Cabin Max - www.cabinmax.com

This company exceeded my expectations! Attractive and Stylish. I am delighted to receive the Cabin Max Backpack bag, Product was delivered on time with perfect packaging and excellent condition. It's easy to pack a week's worth of holiday stuff including my laptop also...

Its tough, and lighter than expected when empty. This thing is the clown car of luggage - you just keep packing and it just keeps fitting in. And the slots and compartments are a real plus. This is really the best way I've found to maximize your permitted carry-on allotment.

I was very pleased with my Cabinmax Berlin. It was accepted on both Easyjet and Ryanair.

I had made an budget airline ( wind) cheater out of some kite fabric, netting, shoelaces to compartmentize, and zips so that nothing fell out. I wore this for the weigh in and gauge check and then repacked and extended once we were through the checks and Ryanair weight in. I could also pack extras like bulky breakfast crisp breads and some water bottles that we bought after arrival as we were travelling around to different destinations.

Fully packed it bulges, so it would not have fitted into the budget airline size checker gauge without me wearing my luggage in the cheater! I did look a bit like a bag lady!!!!

Unfortunately after 12 days of travelling the top handle started to rip of, but I rang gadgets uk and they have sent me a replacement as it had a three year guarantee and this has extra stitching round where the old one ripped, so hopefully the new one will last longer.

Doesn't look chic or do anything fancy. However it holds a massive amount of stuff while remaining easy to pack and comfortable to carry. Here in the USA the airlines seem to allow a larger carry-on and I have never seen a carry-on weighed - yet. The construction looks to be durable, and not having to subject it to the tender mercies of baggage handlers should help.

Anyone travelling on a budget or just wanting to take advantage of the cheap tickets from Ryanair et-al should get a "Cabin Max" bag which must be simply the biggest cabin baggage that you can take with you on board.

Is is the same dimentions that many no frills cariers use in their hand luggage allowance which makes taking 10kgs easy.

It has various pockets and great backpack style straps as well as a padded back.

But clearly the best feature is the fact that when empty the Cabin Max only weighs 850 grams! Just google "biggest hand luggage" or similar and look for the Cabin Max.

We are 4 people in our family and that means 40kgs and 176L of luggage for free!!!