11 nights - Cabin bag

[Eliza9917]

AIBU to think I can pack for 11 nights away with just a cabin bag? We will have a washing machine. Going to Spain. Early spring.

What would you pack? I haven't seen the cabin bag yet to know exactly what size it is.

Yes, wear all heavy clothes. Take clothes that don't crinkle. You can wash clothes there. Take micro towel or buy towel there and leave it. Buy toiletries there

@HildaZelda We can go away from fri-sun with one weekend bag between us, although thats to stay at one of our mums, where we have towels and other things we might need that we didn't take - aklthough we don't normally need anything else other than the towels.

We can go away fri-mon with one weekend bag/hold all each if taking towels.

I’ve done similar, not in Spain, but in a couple of countries where the clothes were cheap and I simply bought stuff there.

The idea was to leave them when I left but I liked some of them so ended up posting them home!

I would 100% do this. Get a towel like this they fold up small and dry quickly.

Get a bag like this which is built to cabin specs and is squashy so you can ram it in .

Buy shampoo etc when you get there and take a couple of bars of soap instead of shower gel. Buy some bottles to decant the beauty products you really can’t do without or replace with non-liquid stuff (eg Revolution new stock foundation if that’s your bag).

With a washing machine this would be easy.

Easy OP, we only travel with cabin bags, so much easier, than the carousel panic! LOL 😂 I don’t miss that! Have a lovely time.

@Eliza1197, I just can't come to terms with it. Do you mind me asking what do you actually have in there? or more to the point, what do you leave out!

@HildaZelda I don't know yet, I haven't seen the case. We are borrowing some from someone who bought the exact size for this airline.

I was thinking I'd wear:

Trainers
Jeans
Tshirt
Hoodie
Jacket

And take:
Towel
Flip flops
Ballet pumps
Leggings
Another tshirt
A couple of tops
Two daytime dresses
One black dress
Knee length denim crops if I can fit them in
A couple of vest tops
Underwear
Hair straighteners
Plug adapters/chargers
Toiletries I can't buy out there/make up/toothbrush/contact lenses

Then I'll take a flat cross body bag and put that under my clothes and have my glasses and handbag things in there.

I don't think I'll need much else?

Yes if it is a cabin bag of the maximum size. We always travel hand luggage only. Did 2.5 weeks in Slovenia last summer. It's only a problem if you need lots of very bulky outdoors/sports kit. We wore our walking boots. Towels can be a problem too if your accommodation doesn't provide them and you don't want to use the thin camping towels. On short cheap flights baggage fees can add a lot. I like keeping my luggage with me - no waiting around. And we often travel about quite a bit during a trip, so just having one little bag to pull along is much easier.

For handbag I pack a folded Le Pilage for use at destination and I wear a small flat cross body bag with passport wallet and phone under my PAC-a-mac which I zip up for boarding.

I think the villa might have towels can you ask before you go? Hamman towels are very thin, if you buy them make sure you wash them multiple times before use without fabric conditioner so that they become super absorbent.

DP booked it today so I'm going to see if I can see what's included on the website in a min.

Tea towels, bath mats, hand towels and bath towels are provided but they can't be used around the pool or taken to the beach.

We always just take cabin bags. We've just come back from 18 days in India and managed just fine.
1 short dress
1 pair linen trousers
1 pair shorts
Longer silk skirt
Vest top
Short sleeve t shirt
2 short sleeve cotton blouses
Thin cotton card I
3 pairs knickers
Bra
1 pair socks
Cossie/bikini
3/4 leggings
Pair of birkis
turkish towel
Plastic bag with small toothpaste, piece of soap, Avon skin so soft, factor 30, all decanted into 100pm bottles where necessary. Scrub glove for shower, some muslin pieces,
Zip folder with adapter plugs, charger cables and mozzie plug ins

Wear to go
Long linen dress
Long leggings
Trainers
Merino jumper
Shawl/pashmina
Packable down jacket in a bag - used as a pillow on the plane as well as if it gets chilly

If you have a cross-body bag under your clothes, take it out after check-in but before security. They don't care how many bags you have, but metal will set off the beepy machine. You can hide the bag again for boarding.
Plug/charger-wise, bring a Euro plug with multiple USB outlets, it's a lot smaller than a load of adapters (especially as you're looking to move out there anyway), then bring USB cables for devices.

The absolute last thing I want to be doing on holiday is searching for and buying all my toiletries or washing and drying clothes every few days!

^This.

Why on earth would anyone want to faff with a washing machine to do the laundry when on holiday is beyond me, but each to their own I suppose.

Bunging some stuff in the machine is hardly a faff though, especially if you've brought stuff which doesn't need ironed.

People choose to "faff" with a washing machine as they'd rather have an extra £50 or £60 to spend per person on ice cream or mojitos rather than paying for a large hold bag. And some people don't want the sort of holiday where you're changing outfits three times a day.

Re cabin bag but no handbag. Take a squashy hand bag and a cabin bag. Just make sure you can squash the handbag in the cabin bag at check in (if you check in at the airport) and at the time you're boarding. No one cares at other times. Last time I travelled easyjet I just packed my handbag at the gate and took it out on the plane - it was a smallish cross-body bag, no-one batted an eyelid or queried it.

The absolute last thing I want to be doing on holiday is searching for and buying all my toiletries or washing and drying clothes every few days! It doesn't have to be every few days! We plan for a week's worth of clothes. If you are on holiday for 2 weeks or more, do you really want to be storing up all that dirty washing festering in your case to deal with when you come back? DH is in charge of laundry here, but he always prefers to come home with as much clean washing as possible and avoid that chore at home.

Maybe we are a little odd, but I have happy memories of trying to figure out how to use the launderette in Nara, Japan. And of pegging out laundry in front of an amazing mountain view in Slovenia.

And we take all our toiletries in travel size containers. If we run out of shower gel it is hardly a big deal to pick some up in the supermarket.

But everyone has different holidays, We just don't do dressing up every night, or sitting around in an all inclusive hotel/resort. For anything more than a few days we'd always choose to self cater.

This isn't just a normal holiday, we're going to see if we'd like to live there so it made sense to us to go self catering to see how we get on with everyday things. We will do all the touristy things as well as looking around the whole area and sitting by the pool, we've got plenty of time do different stuff.

I have travelled for 2 months with kids. 5 cabin bags between 6 of us.
I never bring towels. Usually dirt cheap to buy.

I managed two weeks - one in America on a business trip, one in Italy on holiday - on a cabin bag plus small handbag.

Do it OP, I believe in you!

I can do it!