Lugging heavy bags on public transportation. Damaged or lost luggage. How much would you pay to avoid those hassles? Companies like Luggage Free and Luggage Forward offer white glove service to ship your bag from your home or hotel directly to your destination. Deliveries are guaranteed on time and can be tracked.
Every business owner and customer-facing employee has heard the saying "the customer is always right."
This makes the companies who say it -- and the customers who hear it -- feel good. But it’s simply not always true in the real world.
Early on as my company, Luggage Forward, was being developed, I received a valuable piece of advice: "Customers are not always right. They’re just never wrong." This small, but important distinction has enabled me to approach customers' issues in a more productive manner.
Membership with Inspirato with American Express connects people to exclusive traveling luxuries. Inspirato partners with a wide variety of companies to make traveling and lodging easy for the members. Avis and Cadillac are two examples of partner companies that work with Inspirato. Members can receive discounts on rental vehicles so that they can enjoy their vacations in style. Travelers who are planning to take ski trips can visit Folsom Custom Skis for a special price on custom ski sets. Luggage Forward may be one of the most beneficial services of them all: This is a service that provides a pickup of a traveler’s baggage and sports equipment, and the service will ship it to any destination.
"There are ways of flying with skis and snowboards in tow that get you and your gear to your final destination without too much hassle"...."or, you can skip the hassle altogether and ship your gear ahead of time. Companies like Luggage Forward and even FedEx have dedicated programs for shipping ski gear from door to door."
7. Light on Luggage
Parents will no longer have to lug every bag through the terminal while trying to keep their kids from running in every direction. TRS Ballistic Luggage has a unique bag system, which allows each bag to connect and roll at once. When not in use, the bags can store inside one another like nesting dolls.
Or, just save the hassle altogether and ship your luggage with Luggage Forward. Luggage Forward will pick up your bags from your home or office and deliver them directly to your hotel, rental home, or cruise ship.
Luggage Forward, a company that ships your luggage so you don’t have to check it, ships skis and snowboards to more than 200 destinations worldwide. They pick up your items at a home or office and deliver it directly to a second home, office, rental property or hotel. No worries about navigating the airport with skis or arriving to your destination only to find your skis didn’t make it.
Packing light always eliminates airport hassle, but doing so is especially difficult during the holiday season. Save time at the airport by shipping your presents to Grandma in advance. Services like Luggage Forward (which includes door-to-door service and no additional packaging on your end) and Luggage Free (which costs as little as $2.20/lb for domestic deliveries) ship worldwide and track and monitor your luggage daily to ensure it reaches its final destination safe and sound.
This week, Luggage Forward announced the acquisition of its eighth competitive brand since 2009, LugLess, which was featured on the ABC TV show “Shark Tank” and was recently named to Entrepreneur Magazine's “100 Brilliant Companies” list.
With the acquisition, Luggage Forward’s brands now collectively represent more than 50 years of luggage shipping experience.
Luggage shipping startup LugLess, which Tnooz covered earlier this year, has sold to Luggage Forward, a larger player in the space. The startup garnered mainstream press after being featured on ABC’s The Shark Tank, and was named a “100 Brilliant Company” by Entrepreneur Magazine.