How to Choose Senior Travel Luggage
A senior's travel luggage selection can make the difference between a great trip and a trip they 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, once you retired, traveling as much as you can, then buy the best luggage money can buy, and 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 more the number of pieces of luggage that you bring more than it affects the size of your luggage. 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 two bags of senior travel luggage will be enough.
Your Age and Physical Condition
If you are old or your physical abilities are limited, you may want to take many smaller pieces of luggage that have wheels. It is probably a good idea to check most of your luggage rather than carry it on and have to lift it to 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 for your senior travel luggage. With the increase in durability and longevity, it is money well spent. Security features that include locks and computer chips that are implanted in your luggage 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 to its ability to stand out when surrounded by other luggage.
Obviously the importance of the color will vary a bit depending on how you do most of your traveling: by car, airplane, boat, bus, train, bike, or walking.
Most active and adventure seeking senior citizens need travel luggage that fits 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 quickly 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!
