LuggagePhew what an exhausting day!From 10 this morining until 4 this afternoon i was trekking around the metro centre looking at luggage - i never would have believed that cases could be so complicated  As i see it the problem initially stems from the airlines. I just cant figure out why their rules for luggage have to be so complicated! You can have two pieces of hold luggage, but the combined dimensions cant be bigger than a certain size, then each piece individually cant be bigger than another size, then you have an overall weight limit plus a different individual bag limit  On top of all that there is your hand luggage that can have maximum length, width and depth but you cant 'take' a bit off the length allowance to offset the fact that your depth is over. Plus there is the luggage itself - apart from the ridiculous prices - you just think you have found somrthing that looks right for all of your sizes and then you pick it up and discover that it weighs a tonne! Then you find a piece that has an extra zippy bit that opens to give you more capacity - great! you think - only when you measure the case with the added sticky-out bit it turns out that it now means that you exceed the combined luggage dimensions so your second case needs to be smaller, thus you have in effect negated the point of the 'expanding' case in the first place. The final problem of course is when you ask the nice lady on the counter how many of a particular case they have in stock. The incredulous surprise on her face is a picture to behold when you tell her that you need 10 of them  .Anyway with a lot of to-ing and fro-ing (with very tired bored kids in tow) we finally found cheap (reduced twice in the sale sort of cheap) reasonable quality cases that will fit our baggage allowaces, Callum was thrilled with his 'trunki' ride on hand luggage, Rhys decided on a back-pack so he could be like daddy, the blokes went for maximum capacity rucksacks - which left me ... ... well all i really wanted was a nice girly flight case in some sort of chintzy fabric  (maybe in pink?!). Could i find one? Could i heck. So after all that i am still not finished - but then again i have a good excuse to go hand bag shopping so that is ok! (as long as i can leave the kids at home next time!)Tiggs x Last Page | Page 20 of 122 | Next Page |
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