pi-tag.com - Secure luggage, keys, mobile tagging.

Advantages: Secure luggage tracking. Automated Service. Get messages worldwide.
Disadvantages: Must subscribe for 1 year at a time.

...Having decided to take a well earned break from the UK, I went looking for some new luggage tags. I found a number of sites on the internet but the best I found was a site called pi-tag.com. pi-tag.com was on BBC Radio 2's website of the day in March 2005 and it was through the Radio 2 website that I found it. It costs just £9.99 to register for one year - and for that you get your choice of 2 tags. You can purchase additional tags online if you wish. Once registered, an activation code is sent to your registered address to verify your contact details and a unique pi-tag number is assigned to you. If someone finds your bag, they don't know your home address or telephone number but that are told on the tag to contact you at pi-tag.com - or by calling the international 0870 number. If you ring the telephone number...

Gichin 14.12.2005 · Read review
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Review of Travel - luggage

* Find them on t'net . .

Advantages: Keeps luggage secure.
Disadvantages: None at all.

...These things are a real boon, when it comes to securing anything on a roof rack, you need something like a net, otherwise your suitcases could be strewn all over the motorway. This happens everyday of the year, sometimes with dire consequences. The Police and Highways Agency are out there recovering your treasured items of luggage, and sometimes clearing up after road traffic collisions resulting from debris on the road. The idea is simple, the elasticated net, encapsulates all manner of kit, in a tray on your roofrack, and keeps it contained and safe. I very often see huge mounds of luggage piled high on roofs, with nothing more than just a couple of bungey straps to hold everything down. Thule are a company with a good track record in travel equipment, including these nets. They have a decent website, although to be honest, I...

smudgeybabes 08.08.2008 · Read review
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Trunki Terminates Toddler Terminal Travel Troubles

Advantages: Great design. Easy to use. Kid friendly. Durable.
Disadvantages: None to speak of.

...INTRODUCTION Anyone who has a young child (or two) will be intimately familiar with the keenly felt frustration that all parents experience at Heathrow after a long flight. You exit the gate, the moving walkways are out of order, you are saddled with various hand luggage and duty free bags, and your tired, sleepy and grumpy little so and so decides they?re not walking for love nor Smarties (I would say money, but chocolate is the preferred currency of bribery at that age). On our many trips out to Cyprus, the airport staff at Larnaka never seem to have any problems delivering strollers and push chairs to the base of the stairs from which you disembark the aircraft, but such common sense and practicality seems anathema to staff at most of our British airports. In fact, you?ll be lucky to collect your property in one piece - if you...

Hishyeness 09.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Magmatic Trunki Luggage for Little People

I am all packed mum

Advantages: A bag and toy in one
Disadvantages: Expensive compared to other chidrens' bags

...We have been on a few holidays with the little one and she wanted her own bag to take on the plane and I knew straight away which one I was getting her, the trunki. My mum brought it for her for her birthday and she loved it and it has now been on a couple of holidays and is used every time she goes to stay at someone house which is at least once every two weeks so is regularly used. You are probably thinking what makes this child bag stand out from the rest of the bags out there. This bag was designed to be light and up to the maximum size a hand luggage for a plane can be. What makes it so special is that it is made from a strong light plastic, has a moulded seat as part of the case, has four wheels at the bottom, two little horns at the top which act as handles and a strap that is detachable. Your little one then sits...

ldvda 30.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Magmatic Trunki Luggage for Little People

Dont Forget your Sleeping Partner

Advantages: see op
Disadvantages: see op

...Luggage is a great category for me, I've never got the hang of traveling light. For me luggage consists of two very large hard plastic suitcases full of my stuff plus a swimming cossie and spare pair of undies for hubby! Here's my indispensable list of holiday items, without which I could not survive a week. Yes you do have to worry about excess baggage, always weigh your suitcases before you leave home, then take out all the clothes and weight them again. ~~~ My Pillow ~~~ A number of years ago I read somewhere that you will always get a good nights sleep, whatever bed you are in, so long as you have your own pillow. You may mock but it's damned good advice which I've followed ever since and I always sleep well. Another advantage of taking a pillow is that it’s a nice big padded thing to wrap breakables in when you are...

KathrynE 13.08.2001 · Read review
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Review of Travel - luggage

Lost luggage and still liking it!

Advantages: Clean and helpful staff
Disadvantages: None for us- it got us whre we wanted to be

.../facilities and a business centre. OUR EXPERIENCE OF THE AIRPORT... On arrival at the airport, we were speedily taken to the baggage area which was a fairly painless process given that we had to collect a Visa on entry; in fact, it was all very organised! The baggage reclaim area was large and spacious and had plenty of trollies on which passengers could put their cases. So far, so good, until our cases didn?t arrive! We then experienced an outdated computer and staff who seemed unable to add the details into the computer so that the luggage could be tracked and hopefully found. However, throughout the experience, the staff were as helpful as they could possibly be given the language barrier and the fact that I was clearly not happy. Once all of the details were taken we went for a taxi, and found when we got outside that there were several taxis...

danielalong 01.08.2009 · Read review
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The best holiday purchase ever. So many uses, so much fun!

Advantages: So many uses, durable, fun, large storage capacity.
Disadvantages: Hidden compartments too small, hard to turn corners as wheels are fixed.

...We bought the Tipu the Tiger Trunki for our son to take on holiday this year. We've travelled by plane before and used a childs wheeled suitcase for his bits and bobs but the Trunki provides so much more than just storage. Before departure it's fun to let him pick his own toys/books etc to go in Trunki. I then sneak a few new activity books, stickers, toys and snacks etc in for him to discover later on. Trunki has a very good storage capacity and has some little extra features such as hidden compartmens and an elastic luggage strap to hold his toys in place. It also has a fabric pocket which runs the length of Trunki. The hidden compartments are a bit daft as they're too small to put anything in. Trunki is also a ride-on toy that can be powered by the child propelling themselves with their feet, or the long carry strap can be...

cornishgirl31 03.08.2009 · Read review
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Watch the weight

Advantages: Keeps contents safe
Disadvantages: weighs that little bit extra

...So you have decided to go on a trip, well thats great and I hope you will thorougly enjoy that trip but which suitcase should I take with me. There are huge varieties of cases on the market and most importantly you should think about the weight of the case. The standard travelling delsey weighs 5.2 kg which at time of purchase how many of you ask how heavy the luggage is? Most recommemded by myself would be delsey strong durable and will travel well, a Delsey should last you 15 years of heavy travel, I travel constantly working for an airline, and have tried out variuos brands I would secondly reccomend Samsonite hard shell cases, but again the disadvantage is that they normally weigh 7kg, so if you are travelling economy class then that will leave you with only 16kg of luggage allowance with 23 kg being the standard allowance, so...

DT5 15.04.2001 (01.04.2002) · Read review
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Review of Travel - luggage

Hump a pack and sausage-roll clothes.

Advantages: Easy to get around with, loads of space, all-round winner.
Disadvantages: Don't pack breakable items.

...receive at the hands of baggage-loaders is unreal. Don’t pack breakable or valuable items in your pack though: keep your camera in your hand luggage. Have you ever tried to lay your head on a suitcase and get some shuteye during delays? A backpack is an ideal soft spot to lay your head, and also to lean against and snooze. (Ask me, and I will tell you a memorable story about a six-hour stopover in Athens airport.) Added to the advantages, all packs come with dual zips, so you can ‘lock’ the pack with small padlocks for added security. If you don’t want to keep taking the pack off to get to various much-needed items like money and tickets, take a small sling bag in which to put these things. It can also double as your hand luggage on the aeroplane or train. This way your hands are free for anything you may...

Spacecat 27.07.2001 · Read review
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Review of Travel - luggage

The Bare Necessities...

Advantages: n/a
Disadvantages: n/a

...:), you'll find these an essential addition to your luggage, especially when idling away the boring hours on transport or in stations. I sometimes even take a sketch pad and pencils, especially when travelling somewhere like Switzerland where if you have a creative bone in your body you'll feel yourself inspired to try and capture the breath-taking scenery. Even if you're not particularly artistic or literary-minded, take a pen and pad just in case ? if nothing else it will come in handy for shopping lists, taking down phone numbers or drawing pictures of a toilet for a non-English-speaking train-guard. Well, I hope you've found this useful. And I don't need to tell you that the most important things to take are a sense of fun, a yearning for adventure and an overall love of life! Happy Trails!!!...

gennymutant 18.07.2001 · Read review
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