Choosing the Best Travel Bag to Customize: A Complete Guide

What is Your Travel Bag For?

Custom bags are a great choice for anyone who frequently travels for work, leisure, and everything in between. Whatever the reason you’re traveling and what you’re bringing with you, we want you to pick the best bag for the journey.

Travel Distance

Depending on where you are traveling to, it can change whether you are looking at renting a car or getting yourself airline tickets. You might even be on a train or a boat; while they’re more unorthodox these days, they still have places that implement these for more long-distance travel. These different travel methods have different amounts of space available to them, and some of them cost extra to store additional bags and items.

Travel Time

Just as essential to distance traveled is the time that it will take to get to your destination. We don’t pack as much for a two day trip as a two week trip. That doesn’t even account for sudden travel days that could pop up because of issues with flights or accidents on the road.

What Are You Doing?

The more you know what is happening on your trips, the better you can plan for more or less space in a smaller bag on top of the larger suitcase you will be bringing. Consider what you’re carrying throughout the trip, or if you’re bringing something back with you after you’re done.

How Long Do You Need this Bag For?

Some bags can handle a little rough housing, some can handle a lot more. Is your journey going to include any water travel? If so, you don’t want to pick a bag that’ll get damaged or worse, not protect what you’re trying to carry with you!

Types of Travel Bags

Backpack

Backpacks are one of the pricier options for customization. But that is simply because of the fact they are made to last a lifetime! Backpacks are the optimal size for any amount of travel to almost anywhere. And the list of events or activities that you can create a custom backpack for is endless.

Messenger Bag

These bags are used to carry mail and messages physically from one place to another. Nowadays, messenger bags are used to carry the computers that all of our email correspondence and connections to the world are. Business buffs know that messenger bags can also carry all of the office essentials like pens, papers, folders of extra information, and more. We can get your employees outfitted for working anywhere.

Tote Bag

A tote is going to be the cheapest choice for customization because of how easy they are to make. Totes are fantastic gift bags at larger events since people have difficulty already carrying all their knick-knacks that they pick up along the way. And they’re sure to remember a kind thought towards them!

Duffle Bag

Whether you spell it “duffle” or “duffel”, these travel bags are ideal for carrying bulkier items. These bags are much wider and spacious than your other options, which is perfect for traveling sports teams or even just going to the gym after work.

Cooler Bag

Bring out the party wherever you are going, by land or by sea! Cooler bags are designed to keep its contents cold and safe from the elements outside of it, so we love these bags for any larger party that is demanding a decent travel distance.

Drawstring Bag

Drawstring bags are a versatile and flexible storage space for any lightweight traveling. It’s a good choice if you want the same wear of a backpack but don’t need the bells and whistles of extra pockets and space. These are also a great gift bag to hand out since they’re quick to make and easy to repurpose after the fact.

How Can I Customize My Travel Bag?

Screen Printing

Printing is the most common and most cost effective way to get your bags customized. Printing is also much better if you are wanting a much larger design on your bag because it’s far less labor intensive. However, you can only print so many colors before the price starts to skyrocket.

Embroidery

Embroidery is the preferred choice for when you refuse to compromise on color. A bag with embroidery will have an outstanding texture and will scream quality. However, your logo can only go so big with embroidered bags before your wallet will also scream.

The Value of a Custom Bag

Whatever bag you decide to use, it’s the customization that can really give your bags their perceived value. The more exclusive you make someone feel, the more likely they will remember you. Mainly because they will get so much use out of the bags when produced right! We can help make sure that the value of your custom bags is optimized as much as possible. If you’d like to have more travel gear check out the different custom mugs you can order with us.

NEED MORE TIPS?

Looking for more ways to custoize your future travel bag? Check out this blog from Bolt Printing on How to Choose the Best Custom Bag