So we bought this because we had another duffel-y Kenneth Cole bag that was fairly awesome, but someone designed it without a side handle, rendering it good ONLY if I had to handle it ONCE or twice on a trip and then only if there were NO stairs involved. BUT This review is about this very nice, easy-to-manage, apparently durable AF, Dakine bag. I love it. AND next trip, I'm taking it because I like that it has 2 equal-sized compartments. TWO things the hub did NOT like...1. the clipping things on the side apparently help it compress (if we shoved that much in this bag it would have gone over the 22kg/50lb. limit) and 2. Because it opens like a clamshell it has to be on the floor or a desk...not the foldable luggage thingy that's so popular in hotels. Big room? Fine....Typical NYC or a Vintage hotel in Europe? You're steppin' over it. OH, and I didn't like how he kept NOT zipping the individual sides, so when we opened it the stuff spilled out, but that's on him. We shuttled this in and out of 4 airports and in and out of 6 hotels in 11 days. Some of them were before elevators (or roads) were a thing, so it was easy to carry out the stairs and drag down cobblestone streets because we couldn't park less than 1km from our hotel due to pedestrian zones. Easy to drag, easy to stuff, easy to manage, and easy to deal with. OH, and easy to ID on the luggage carousel.