Travel Set 3.0

Best bag I’ve ever owned.

This is my 3rd Minaal bag and I am Minaal fo life at this point. It’s the bag that you can always cram one more thing into if you need to and never worry about the zipper breaking. It’s made of Kevlar and fairy dust I’m pretty sure. Thoughtful design in how it can flip between a backpack and hand-held. Has enough space where I can travel around the world with it as a carry-on and always trust it will fit in the overhead bin. Cannot recommend highly enough.

Worth the wait...

By wait I don't mean delivery was slow. But I've been borrowing a first-run Minaal bag for work missions overseas for a decade; thanks Bart! It was the wait to save my pocket money. But save I did, and worth it is. All the improvements to the original are good ones, and the quality and utilitarian design ethos remains the same. if Dieter Rams flew economy on missions to far-flung places, he'd rock one of these bad boys.

Thoughtful review

Love the bags, especially the larger one. Don't love the "flappy" side cables, and I think a medium sized bag might be more practical, because visual of the giant bag draws attention, and asian airlines have a 15lb limit that you'll hit even with the daily. It would be nice to have something more low-key. The lightweight packing cubes are real smart. Not only are the margins prolly fantastic, but its a genuinely great way to save on weight. Truthfully though I find using the inner pockets as cubes to be more practical. Nitpicky stuff: the sizing dimensions under the straps are not accurate unless its packed out very specifically - prolly a good selling point but not actually useful. The "briefcase mode" straps hiding again is prolly a selling point but in reality it seems pretty useless, the bags never going to be weighted correctly to hold sideways, id rather do away with the zippers and just have it be a backpack. As an internet marketer I appreciate a lot of the things I don't "love" as being prolly great for business. But as a bag, there is a lot I really like about this bag (especially the carry-on.) So overall thanks for a sweet product. My dream idea ramble: Carry-on-esque bag, but sized in the middle of the 2. In the laptop compartment, a protective/padded sleeve/"tech case" (passport, cash, etc.), so if you do get weight checked at the gate you can just pull that out and check the bag. I know you can do that already with the daily, but I find a crossover bag to be much more useful to me than the daily is. But again, that's me. I find the Northface Surge to be an (almost) perfect daily carry bag, so a minaal take on this (lightweight design, minimal but useful "built in packing cubes" (the mesh pockets), clamshell opening.. I'd buy this in a heartbeat. Hope that was more constructive than criticism. I'm a bag nerd like anyone else filing out this survey so feel free to ask if you want any elaboration.