Choosing Your Senior Travel Luggage
April 21, 2009 – 10:57 amYour senior travel luggage selection can make the difference between a great trip and a trip you would like to forget. Here are a few key things to consider before you make your selection and purchase.
How Often Do You Travel?
If you have always dreamed about traveling as much as you can once you retired, then buy the best luggage that you can afford. If you rarely travel, maybe borrowing someone’s luggage for your senior travel makes sense.
The Length of Your Trip
Usually, the length of your trip will affect the number of pieces of luggage that you take. If you are headed to Brazil for six months, you might take six bags or more. If you are going to Las Vegas for two nights, maybe one bag of travel luggage will be enough.
Your Age and Physical Condition
If you are elderly, or your physical abilities are limited, you may want to take smaller pieces of luggage that have wheels. It is probably a good idea to check your luggage, rather than carry it on and put it in an overhead compartment.
Part of your vacation budget should include money to pay porters to handle your senior travel luggage, once you touch down at your destination.
How Much Money
In general, the more traveling you plan to do, the more money you should spend on your luggage. With the increase in durability and longevity, it is money well spent. Security features that include locks and computer chips make it virtually impossible to lose your senior travel luggage.
What Color
The luggage color the senior traveler selects is jointly important both to the wear and tear it shows and its ability to stand out when surrounded by other luggage.
Depending on how you will do most of your traveling: by car, airplane, boat, bus, train, bike, or walking, most active and adventure seeking senior citizens need travel luggage to fit all these occasions. After the color has been chosen, it would be wise for the senior traveler to stripe his or her luggage with reflective tape in a special logo or initials. This really helps to spot it coming off a turnstile and saves you time and the embarrassment of picking up somebody else’s luggage.
Good luck to seniors traveling with new luggage!
