Sojourn Porter 30-Liter Recycled Nylon Travel Pack

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This pack is extremely versatile. I use it daily for commuting to my office job with a laptop and can easily pack a week of clothes for a quick trip. Osprey has great service! My first one was chewed up by a puppy and they replaced it under their excellent warranty.

I’m really pleased and impressed with my new Sojourn Porter 30L – the perfect size for a short break (or even a week if you pack light!). It’s really thoughtfully designed with so many useful features, in particular the tuckaway straps, and the sidewalls which provide protection and sturdiness and enable the bag to be folded away for storage.

Like all osprey bags this one is really cleverly designed and has a multitude of useful pockets, and importantly for me a waist strap when used in its ‘rucksack’ mode, so that if you’re humping your luggage during travel it feels solid and fits your back well. However, I don’t think it packs down as tidily as I would have hoped. The many straps and panels mean it’s a solid unit of a bag, and therefore doesn’t squish down very easily. I had hoped it would work for under seat baggage on an airline, but in reality its likely to become and overhead locker bag with the benefit of the rucksack straps with waist band. Perhaps the 30l capacity and measured dimensions would have given me a clue on this, but I’m not sure its much different in practice to my slightly larger holdalls. Maybe time will tell. I’m on the fence at the moment as to how useful this bag will be.