Although Hartmann can’t help you with your lost luggage, you will be able to easily spot its newest collection on the carousel. Hartmann is shipping its Moulin Rouge Collection to stores on September 25. It’s the latest addition to its much-celebrated Luxe Collection. The Moulin Rouge Collection is available in Noir and Rouge. Its rich…
In a tightly packed, hockey puck sized bundle, comes a towel that is not only reusable, lightweight, fast drying and surprisingly durable but it’s also biodegradable. When I opened the Lightload Travel Towels package, it was so compressed that I felt like I was tearing apart chunks of cardboard it as I pulled and twisted…
Introducing Hovercraft, the latest in lightweight luggage by Eagle Creek Rolling Underseat Tote. It has a wide U-shaped opening, side pockets, an organizer panel for boarding pass, mobile phone and portable electronics, and a slip strap for easy transport on top of larger bags. It’s designed to fit perfectly under most airplane seats and has…
Just about everyone carried one of these Pan Am flight bags through the SF Airport when I first began flying decades ago. Today, these bags symbolize those early days of luxury flights. Replicating the originals, this new collection of travel bags are made of durable PVC in four styles. Prices are $52 to $84 and…
Imagine this… You pack your bag once with your warm and cool weather clothes. You ship it to a central repository. They itemize the items. Then, when you’re ready to take a trip, you go online, enter your virtual closet at FlyLite.com — “the world’s only remote wardrobe manager for frequent fliers,” click on the…
Time calls it “the go-light guru.” The Wall Street Journal proclaims “a wealth of practical advice.” And Yahoo! Internet Life says www.onebag.com is an “incredibly useful site.” By now, you get the idea that One Bag is offers lots of advice on travel and packing light. Its links include What To Take, What To Take…
Definition Bag-a-holic: “one afflicted with the compulsive desire to acquire new bags (purses, briefcases, backpacks, etc). Symptoms: caches of little-used luggage paraphernalia; subconscious gravitation to travel-related stores. Treatment: sfbags.com.” I for one have long suffered from this condition. What friends and family don’t understand though, is that this obsession is not pathological. What underlies every…
Over four decades of travel, I’ve been lucky. I never lost a piece of luggage, though my bag was delayed once in Eleuthera and once in Maui. Well, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics released its latest stats this month and it wasn’t pretty. More bags were lost, damaged or stolen from US airlines than in…
At LuggageFree.com, their slogan is “Pack heavy, travel light.” That’s because they’re the luxury luggage delivery expert, specializing in door-to-door delivery of everything from excess baggage, bikes, golf clubs, skis, and anything else you just don’t want to carry from your plane to your destination or to your home. This lets you speed through the…