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Suitcase or backpack?Hi I’m planning to travel south east Asia – Vietnam, Malaysia (maybe Thailand) and China, for about 3-4 months. Everyone I see takes a backpack, but the idea of carrying that around doesn’t please me. Would I be okay with a suitcase instead? Did anyone have a bad experience with a suitcase?
Suitcase or backpack? Hi I’m planning to travel south east Asia – Vietnam, Malaysia (maybe Thailand) and China, for about 3-4 months.
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Do the carry-on size backpack and personal item backpack.
We just did a 2 weeks trip with 4 hotels and a boat. 2 suitcases and carry on luggage. It didn’t matter that it was cases balecase we didnt try walk the streets with them. We took a Grab to/from airports ond train stations. Suitcaese are easier for us as the wheels work well at hotels and airports and quite honestly we’d struggle with the lifting as we took plenty with us. You can also at least partly just live out thr suitcase on shorter stops.
I came with a both, I wish I had only a backpack. Laundry is cheap and easy to access. So you bring less then I did.
Just gonna say it. Thailand (both Bangkok and Chiangmai) and Vietnam have some of the worse footpaths I’ve ever seen in my 40 years.
Backpack for day trip only. Still need suite case for the rest.
Depends how much you plan on buying along the way
You need to bring a lot less than you actually think you need, laundry, clothing etc is very cheap.
100% suitcase, been travelling full time 13 months, and couldn’t fathom carrying the huge backpacks everywhere
Get a carry on bag with wheels ,that can also convert to a backpack
You see backpacks for a reason. Wheels don’t work. If you want to bring a wheelie suitcase go ahead but you will end up carrying your suitcase. If you wheel it in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand dust and mud will seize up the bearings and the wheels will fall off. Broken sidewalk, no sidewalk, cars and scooters on the sidewalk, a pop-up store on the sidewalk, a restaurant. School. Church. Car oil change shop, scooter repair.