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I recently travelled with the new style rolling duffle bag instead of a conventional suitcase. It’s certainly lighter than conventional suitcases and being narrower goes through ticket barriers without problem. These duffle bags have lots of zipped pockets. So sometimes I use small cable ties on all except one with a combination lock which has small utility knife set in for cutting ties. (I have seen many shrink wrapped bags have the wrapping sliced to allow the baggage handlers to grab handles.)
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However one problem is that unless the toiletry contents are well protected they suffer from squashing. This has prompted me to post of my travel experiences and get comments on other people’s travel tips.
I try to only travel with screw top toiletry containers., Flip top ones are easily squashed squeezing out a nice mess. Failing that, I tape the lids on. I use minimum size containers.
I use plastic bags to group clothes so if I have to dive into the bag quickly for something or the event of bag searches, it’s easy to repack.
For flying I only wear trouser pockets with horizontal tops. (I have lost an ipod from a side opening pocket,) Less pick pocket prone with a hanky (clean) or something useless shoved on top. I travel wearing a shirt with flap pockets in which I can carry my passport and boarding card: secure but easy to pull out.
One of my pet hates is people who bob and down all flight to get to the overhead lockers. That used to be me. So now: within my walk-on luggage I have a small bag with flight essentials. This gets transferred immediately to the seat pockets.
• Spectacles, ipod and head phone, I use a two pin adaptor so my headphones can plug directly in to airline seat.
• ear plugs and tissues
• book
• fold-up toothbrush and toothpaste
• pen for usual immigration cards
I often buy a liqueur miniature that goes with walk-on toiletries as toothpaste but is transferred to the mini bag after security checks to ‘sweeten’ my in-flight coffee.
Shoes go into a day pack at the bottom of the main bag
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If you are a frequent traveler always use the bust quality luggage. I have used Samsonite for many years; it’s not a fashion statement, it purely that from a practical perspective I have never been let down. On the one occasion that a handle broke on my oyster suitcase, after 15 years hard toil, the handle was replaced free of charge.

To avoid having to fill in Thai arrival and departure cards in flight, I keep a stock of these and complete them prior to flying. The same goes for other regular Asian destinations.

I also have a small bag which can be removed quickly from my briefcase and contains all of the small items that I might need in flight; pen, earphones, IPad/Phone USB lead, Tylenol, mints, spectacle cleaning cloth.

As I travel frequently in my job, I keep a wash bag always charged and ready to go with the smallest sizes of shaving foam, antiperspirant etc. that I can buy. The wash bag also includes a hotel freebie shoe cleaner, which takes up minimal space and weight.
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Due to frequent accidents..... Including theft of toiletries....... I now no longer carry them......

Packet of baby wipes....... 50ml of toothpaste...... A toothbrush...... 50ml spray of deodorant...... In hand baggage......

Tramp mode until I can buy new......
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If you are a frequent traveler always use the best quality luggage.....
After you buy expensive luggage, keep the reciept as you'll need it to make a claim when the airline destroys it, as a colleague of mine has recently discovered!
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STEVE G wrote:
If you are a frequent traveler always use the best quality luggage.....
After you buy expensive luggage, keep the reciept as you'll need it to make a claim when the airline destroys it, as a colleague of mine has recently discovered!

Quality does not have to be expensive just be well made and look it :mrgreen: :
This new bag of mine is already showing signs of wear between the wheels when I have dragged it off escalators etc.
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STEVE G wrote:
If you are a frequent traveler always use the best quality luggage.....
After you buy expensive luggage, keep the reciept as you'll need it to make a claim when the airline destroys it, as a colleague of mine has recently discovered!
Maybe I have been lucky with Samsinite luggage. Some of mine deserve to be in a museum but quality always tells. I have only ever needed to have one piece of Samsonite repaired and it was free of charge, without proof of purchase.

On the other hand I have bought very cheaply, in an emergency, and regretted it very quickly. It really depends on the usage. If your luggage only needs to make an occasional visit to baggage hell then cheap will do. I am sure that you have seen many times, the contents of a cheap suitcase lapping on the baggage conveyor. Not great if your baggage mostly contains the un laundered clothes from a different hotel every night tour of India or the subcontinent. Ugh!!!
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Maybe I have been lucky with Samsinite luggage. Some of mine deserve to be in a museum but quality always tells. I have only ever needed to have one piece of Samsonite repaired and it was free of charge, without proof of purchase.
I agree with buying quality luggage but I was just making tha point that when you try to claim off an airline for any damage, they want to see a reciept so put it aside somewhere. I work at airports and they can destroy anything, I've seen a case fall off a bagagge trailer and then get run over by a following 50 odd ton aircraft tug!
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Maybe this clip has been posted before. However, it shows how baggage can be treated or mistreated.
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Somewhere in the Forum archives is the answer to my question. I've seen it but can't find it again. So the question is Where can I get a suitcase repaired? Specifically, the zip. If I recall correctly the answer involves a location near railway station. Can anybody help?
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limbu wrote:Somewhere in the Forum archives is the answer to my question. I've seen it but can't find it again. So the question is Where can I get a suitcase repaired? Specifically, the zip. If I recall correctly the answer involves a location near railway station. Can anybody help?
Thank you.
If you take it to the shop on the corner of railway road(Prapokklao Road) and Soi 88 rail crossing(so it's the North East corner) Just around the corner from Villa Seville(Park in or near there)

Ask them to get Andy to fix it. He travels in from Hin Lek Fai almost every day to pick up work from them.

He's very talented and can fix anything like that.

Good luck



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Thank you Colonel. Perfect directions and a job well done.
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