Are Trunkis worth it for a four-year-old on holiday?

[1stTimeMummy2021]

Going on a cruise and to Disneyland Paris this year and I'm wondering if Trunkis are worth it or if there is better luggage for my princess obsessed 4 year old, any advice?

I find them so annoying 😂 ended up carrying my son's and it's a clunky thing. Got him a nice backpack this year! Much better.

I think they are the most useless item ever. Impractical as a bag, shit as a mode of transport.
Look around an airport and you'll see many pissed off parents carrying trunkis.

I think no. I have a 4 year old and I can’t imagine him having any interest in one whatsoever. He likes being “grown up” and he’d get more excited about a backpack.

I love ours. We have used it many times and it’s great because they have somewhere to sit down too. It holds a suprising amount of stuff

No they’re the most stupid, impractical, annoying invention ever. Unless you mean the booster seat backpack- those are quite handy.

They are the work of the devil - limited space, a pain to drag, difficult to get things in and out of on a plane ….. I’d stick with a rucksack

I was considering them for ages for DS (now 5) and we didn't end up getting one.
All I could picture was me dragging it along while he either walked off or was pestering for a carry AND still having to drag the damn thing around on top of that (after the buggy years were over of course).
We have a backpack, easy to carry if he gets fed up with it. He's had to get used to walking and waiting in line, he is fine with it. Sometimes he will sit on one of our suitcases and is wheeled around.

No, no, no and no again 😂 they are the most annoying useless piece of luggage ever. They are bulky, heavy, don’t fit anything in, hard to close and a night mare when your child falls off it in the airport and busts their nose (ask me how I know … 😅)

Mine quite enjoyed theirs from when they were tiny until they were about 6/7. They have normal cain suitcases now which are much more practical though!

We had one but wouldn’t do it again. My kids would quickly lose interest in it at the airport, and then my husband and I would end up lugging it around. They have their own backpacks now, much much better all around.

Aw my little one loved theirs and the bigger IT luggage version! We didn’t find it that bad to pull them about on it

i loved ours, used it for both my children.

My children loved them and they were incredibly useful. For a four year old I’d buy second hand though, you might only get a year out of it.

Me and dh reminiscing recently about trunkis saying you didn't see people with them now and laughing about how shit they were. Didn't realise they were still sold. They are awful. Really uncomfortable to carry, unnecessarily heavy, child never wants to play on it after initial novelty wears off, useless design whereby if you fill it and then open it everything falls out. So not even useful as storage.

Wow we love ours, and have had it for 6 years! It is still going strong! Fits plenty in it, and my 5 year old (her sister had it before her) pulls it with no trouble.

My 7 year old still loves hers, I have always found it a bloody nuisance. Bulky, yet can’t hold anything a4 sized. When you open it the stuff falls out everywhere. Hard rigid plastic so can’t be squashed down at all. Avoid!!

We’ve never flown with it though. I had visions of pulling my daughter through the airport on it but didn’t fly for years cos covid and can’t even remember if we took it the one time we did fly.

Don’t do it! You’ll regret it forever

I’ve just come back from a holiday with a 4 year old. He enjoyed pulling our little cabin suitcase for a short time. I saw a few trunkis in the airport and didn’t think oh I wish we’d got one.

Honestly I think the fewer pieces of luggage you have the better, I’d put everything in your normal big suitcases and just get her a little backpack if she wants something for herself.

Defo not, we had one but sold it and got the mini micro cabin scooter so much better, it’s got a little bag on the front and it fold up to fit cabin size, mine go through the airport no trouble now, don’t even have to carry them!

100% this!!
Also a serious H&S risk to other people's ankles if your child has a rare moment of towing it.

The amount of people we saw recently dragging their kids along on these completely oblivious to the people they were cutting across was unreal!! They seemed like a total pain in the bum as well.

I agree. I’m still stuck with 2 of them that were bought for the DCs. We’d never have bothered with them.

Trunki suitcases are annoying but the backpack booster seats are great for holidays.

No don't get a trunki! Get one of the Micro suitcases - either the one which has a scooter built in, or one that turns into a trike they can sit on (and the suitcase bit can come off the trike so when you get to your destination you can use it when you're out and about). Both are far more practical than the trunki.

Backpack booster is brilliant. Took a Gruffalo trunki from Uk to Nz and it nearly got binned in Singapore. Don’t get the suitcase! But if you ask my now teenage dc they would say go for it!

grudgingly I will admit that the hated Gruffalo trunki came into its own once in a 90 minute immigration queue