Vancropak Carry On Backpack, Expandable Large Travel Backpack for Men/Women, 40L Airplane Approved Luggage Bag Business Weekender Bag, Lightweight Water Resistant Daypack for Flight, Blue

I cannot rave about this bag enough. It's nice looking, durable, spacious, versatile and just plain awesome. I crammed so much stuff in this bag for traveling abroad, no one could believe it. Toiletries, iPad, books, snacks, a change of clothes, medications, tissues, a travel pillow, blanket, headphones, flip flops, a notebook, markers and more. The bag expands, if necessary, and has plenty of clasps, zippers, and elastic organizer straps to keep everything in its place. On my way back home, the Airport Giftshop was calling my name. I bought 3 bone china cups, 2 small bowls, a stained glass window hanging and some candy. Guess where all that stuff went? Yep...right into this cool backpack, all wrapped in tissue so they wouldn't break! The wide straps make it comfortable to use as a back pack, BUT ALSO, there is a nice padded handle if you want to carry it like a duffle bag. I love this bag. I got the eyeroll from my daughter for bringing so much crap with me and then buying more stuff at the airport, but hey, I carried it all with ease (and, because of that eyeroll, I'm not sharing that candy with her!). This bag is EVERYTHING!

This carry-on backpack is very practical. Easy to handle, perfect for air travel where you only need to carry your things and don't want to pay fees for carry-on bags or large suitcases. It complies with all airline regulations, and most importantly, you can fill it with your items. It also has a zippered extension. It's very good quality and very useful. I ended up buying three of these for family trips.

Perfect carryon dimensions, no laptop pocket = more room for two weeks of clothing, compression zipper and four straps on outside to assist in compressing the backpack to maintain carryon dimensions, elastic "x" strap inside holds clothing secure, padded back for comfortable wearing, padded handles top and side for easy overhead stowing, two small and one very large exterior flat pockets, one very large inside mesh pocket, and one small secure pocket that rides against your back. Padded shoulder straps with chest strap, zippered stow pocket for shoulder straps, two sturdy rings low on either side (could clip on waist strap or small front pack). No water bottle pocket or charging port (not needed on this trip.) This is the no nonsense carryon I've been seeking! I bought the green (on sale) but it'd be nice to have a greater choice in colors. Seems sturdy - will edit this review if it fails me.

The media could not be loaded. I bought 5 of these bags for a family trip to Europe. We carried all of our stuff, one bag per person. In general the bags worked great. I did have one seam on a bag start to pull out. I am hoping customer support can fix it but I don't know how to make contact.My review rating of 4 stars is based on my feeling that the bag is well designed and worked well in the style of travel we did. I took off one star as there are a few places the bag could have been improved and one bag had a seam failure.The main compartment area worked great for clothing and proved to have enough structure to allow me to pack a painting in one bag with just some cardboard for support and the art came through unscathed after 2 weeks and 5 moves. In general, I like the structure of the main pocket with the zippered flap it was easy to store smaller clothing items and keep bulkier stuff in the main space.The front side pockets are a little more complicated. I liked the front 2 straight zipper pockets. The larger lower pocket fits a quart liquid storage bag perfectly for easy access going through airport security. The larger U-shaped pocket really could use a double zipper. I really liked the storage space but I found that if I left it unzipped and then opened the main compartment everything would fall out. I think with a double zipper it would have been easier to keep it in a partially closed but accessible state. With the large flap the double zipper would allow for opening it just part way and not allowing the whole flap to open up. The unzippered pockets inside that flap are mostly useless as stuff tended to fall out of the pockets. The zippered areas inside were generally good, although on one bag I had a seem fail on the larger internal zipper. Given this was our first trip this makes me a little suspect of the stitching quality. I hope nothing else fails and that Vancropak is able to help get it replaced.The practical usability for carrying is quite good. The padding on the pack and straps were comfortable and I never felt like the straps dug in. I used the backpack and both the top and side straps at various times and I was grateful for all those options. I am not sure I understand why the backpack straps are designed to be tucked inside the zippered back pocket. As a general design principal I would have rather had a zippered tablet/laptop pocket instead of stowable backpack straps. We kept the backpack straps out all the time and I can't think of a usage model where I would want to stow the straps. Making the straps come out from the zippered back pocket made the pocket mostly useless. It also would be nice if there was an option for a waist strap. There were some times I would have appreciated that type of support.These packs facilitated a great vacation. They were easy to carry, easily fit in the various airlines' overhead space, and had about the right amount of storage for a 3 week trip with access to laundry. As mentioned one bag had a minor seam failure, it is hard to say if that was just an unlucky bag or if they have quality issues.I would have given 5 stars if the bag had a double zipper on the front u shaped pocket and we hadn't had the quality issue. The waist strap and back pocket would have been nice improvements but didn't cause a particular problem in our use case.

I just finished a two week long adventure in Japan. This back pack worked as my personal item. It is very sturdy and rugged with many zippered pockets for organization. The shoulder straps are comfortable and adjustable. It has a compression feature as well that worked very well for my trip. We packed it FULL of stuff so that it was quite heavy and lugged it around Japan and then for a 4 day camping trip. It has held up REALLY well. I am quite pleased with it and would heartily recommend it. It was also delivered in a nice, sturdy package so there was no surprise rips or tears when it arrived.

The media could not be loaded. If I could give it more stars, I would. It fits a lot and it was a great carry-on item for a 3 week trip to Italy. I got one in white/brown and one in black for my 2 teens and it carried us through 3 weeks with room to spare. It is functional, comfortable, looks slick and easy to carry, clean, pack and unpack. It allowed us to get around easily without wheeling a heavy suitcase on cobble stones and busy streets, board crowded trains easily, and run to catch said trains without a suitcase slowing us down. Highly recommend for easier travel.