Delsey 07642BL Helium Aero PC Hardside 21 in. Spinner Trolley Luggage, Blue

Super Koffer.

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I'll say off the bat that I far prefer to travel with a backpack; why give up 7, 8, or 9 pounds in luggage weight allowance for a spinner when you can just strap 2 pounds of fabric to your back instead? Well, I'm getting older and creakier and I have a back condition so the backpacking days of my youth are pretty well behind me. At the same time, I prefer to go carry-on only no matter the trip duration, and I unfortunately mortally wounded our last Delsey spinner during a spring trip (we limped it along with one broken wheel for weeks: no fun. But let that be a lesson to me: don't sit your butt down ON the case while waiting at the airport unless you're willing to risk snapping a wheel!) I was trying to find exactly the right size replacement -- probably technically an inch too big in some dimension or other to be totally permissible to carry on the plane, yet unobtrusive enough looking that it'd likely slide by the critical eyes of all but the most crabby gate agents. This fits that bill exactly! It is also expandable if you're going to be traveling back with goodies from your trip. It banged around European cobblestones for 6 weeks and while it's not as shiny as before, is as sturdy as the day it arrived. Not excessively heavy for a spinner, rolls really smoothly (as long as you're not on cobblestone, of course!). For what it's worth: Blue is my favorite color and this one is a nice pretty, deep hue.

I am absolutely disappointed in this purchase, the item is described as a carry on but this is much larger than a carry on and I had to pay to check in this bag multiple times over the last month with Air Canada on international flights. This item is absolutely not a carry on and I would recommend not purchasing this item if you are purchasing it to save on baggage fees.

This was the first bag I've had with hard sides and a "clamshell" type structure, where it has equally sized compartments on both sides, instead of a lid that zips over one big compartment like most soft-sided bags. I wasn't sure I would like having to split all my packing into two halves, but I ended up deciding that this is a handy feature, because I can use one side for things I want to access more often, and the other one for more occasional items. I used to think soft-sided bags were convenient because you can mash them into tight spaces, but with a hard-sided bag, you never have to mash it at all. As long as it is sized correctly for the compartment, it will slip right in with no mashing. So on the whole I have liked this bag, but from the start it had a sticky handle. If you've ever dealt with one of these, you know how annoying it can be: you try to retract the handle, it somehow gets stuck halfway down, and you have to jiggle it to get it to retract all the way. At first the handle was just a little sticky, not enough to bother returning the bag. Plus, I'd gotten this as a replacement for a different bag that I had been even less satisfied with, so I didn't want to be a Goldilocks. And I had run out of time before an immanent trip... so I had to put up with the sticky handle. This was less than two years ago, and in that time I've traveled a lot with this bag. I still like it overall, but the handle has gotten worse and worse, to the point where I now find myself in the aisle of planes annoying the people behind me for far too long as I jiggle the handle this way and that, trying to make it retract. In cabs, I often don't even bother. How many minutes of my life have I now spent cajoling this reluctant handle? Far too many, cumulatively. The bag is otherwise in good condition and I could have gotten another couple years of use out of it, but enough is enough. If I keep testing my luck, one of these days the handle might get stuck for good, and that will be a huge hassle mid-trip. So now I need a new bag, and this bag needs a redesign, or at least the handle does. If all the bags of this model have handles as sticky as mine, I would give it two stars at most. But I assume I just got a lemon, so I'll generously give four stars because most other people will probably end up with working models. If you do get one with a sticky handle, return it right away! Otherwise you'll end up having to replace it far too soon.