Suitcase Recommendations

[pastafreak]

Suitable for an older person with (sometimes) rubbish knees. I've been looking at aerolite as it's super lightweight. Any experience?

[Buenchico]

I can't recommend any specific brand. (Sorry!) However I might be able to give you a useful pointer:

When I was working at a railway station I helped thousands of passengers with their luggage, including getting it up and down lots of stairs. (They've got it easy at that station these days though - they've installed lifts!).

Most customers used suitcases with wheels, which were meant to make them easy to handle. However I quickly learnt that suitcases which have wheels close together are very tricky to handle, as they constantly try to tip from one side to another, almost ripping your wrist off as they do so. (It's often simpler to forget about using the wheels altogether and to simply lift the suitcase clear of the ground).

Those suitcases which had wheels set well apart though were a joy to use and, even when heavily loaded, required very little effort to manoeuvre.

So I strongly recommend avoiding anything like this (with wheels close together)
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81fU7WUCRkL._SL1500_.jpg
and to look for something with a low centre of gravity, with the wheels set wide apart, such as these from Samsonite:
https://www.luggageonline.com/media/sliderCollection/samsonite/Silhouette_Sphere_2_Softside_Samsonite.png

[Samuraisan]

Totally agree with Buenchico. We used to have one of the suitcase with wheels ( first picture) and it was a nightmare.

[ummmm]

I have four wheeled ones. They just glide along. I got two from Amazon and a cheaper one from Tesco but they are as good as each other.

[Jahulaye]

Well hopefully the ant gravity technology that made Marty’s hover board hover will be available to us all soon as they’ve achieved this using powerful magnets. Imagine the ease if all pavement sides had this antigravity tech so we could just levitate our shopping/ suitcases around with minimal lifting.

[gness]

Hi, Pasta......I have a number of suitcases all with wheels but I find pulling them as I age a strain so I'm with Ummmm...

I bought one last year which has four wheels and it's so much better.......

There are slightly lighter ones with two wheels but honestly.....four wheels has made such a difference...

Wheels along so easily and if you can't lift it just look old and helpless......a young man will offer to help and with luck you'll pull...and I don't mean the case.... ;-)

[atalanta]

Got mine from Primark.

[gness]

Whoops....don't mean Ummmm is too old to pull suitcases.....
And I don't mean with Ummmm on holiday......that would be an accident waiting to happen..... :-)

[shoota]

Whichever one you get, call it 'Justin'.....

[gness]

I've had a wonderful and happy day, Shoota......and you've added to it!....I do love your wit........xxx

[pastafreak]

Well, my research do far has said "wheels!! and lots of them".
So far the reviews I've read of aerolite( 4 and 8 wheels ) and another brand whose name escapes me have been 80% very positive. So unless that hovercraft technology appears, it will be one of those.

[pastafreak]

Sorry...hoverboard, not hovercraft.

[Jahulaye]

;)

[mallyh]

oh and I bought IT cases from argos easy to wheel about and very light x

[mallyh]

^^^^^we bought the medium and small ,ample room for clothes for two x

[vulcan42]

This is what you want.

[douglas9401]

Call me daft if you like but surely it will depend on how much stuff you put in the case that determines whether it's too heavy to manage or not.
The empty weight is irrelevant at the check-in scales.

[237SJ]

Get a Samsonite spinner suitcase. It will last you for the rest of your life.

[jno]

IT are still the lightest, as far as I know. If you've only got a 5kg limit you don't want your case to take up 3kg of it.

The lightest ones are soft-sided, so use with care if you think it might rain (eg having to walk across the tarmac to a Ryanair flight).