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

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

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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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.

...How many of us have packed our dinosaur suitcases (the one that Aunty Molly left when she visited three years ago, the one that has no wheelies, that is usually bright orange and weighs an absolute ton when you’re done packing?) and triumphantly sat on the lid, happy in the knowledge that you have EVERYTHING (perhaps the kitchen sink too) you are possibly going to need in a foreign country? Come on, everyone who travelled for the first time is guilty of this, and I see all of you hiding shamed faces behind your monitors… Now then, how many of you have seen the intrepid foreign travellers to the UK humping backpacks on their shoulders? You have probably thought: wow, it looks heavy, and you would be right, but there is my point. These people WALK all over town, with their houses on their backs, much like snails...

Spacecat 27.07.2001 · Read review
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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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Review of Travel - luggage

Trunki Terminates Toddler Terminal Travel Troubles

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

...has a loop, allowing you to easily grip it in hand for the pull along mode. This excellent, innovative bit of kit instantly made the trek from the arrivals gate to baggage reclaim an adventure instead of a chore, with my daughter begging me for a ride at every available opportunity. The only drawback was that its not that easy (or safe) to use as a pull along in very crowded areas, as people don?t tend to look down and can easily bash your kid?s head with hand luggage. Also, the strap, when fully extended can be a trip hazard if your kid drifts off to the left or right (instead of travelling straight) as they are wont to do. That said, on balance the Trunki was a godsend and a fantastic investment that was well worth the money. We used the Trunki for spare clothes (in case of in-flight accidents or emergencies), snacks, colouring books...

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

Travelling compactly

Advantages: Folds up compactly, bright colours, use as a cot or play pen
Disadvantages: Thin mattress base

...~*~*~INTRODUCTION~*~*~ My mother in law wanted to buy a travel cot when my son was born as she will be looking after him when I go back to work. We looked around on the internet and when she saw the Graco compact she decided that was the one, she loved that it was nice and bright and thought my son would enjoy playing in there as well as sleeping. We ordered it from Kiddicare but unfortunately they have stopped selling it. I have since seen it on Amazon, Halfords and Ebay though for roughly the same prices. ~*~*~FEATURES~*~*~ -Suitable from birth to around 3 years. -It comes in a handy carry case, making it easy for travel. -The travel cot unfolds easily and I actually put it up in a couple of minutes on my first attempt. -The sides are mesh which is nice and soft for wriggly babies banging their heads, also...

ashton08 12.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Graco Travel Cot

Poppa's got a brand new bag!

Advantages: Find it quick!
Disadvantages: to find it , you need to find a computor

...onto the website and report it lost. -Wherever your bag has gone, hopefully the airport will have been informed and will also go to the website and using the unique number, globalbagtag will tell them who's it is and where it should be and when. -Get your bag back and enjoy your holiday safe in the knowledge that you now have the 3 packets of Diacalm and the Jumper for the 'Chilly' nights that you packed. Thats it, simple really, losing suitcases is never going to stop completly but finding them again just got a whole lot easier! The one downfall of this system is that it requires someone at the airport to see the tag and then go to the website, Luggage reclaims are aware of this product though as I found out to my benefit....

wompie99 03.07.2005 · Read review
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Euro Trip

Advantages: Funny Teenagers in Europe
Disadvantages: Crude, rude humour

...Euro Trip is one of those teenage movies that actually can?t help but make you laugh. It?s of a similar humour to American Pie, rude, crude and a little wrong but actually a very well made movie and in my opinion very funny. Euro Trip was released in 2004 . It stars your usual bunch of teenage actors that have swamped Hollywood in recent years. Some have gone on to make more of their careers, some haven?t done very much at all. The girl in this movie who goes to Europe is Michelle Trachtenberg and she has been in Buffy and gone on to do quite well. The basic plot of this movie tells the story of Scott Thomas and his three friend?s travels across Europe in search of his pen pal Mieke. He discovers he has feelings for her after he is unceremoniesly dumped by his college girlfriend. In quite funny scenes from the beginning...

Spottydog11 13.11.2009 · Read review
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The Time Traveller's Wife

Advantages: beautiful story, moving
Disadvantages: none

...My husband bought himself Audrey Niffenegger?s The Time Traveller?s Wife as he is a sci-fi fan. He read the book and put it on the bookshelf. After a few weeks I read a few reviews on it and discovered that we have this book so I started reading it. It was a very engaging reading I could hardly put the book down. When we heard that there will be a film based on this exciting and brilliant novel we decided to go together to the cinema to watch it. Well, I had to wait a lot until I could really watch it but it was worth waiting for it. The Time Traveller?s Wife was planned for a fall 2008 release but it was delayed until August 2009. The reason of the delay was that they had to do a reshoot and they had to wait for the meadow to look the same again and funny but for Eric Bana?s hair to grow out again. He had a role in Star Trek where he...

D_i_a_n_e 26.11.2009 · Read review
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