Taking Care of Your Luggage Set
If you plan on taking a vacation, or maybe just a trip with the kids and spouse, then you probably have thought about luggage or suitcase sets. Here are some travel preparation suggestions to add to your travel checklist! If you’ve ever watched the luggage circle at a luggage carousel, you’ve noticed that not all luggage is alike. And the less alike your luggage is, the more likely you’ll pick it up before someone mistakes it for their own! You used to think that tying some neon wooly yarn to the handle was enough to get the luggage safely home, but read on, and be prepared for your next vacation!
Perhaps you already have a set of luggage prepared or maybe you need to buy a new set just for the trip you are planning. Whichever the case may be, you definitely must make sure that the luggage is safe and protected along the journey and that it gets to your destination when you arrive.
So here is our fist tip: always make sure each piece of luggage has a tag with your name, home address, and phone number and the contact numbers and information of the hotel you are staying at on your vacation. In case you are using the “belt and braces” technique, it is most definitely worth having several information tags on each and every piece of luggage you bring with you. So, if a tag gets lost or ripped off, there will be another with your information still intact.
Also consider, if you have a particular Samsonite brand of luggage, or if the luggage you have is made with other thick, strong material, that your name and phone number is engraved or permanently inscribed somehow on the luggage. That way you are protected if both of your contact tags get lost. Even if you don’t like disfiguring your luggage in this way, it is just one more fail-safe against losing your luggage. Plus, marked luggage is less targeted by burglars.
It feels like luggage goes missing or misdirected during transit more often these days. Sadly this is just due to the fact many people now travel internationally, where in the past it was more exclusive. Lastly, when you pick up your luggage set at your vacation destination, take off the airline’s own travel tag.
Because then you will just leave it there when you return, and the airline needs to apply a new one. Needless to say, this can be confusing, so make sure there will be only one travel tag per piece of luggage for each airplane ride.
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