Eagle Creek Travel Gear Tarmac 25 Carry-On,Black
- Ultra light weight construction and sleek design for the cross-over business/adventure traveler
- Built in Pack-It organization - Shoe Box and Stash Cache for optimal use of space
- Slip-away luggage tag and color contrast helps identify your bag
- Pockets designed to fit Pack-It - suggested solutions included
- ES2 Wheel and Touch Point Handle System
Product Description
Capacity: 5125 cu in / 84 L Expanded: 5550 cu in / 91 L Dimensions: 17 x 25 x 12.5 in / 43 x 64 x 32 cm Expanded: 17 x 25 x 14.5 in / 43 x 64 x 37 cm Weight: 10 lbs / 4.5 kg Fabric: Helix Double Box, Helix Dual Ripstop, 1680D Ballistic, 210D Nylon Oxford
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This is a great suitcase. Light weight. durable. An adult child appropriated my old Tarmac 25 and I went straight to Amazon to get another. This new version seems lighter with some internal improvements. The actual seller was Luggage Pros and the transaction itself went just fine.
Rating: 5 / 5
Eagle Creek Travel Gear Tarmac 25 Carry-On,Black
I took this bag on an 8 day trip and was able to fit all my stuff in there pretty handily. The pockets on the inside flap allow you to open the bag without everything falling everywhere each time you open it. If you haven’t bought new luggage recently, you’ll be surprised how light this one is. Get one of the colored bags, it definitely stands out on the luggage carousel.
Rating: 4 / 5
Eagle Creek Travel Gear Tarmac 25 Carry-On,Black
This is a great bag. I have one I’ve used for a year. I actually ordered it for my husband, but I started using it. Now I’m ordering another one for him.
Rating: 5 / 5
Eagle Creek Travel Gear Tarmac 25 Carry-On,Black
One note about this review: It appears that since I bought my Tarmac 25 bag, Eagle Creek has tweaked this bag a little. The newer ones have an easier to use add-a-bag strap connection, a built-in shoe compartment, and perhaps a slightly different kind of fabric in some parts. However, I’ve seen the newest version of this bag in retail stores and I believe that this review of the earlier version of this bag is valid and useful, because the bag I’m seeing in stores seems to be nearly the same as the bag I own. It doesn’t seem to have been radically re-designed, and they didn’t change the name of the product.
I’ve had my Eagle Creek Tarmac 25 bag, in the Palm Green color, for three years. I gulped a bit at the prices of the Eagle Creek luggage, but I was heading out for a month-long tour of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. The itinerary included ten commercial flights, meaning ten opportunities for my one allowed checked bag to be bounced, jounced, dropped and smashed while out of my sight. I just didn’t want to risk having a cheap suitcase fall apart while I was on tour on the other side of the world. As noted, the tour company allowed us one checked bag (with strict size and weight limits) and one carry-on which because we’d be on small planes and buses, couldn’t be the typical wheeled 22-inch US domestic carry-on type. So I got this bag and the Eagle Creek Travel Gear Small 08 Tarmac Flight Bag (or the 2007 version thereof, not sure if the “08″ designation makes any difference except type of nylon).
This bag not only took the big Down Under tour in stride, it’s since been to Peru (where a Lan Peru aircraft cargo hatch door was slammed down on it, broke the TSA lock but the bag is unscathed except for a zipper pull tag that was easy to replace, didn’t hurt the zipper itself), Thailand, London and various places in the USA. it still looks great, and the gray and green colors make it a little easier to spot on the baggage claim carousels than the universal black. Someone said this line of luggage looks too “backpack-like” for them, but I like it.
At the time I was shopping for it, there weren’t as many lightweight luggage choices as there are now that US airlines are more aggressive in enforcing their luggage weight limits. But if I had it to do over again, I’d still buy this bag. It’s a quality item in all respects. It’s lightweight but very sturdy.
I like the inner compartment organization. I’ve packed using packing cubes (the Eagle Creek and eBags brands), and sometimes a packing folder - and sometimes without those aids. But the inner compartments and the snug-down straps in the main compartment allow for packing my stuff securely. The bag when empty and when properly packed is very stable and easy to maneuver on its wheels.
The wheels: they are not the cheap-looking little smooth plastic wheels I see on so many bags. These are large rubber wheels, with treads. They are well-placed, at the sides of the bag, and the whole area is reinforced with hard plastic so that you can wheel this thing up and down stairs without ripping the fabric. I’ve gotten used to wheeling my Eagle Creek bag smoothly along at a good pace, while people around me with other kinds of rolling bags, are fighting to keep theirs from tipping over or getting stuck. The flight bag I mentioned above, slips over the handle of this bag and together they make a nice single unit that’s easy to roll along. I’m not sure I’d want to take the London Underground between Heathrow airport and my hotel, with less stable and easy to manage rolling luggage. But I’ve done it with this bag and its matching flight bag, no worries.
Rating: 5 / 5
Eagle Creek Travel Gear Tarmac 25 Carry-On,Black