Hard shell case or light soft one?

[Hombody1976]

Any thoughts on luggage? Don't want to waste precious kgs on a big heavy case but are the light ones up to the journey and handling?

[Tetrarch]

Be aware that if you arrive/depart during one of their torrential downpours, your cases can be left outside at the airport and everything inside a soft case potentially can get soaked. Have seen it mentioned quite a few times on here. For that reason alone I wouldn't go with soft sided.

Debra

[Posiesmum]

Originally Posted by Tetrarch

Be aware that if you arrive/depart during one of their torrential downpours, your cases can be left outside at the airport and everything inside a soft case potentially can get soaked. Have seen it mentioned quite a few times on here. For that reason alone I wouldn't go with soft sided.

Debra

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Totally agree. I remember once watching a luggage cart at Dallas airport. A tornado warning had sounded and the handlers just left the bags on the apron. They were sodden. Hard sided every time.

[Twinkletoes47]

I travel with hard sided cases, find they offer better protection that soft sided, but...I always pack one or two hold-alls for the return journey; filled with dirty washing generally so not bothered if they get wet, and my precious purchases in my hard sided case (or hand luggage obvs!)

[400ixl]

Cheap cases if the material is not waterproof. Anything half decent will be water resistant so being out in the rain will make no difference.

I would always go with a soft holdall type bag as it adds so such more flexibility. I can see hard shell ones being ok if you are a one stop holiday kind of person, but when it comes to road trips they are just a pain. We do the latter so soft shell for us.

[tspill]

Soft for us as we find packing hardshell cases too inflexible.

[Chris106]

Always seems to be the hard shell cases that you see damaged , I presume it's because they don't stack well and hence fall off baggage trolleys etc. when being handled at the airport.

[Omega1]

I’m a softie. I won’t buy a case that weighs more than 3kg.

[xXxSammi88xXx]

Hard shell for us. We all had soft cases the first time and a storm started with the cases left outside. Everything inside them was soaked when we arrived home.

[Hombody1976]

We currently have soft cases and I'm wondering is a waterproof spray might work 🤔