In Reply to: just take hand luggage & buy a suitcase posted by Roxy on Monday, 11. April 2005 at 19:50 Bali Time:
Saw Polo brand cases (wheels/extending handles etc) in Bintang supermarket in Ubud last year, looked good, price good so bought two for return to uk. They were crap !!, handles were only held on by rivets which did not have flange big enough to stay in side of case, plastic handles broke and extending handle on one came out of case.
OK we should have looked more closely, but they were in bad condition by the time we collected them from baggage hall in Heathrow and by the time we made the train home via tube they had had it.
We now have new cases bought here, more money, but the handles have good strong rivets and are triple stitched to case sides as well these will I know be ok. Moral is , check out cases first before you buy don't be blinded by price.