, repairable and effective/compressible carry-on suitcase is worth it!

Happy Traveks!

Expected reaction from people spending far to much money on a case. I am talking about carry on lightweight luggage nothing else. So should never get lost. Somehow its gone slightly off subject. But that's your choice and why not if you've got the money

 

[peter56]

Might be crazy if you only dig it out the loft for the annual jaunt to Fuengirola…….but if you travel regularly and don’t need anything larger , you will never buy another case again .
I must have spent at least three times that on cases over the last thirty five years until I bought my Briggs and Riley bag a decade ago.
The lifetime warranty means just that .
If it breaks they’ll fix it for nothing . If it wears out they’ll replace it free of charge .
Hand it down to your kids .
Crazy ? I think not . Bloody bargain.

We will have to agree to not agree. Defiantly not a bargain.
There is a sensible middle ground on price, just saying.

 

[Kitsilano]

Expected reaction from people spending far to much money on a case. I am talking about carry on lightweight luggage nothing else. So should never get lost. Somehow its gone slightly off subject. But that's your choice and why not if you've got the money

 

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

Packing cubes?
I'm with your dad Richard, what's the matter with carrier bags?

 

[Deleted account 240831001]

Expected reaction from people spending far to much money on a case. I am talking about carry on lightweight luggage nothing else. So should never get lost. Somehow its gone slightly off subject. But that's your choice and why not if you've got the money

If it was your average punter simply buying a cabin bag for occasional trips I’d agree but in his case D) it’s a tool used in his line of work and I’ve spent more than that on a lot of tools that I use less frequently than he uses his cabin luggage.

You wouldn’t want to see the bloke flying the plane taking you over the Atlantic carrying his smalls in a Lidl carrier bag would you?

 

[peter56]

If it was your average punter simply buying a cabin bag for occasional trips I’d agree but in his case D) it’s a tool used in his line of work and I’ve spent more than that on a lot of tools that I use less frequently than he uses his cabin luggage.

You wouldn’t want to see the bloke flying the plane taking you over the Atlantic carrying his smalls in a Lidl carrier bag would you?

Go commando save on luggage

 

[Arsey]

We will have to agree to not agree. Defiantly not a bargain.
There is a sensible middle ground on price, just saying.

So buy something for half that price, use it until it breaks, then replace it with the same and you’ve already spent the same as the more expensive case.
You can’t take the same size International carry on bag on say an easyJet Airbus as you can a long haul wide body, so it will have to go in the hold.That’s when it’s more likely to get damaged.
But you’re right, we will have to agree to disagree.
It’s a bit like many on here spend £20k plus on a bike and then fit it with Ali Express shite to save money….just saying.

 

[Mzokk]

Go commando save on luggage

Yip save up all of your old knickers and t shirts and bin them on your travels come back with less luggage.

 

[peter56]

So buy something for half that price, use it until it breaks, then replace it with the same and you’ve already spent the same as the more expensive case.
You can’t take the same size International carry on bag on say an easyJet Airbus as you can a long haul wide body, so it will have to go in the hold.That’s when it’s more likely to get damaged.
But you’re right, we will have to agree to disagree.
It’s a bit like many on here spend £20k plus on a bike and then fit it with Ali Express shite to save money….just saying.

Yes £20k on a bike I would never do. So maybe that says I am a skinflint. I can live with that. Each to there own

 

[Wapping]

I do the odd bit of travelling for work and have purchased numerous charging devices over the years , including many Scross multi adapters etc.
This is the current one in use right now

Not the smallest but very robust and fast charging . Let’s me charge everything all at once .

They do a smaller version with one less USB-C port but slightly slower charging.

Following on from Biggles’ tip and knowing that he is a man of infinite wit and wisdom, I bought the four port version. It is, I must say, quite neat. Better than my Skross? Who knows but I’ll give it a go, not least as I already have long USB C leads, which I can use.

 

[Wapping]

Following on from Biggles’ tip and knowing that he is a man of infinite wit and wisdom, I bought the four port version. It is, I must say, quite neat. Better than my Skross? Who knows but I’ll give it a go, not least as I already have long USB C leads, which I can use.

One vaguely useful thing about the four port version, is that (at 100 W) it will power my work laptop, without a annoying but harmless, warning notices popping up every two minutes that I am using a non-Dell approved power source.

The device is really good with 10 foot Anker leads, which get around the problem that many power sockets are nowhere near where you actually need them to be.

I think it’s going to replace my trusted Skross, though I’ll still take one Continental to UK adaptor with me, if only to lend to bods who forget theirs. Generous to a fault, I is.

 

[dean0n0]

I'm sure I saw someone, somewhere, looking for one with foldable prongs..
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B7N4D...&ascsubtag=2511495201&ref_=nav_custrec_signin
Seems to get good reviews.

 

[Wapping]

I'm sure I saw someone, somewhere, looking for one with foldable prongs..

Seems to get good reviews.

That was maybe me, as I have developed an illogical but passionate (bordering on pathological) hated of UK bloody great prong things, sticking out of travel devices. In fact, I don’t limit it to travel devices. I dislike them, full stop.

It was P. J. O'Rourke in his very funny 1980’s ‘Holidays in Hell’ book, which first turned me into a raving monster over British plugs. He described them as some sort of Medieval or devilish torture instrument, coupled to electricity that will fry you. Being an American, he was not far wrong.

 

[dean0n0]

Being an American, he was not far wrong.

Whinging wimp!