The Luggage Blog

Excess may be passe, but we had to share this ridiculously opulent luggage offering. Bottega Veneta, known for luxurious leather goods, has a set of luggage that’s worth $157,000. The six piece set, which includes three suitcases (small, medium and large), a beauty case and a duffle bag, is finished in noce fume rich brown soft-finished alligator skin. Not in the market for a full set of luggage that is worth three times the amount of the average American income? Not to worry, because each piece is also sold individually ranging from $23,000 to $47,000…presumably worth more than the average American car.

If $30k is still out of your price range, visit Luggage Online for luggage and travel goods that are priced a bit more reasonably.

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Travel related news gathered from around the web and brought to you weekly:

- Congress to try and regulate carry on size.

- Southwest will test fees for Internet use, depending on length of flight & type of connection.

- Registered traveler company, Clear, shuts down.

- Fodor’s offers 10 easy tips to becoming a carry on traveler.

Bonus Tiding (because we like you)

- MSN Money talks Airline fee madness.

We’ve all had some really great vacations with lovely photos to prove it, but let’s face it - really bad travel stories can actually be enjoyed by others as well (our apologies if you believe your friends and family really want to see your album from Disney). The Titanic Awards seek to take a different approach to these often spectacular happenings in the travel industry…by celebrating them.

So move over Best, The Titanic Awards want to reward the worst of the worst. By asking readers to participate in the World’s Worst Travel Survey, requesting videos, pictures and more- they’re rounding them up- one awful experience at a time.

Head on over and take the survey or share your story. There isn’t a worst luggage category, but even if there were, we wouldn’t be concerned : )

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Travel related news gathered from around the web and brought to you weekly:

–K Hotels, a collection of unique hotels around the world, partners up with TITAN Luggage, a leader in technologically-advanced travel gear, to offer customers the chance to win an entire set of luggage.

–Packing Tips from the [UK] Times Online.

–Sexiest.com, an exciting new website where people can post what they think is sexiest, vote on what others post, and discover what the world has found to be the Sexiest, takes a sexiest luggage poll.

–Jet Blue extends refund plan to laid-off flyers.

If you’ve ever wondered what happens to lost and never found luggage, you might be surprised to hear where some of it ends up. Luna Laboo, creator of isthisyourluggage.com, has developed an obsession of sorts with purchasing lost luggage and photographing its contents. Luna enjoys what these contents say about their former owners and created the site in the hopes of reuniting the two. 

Sure, this is getting filed under the weird category, but Luna Laboo doesn’t take it too seriously either. On her site she jokes, “It’s a little odd, but not as odd as stamp collecting, just a little harder to find storage space.”

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Between the news about additional fees, dwindling travel and the swine flu, we thought the aiports could use a litte break. And hey, it’s Friday… there isn’t a better day to talk about bars. ForbesTraveler.com put out a list of America’s Best Airport Bars.

Check it out and have a great weekend!