The bag used to be the hassle of every trip.
I’m Robert Lora. I’m from the US, I live in Spain, and most of my travel is around Europe. I also get back to the States sometimes. For years the bag was the hassle of every trip. A carry on that measured fine at home and not at the gate. A strap that started digging in by hour three. Midnight packing, again, because the last one didn’t quite work.
I stand behind every guide on this site. Travel Bag Experts is where I work that out.
Why this site exists
This is a small site run by one person, and I’d rather it be useful than large. Bags are the piece of travel gear I think about most. Get one wrong and the trip costs you in small increments. None of it ruins a trip on its own, and all of it wears you down.
How I evaluate
This is the part most affiliate sites stay vague about, so here it is plainly. I don’t have every bag in this catalog in my hands. There’s no warehouse behind this site and no testing lab. What I do is research, and I try to do it more carefully than the next person.
- The spec sheet, written down. Weight, exterior and interior dimensions, capacity in liters, materials, warranty terms.
- Compared, not repeated. A bag isn’t light because its maker says so. It’s light relative to the bags sitting next to it.
- The complaint that repeats. I read owner reviews in volume. One broken wheel is bad luck. Forty people describing the same broken wheel is a design decision.
- Still the bag I described. I check that it’s still sold, still priced roughly where I say it is, and still the version on the page. Product lines get revised quietly and specs drift.
What I don’t do is claim to have carried a bag I haven’t carried. Where a page says I used something, I used it, and the page says what for and for how long. Everywhere else, read what you find here as specification comparison and owner research rather than a field test. Those are different things, and blurring them is how this whole genre lost people’s trust.
If you catch something wrong, a stale price, a spec that doesn’t match, a bag that no longer exists, tell me and I’ll fix it.
How the site makes money
Travel Bag Experts earns a commission through the Amazon Associates program. If you buy through a link here, Amazon pays me a small percentage and you pay exactly the price you would have paid anyway.
That’s what keeps the site running, and it isn’t what decides the order of the picks. Commission rates across luggage brands sit close enough together that there’s no version of this where a payout is worth recommending the wrong bag. Full terms are in the affiliate disclosure.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, or a bag you think deserves a look.
Or through the contact page. I read everything that comes in.