Trunk or Suitcase for Boarding School

[Stuffragette]

Which should I get? I imagine it would have to be two suitcases. My dad is v disorganised

The key is storage. If they have trunk storage, trunks are best. John Lewis used to sell them. My DDs used them as coffee tables too!

No girl ever sticks to 4 changes of clothes! As if!

Thank you marants! I have been educated!

For my DS we used a big wheeled suitcase, but we had to unpack straightaway so I could bring it back home.

Suitcases are easier to manage than trunks. Thinking practically, you will need to be able to carry your own luggage from airport/station to the school and within the school to your own room and then to the luggage storage room.

You will need a suitcase for exeats, weekends with friends, school trips and half terms anyway.

The few students who started out with trunks when DD started boarding in Y7 ditched them pretty quickly. Now she is going into Y11 no-one has them.

DS is starting Y7 this year and I have bought him wheeled hold-all shaped suitcases. These are good for travelling on overseas school trips are they fit into luggage spaces easily and when unpacked can be stored under beds.

My son's school states suitcase, no trunks, and weekend bag for exeats etc. I think they are quite short on storage space in his house particularly, and we will find out in a week if what I'm sending him with is too big ... if it is I will certainly offer to bring it home and take a case back near the end of term as appropriate. My daughter has always had a suitcase (plus weekend bag, backpack, assorted plastic bags etc!). Thinking about it, at prep school the case on its own was generally enough, it's only at senior school that she's had enough non-uniform time for her casual clothes to multiply :)

Both my DC, at different schools, take suitcases, but DS's has to live in his room so it's a soft large duffel bag with wheels kind of thing. DD takes suitcases and they store them so she takes ones that can fit inside each other, which also means that she has a small one for exeat and half term when clothes must be swapped (apparently). And for a DD forget 3-4 changes of clothes!!! They take lots and you and the kit list have little say in the matter. DD even took in a 6' Christmas Tree last year. Most schools don't do trunks anymore as so many children travel by plane or train. But email your HM they will tell you and be pleased you asked. A lockable tuck box is always a good idea.

They all use cases at my dd school.
in fact if you are taking them, you just fill the car up.
I go in and make the bed, just to help, they normally do their own beds and some laundry. Dd hangs her clothes, in between hugging other random people and speaking very quickly
Done in about 30 mins.