SAMSONITE

Advantages: quality
Disadvantages: cost

...If you want something that's going to last you forever and if you want to get quality luggage, go for SAMSONITE. You may be thinking that you are going to be spending a bomb on something that is totally uneccessary a total peripheral to your travels but let me tell you that investing in a samsonite is going to save you more moeny than you think. I only wish I could have gotten mine a little earlier just to save more money. The last trip I took to London was three years ago and I had to lug this huge luggage around that first of all did not look glamorous at all and secondly had a detached wheel in just a matter of 17 minutes of being dragged across the streets of London from Mansion House up to the YHA opposite St Paul's cathedral. I was totally disgusted. What the samosonait has done for me is been loyal in not falling apart at times...

yingli.lim 14.12.2000 · Read review
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Review of Samsonite Suitcases

Samsonite Pop Up Bubble Travel Cot

Advantages: Lightweight, compact and great value for money
Disadvantages: Nothing that can not be overcome easily

...This product follows on from the Samsonite Pop-Up Travel Cot (which I have also reviewed). It is a brilliant, innovative product and was one of the first of its kind on the market. It has won various awards including the Baby Gear Gold Award 2005 and the Mother & Baby Gold Award Best Travel Item 2005/6, which it fully deserves. When our daughter became too large for the Samsonite Pop-Up Travel Cot (she was just over 8 months), our first port of call, when looking to 'up-grade' , was the Samsonite Pop-Up Bubble Travel Cot (suitable from 6 to 18 months, although some sites say from 0 to 18 months). We had found the Travel Cot so useful and convenient while she was a small baby that it made sense to look at the next product in the Samsonite range. We were keen to avoid conventional/traditional travel cots as they a) tend to be...

FunkyFaulkner 24.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Samsonite Pop-up Bubble Travel Cot

Samsonite Pop Up Travel Cot

Advantages: Extremely small, lightweight and easy to use
Disadvantages: Nothing that can not be overcome easily

...This is the first of two products in the Samsonite Travel Cot range and it leads on to the Samsonite Pop Up Bubble Travel Cot (which I have also reviewed). It is a brilliant, pioneering product and was the first of its kind on the market when I bought it while still pregnant with my first child in 2003/04. The Samsonite Pop Up Travel Cot is available in three colours - pink and blue in the standard model and stone in the deluxe model. The standard models are made of cotton and nylon, although the baby only lies on cotton, with the main outer body being made of the easily cleaned nylon while the deluxe model is all cotton except the nylon mosquito net - this does seem to make it slightly cooler but more difficult to clean any stains. I chose this travel cot over more traditional ones based purely on it's size when folded up...

FunkyFaulkner 24.07.2006 (12.10.2006) · Read review
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ALONG UNSPOILT BEACHES AND THROUGH MANGROVE SWAMPS

Advantages: a different way to see the Gambian countryside
Disadvantages: I fell off!

...A day spent horse riding in the Gambia, West Africa. During my first visit to the Gambia, about five years or so ago, a fellow tourist and I arranged (with the help of my Gambian friend, Dudu) to witness the sights, sounds and smells of the West African beaches and countryside on horseback. If you would like to read more about this country and about Dudu and my other Gambian friends, I will give my opinion “Welcome to the smiling coast of West Africa” a plug here, if you don’t mind. As this category suggests (well, it was me who suggested it!) this opinion is purely about trekking on horseback in the Gambia. The cost of the horse riding (the currency is Dalasi) was the English equivalent of a few pounds per rider. The ‘riders’ were a well-mixed group of Brits aged from 12 to 50+ years of age...

janna 30.06.2002 · Read review
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Review of Pony trekking in the Gambia

Indoor trekking

Advantages: Excellent cardio workout
Disadvantages: None

...Have just come back from a trekking class at our local Health and Fitness club. For those of you who have yet to try this excellent form of exercise let me explain what is involved. Trekking indoors involves running on a treadmill at various speeds and inclines for about 45 minutes. It provides a structured yet fun work out that you can adapt to differing levels of fitness. Our gym instructor leads you through the programme which starts with stretching and a 5 minute gentle warm up. You then establish what is called your set pace, a pace at which you can run comfortably running at zero percent incline for 3 minutes. You then increase the incline to 2 percent for 2 minutes before coming back to zero percent incline again. The workout goes on like that varying speeds and inclines through out to a maximum 8 percent incline (this is...

Mikew79 05.05.2003 · Read review
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Review of Walking - General

Star Trekking!

Advantages: Its Star Trek!
Disadvantages: End of game can be hard to beat

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atytyut2434 30.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force (PC)

Four Wheels Zero Effort!

Advantages: 4 Wheel Spinner, Looks great
Disadvantages: Slightly too heavy

...A truly brilliant case, the Samsonite Sahora not only looks good but drives great! My favourite feature is the four multi-directional spinner wheels which rotate to allow upright rolling in any direction. The Sahora 77cm costs £87.50 in an outlet store and around £125 in the high street. The case holds 110 litres and is ideal for 7 or more days. On first inspection Sahora seems to be a completely soft sided case. However on closer inspection it it visible that it is a hybrid between a hard and soft suitcase. The case has hard ABS corners which look like material but have the strength of a hard case. Thus giving Sahora the strength and durability of a hard case but the look and safistication of a soft case. The Main compartment is closed by a zipper and the case is pulled along by a retractable handle with push button lock that...

stevNI 23.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of Samsonite Sahora Saho Spin 77

Trekking in the Isalo National Park

Advantages: Great weather, lovely people, good food, spectacular views
Disadvantages: None!

...I thoughroughly enjoyed the three days we spend in the Isalo National Park, we had an excellent guide and the weather was very good, especially as it was the rainy season (Jan-March), the hotel we stayed in was very nice, all the rooms were based around a courtyard at the back of the hotel and each evening the gates were locked by the owner, making the hotel very secure, the owner (who I believe was Dutch) was very friendly and put us in touch with our guide. There are I believe two restaurants in the village, both of which were excellent and very good value for money, the modern restaurant in the middle of the village however was a little slow with the service, but it was nice to enjoy more luxurious surroundings. The biggest dissapointment was trekking to see the rock shaped like a boot, which when we arrived turned out to be very...

Rachyrach 24.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Parc National de Isalo, Fianarantsoa

My trekking days are over

Advantages: No impact ; good for aerobic work ; no spinal aggravation caused by sitting ;
Disadvantages: Heavy & large ; not silent ; fan doesn't keep you cool ; harsh on sore knees

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MichelleScott 17.10.2000 (08.06.2001) · Read review
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Review of Thane Orbitrek

Star Trekking Fun

Advantages: Not bad
Disadvantages: Not a classic

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real_rob_writer 03.05.2001 · Read review
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