Your Expert Guide to the Best Travel Gear in the UK
There’s a particular sound every sailor knows: the slap of a wet oilskin landing on a chart table, followed by the slow, creeping dread of realising your phone was in the same pocket. A waterproof holdall for sailing isn’t a luxury item, it’s the difference between a dry set of thermals at 2am on watch … Read more
There’s a particular flavour of despair reserved for opening the car boot after a soggy weekend at a festival, or after three nights on a Lake District campsite, and discovering your sleeping bag has quietly turned into a sponge. A waterproof holdall for camping is a flexible, weather-sealed carry bag — usually made from PVC, … Read more
Rain in Britain isn’t weather so much as a personality trait. So when you’re heaving gear across a festival field, lashing a bag to a kayak, or just dragging a weekend’s worth of clothes through a drizzly station car park, the bag you choose matters more than most people ever stop to consider. Finding the … Read more
Somewhere between the rigid hard-shell suitcase and the floppy weekend duffel sits a bag that quietly does both jobs at once, and that’s exactly what a wheeled holdall for cabin baggage is built to be: a soft-sided travel bag with wheels and a pull handle, sized to squeeze into an overhead locker or slide under … Read more
A large wheeled holdall is a soft-sided travel bag, typically 75-95cm long with a capacity of 80-150 litres, built with two or four wheels and a telescopic handle so it can be dragged rather than carried. Think of it as the scruffy, flexible cousin of the hard-shell suitcase — less structured, more forgiving, and usually … Read more
Anyone who has ever dragged a bursting-at-the-seams sports bag across a car park at 7am on a Sunday knows the problem intimately: your arm aches, your studs are somehow already muddy, and you’ve still got two flights of clubhouse stairs to go. A wheeled holdall for sports kit is a large soft-sided bag with in-built … Read more
Somewhere between the rigid suitcase and the shoulder-crushing rucksack sits a bag that never quite gets its due credit: the holdall. Squashable, stretchy, happy to be shoved under a bus seat or wedged into an overhead locker — and, when it’s got wheels bolted on, suddenly a genuine rival to the wheelie case you queued … Read more
Here’s a confession most gym-goers won’t say out loud: half of us pick our workout kit based on how good the leggings look, then shove it all into whatever bag happens to be gathering dust by the front door. A rucksack that’s really meant for laptops. A weekend suitcase that takes up half the changing … Read more
Here’s a scenario you already know by heart. You’re standing in the hallway three days before a trip, staring at a suitcase that’s somehow both too small and, mysteriously, still half-empty of the stuff you actually need. You bought souvenirs. Somebody handed you a “just take this back for me” bag. Your holdall from 2019 … Read more
There’s a particular kind of dread reserved for the check-in desk queue, when the person two spots ahead of you is having their bag weighed, measured, and quietly rejected. You watch them repack a jumper into their coat pockets right there on the airport floor, and you promise yourself it will never be you. The … Read more