Review: Lightweight Hybrid Luggage from Antler

Antler Luggage

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England-based Antler is a luggage company which first introduced a world to a soft-top luggage in a 1930s. According to a companys website, a ultimate Duolite pick up is a hybrid lightweight box for a 21st century traveler.
First, The Specs

The nominal chronicle of suitcase we received has an outward front pocket as good as a single main territory with two sets of ties to assistance keep your belongings in place. The suitcase cuts out extras similar to a mantle bag or dividers. But a few great touches have been still in place such as a zippered mesh pocket upon a inside of a lid complete with small residence card section, a TSA authorized padlock as good as keys, as good as an expandable main compartment.

The behind is framed with ABS, a combination cosmetic which is additionally used in golf club heads for a shock absorbent properties, as good as is padded with foam.

The fabric is 300400 denier nylon.

Large honest weighs 6.4 lbs as good as measures 28.7(h) x 19.7(w) x 11.8 (d).

Medium honest weighs 5.5 lbs as good as measures 26.4(h) x 17.3(w) x 11(d).

Carry-on weighs 4.6lbs as good as measures 21.7(h) x 13.8(w) x 7.9(d).

Telescoping hoop with push symbol release.

Padded squeeze hoop during a top.

My Experience

My twenty-eight honest weighed 6.5 lbs. Pretty close to advertised, as good as they do have a disclaimer to allow for discrepancies in weight formed upon manufacturing. My unchanging suitcase of a same size weighs about 13lbs so this is a poignant (and welcome) difference.

Antler Luggage

When we complicated as good as worked abroad, we fundamentally over-packed as good as had to compensate excess weight fees during a airport. This l! ighweigh t Duolite box helps assuage which as good as allows for those few additional indispensable pounds.

I stuffed a box full of all my common non-backpacking transport necessities shoes, clothes, books, toiletries, some-more shoes as good as afterwards an additional span of shoes for great luck, as good as we was tender during how light it felt, even whilst near overflowing.

Overall, a box handles good as good as rolls smoothly. we similar to which it usually has two wheels; we have seen four-wheeled versions hurl divided from their owners upon subways. Im not a huge fan of just a single squeeze handle. It seems preferred to have during slightest a single along a side as good to assistance get a suitcase in as good as out of cars as good as off a luggage carousel, yet it isnt a personal deal-breaker for me.

Concerns
Antler Luggage

The support supports a bottom as good as behind of a case, yet usually comes up about half approach up a side, so a top as good as partial of a sides have been soft as good as unsupported.

This was obviously designed to assistance save weight, yet if a heavy box or suitcase was slammed upon top of it, as good as something fragile inside wasnt well-packaged, we imagine it might suffer.

But afterwards again, if youre traveling with something which delicate, you should probably have it in protecting packaging.

And it comes in usually black similar to so many alternative suitcases so get a flashy luggage tag or some stickers to assistance you commend it upon a luggage carousel.

Final Word

While it may not be preferred for transporting vast amounts of breakables or fragile valuables, it works unequivocally good for travelers looking to container a lot as good as still be means to move around easily without feeling similar to theyre lugging luggage around.

Price: Carry-on $159, medium ho! nest $1 79, vast honest $199 | BUY from online retailers | In-store (though a selection is limited)

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