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Convenient! Comfortable!
No heavy luggage to lug around.
Time saving - maximize your precious holiday time - more time for the experiences and the explorations.
Sometimes you find a special check in desk, usually without a line, for people with no luggage to check. Easily saves you the custom 20 minutes for check in.
Airlines of course do their best to keep check in wait somewhere around there for economy passengers or they can not give a comparatively quicker check in for premium passengers.
No waiting for checked luggage on flight arrival.
It can be an eternal wait: British Airways looses some ten bags on an average flight - I read.
I usually sit at the plane's exit door and is typically out of the airport in a few minutes.
Say
you are going to catch a transport in a few hours. You want to check
out a sight. If you have light luggage you take it with you and after
seeing the sight you head for the transport.
If it
is too inconvenient to carry your luggage you have to leave it somewhere, then later come back to pick it up. This usually means a
couple time consuming detours. If short of time you won't make it.
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You will save money!
No need for taxi because of heavy luggage.
You can walk to the cheap public buses which sometimes stops away from the airport.
You can
walk for hours to find nice accommodation. If overburdened with luggage
you easily opt for the first hotel you find even if it is expensive and
not nice. There is no need to pay for and leave you stuff at
Left Luggage. I remember one place where you had to sign away
practically your life - well at least your electronics and valuables.
Sometimes though I have to fork out money: I had a very early flight.
I had only the alarm of my wristwatch which would not wake me up for
certain. I bought an alarm clock for a couple of dollars. Later I
donated it to the locals.
You can buy some 27 kg of stuff on your trip without having to pay for overweight.
Less wasted time!
I
met a couple sitting midday at a hotel with all their heavy luggage.
They had just checked out. The hotel refused to keep their luggage for
some hours.
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They
had a flight 12 hours later and were going to just wait at the hotel -
quite a bit of waste of probably precious holiday time.
Pack light and experience more during your travels!
Do more with less!
Other advantages
It is not obvious to robbers that I am a traveler with all my funds and stuff on me.
A friend commented: No, it looks like you have been to Seven Eleven shopping groceries.
In a travel guide I read: "Don't make yourself a target on the streets. Carry as little as possible."
You will not be subject to or experience:
Total loss of or theft from your back pack which you checked in or left in the baggage hold of a bus or train.
(In a train station my friend was busy talking to two nice ladies - and his back pack disappeared from his side.)
Bag snatching.
That you just make it onto the next plane when changing planes - but your checked luggage doesn't make it.
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You will stay in nicer and less expensive hotels!
I traveled with a friend. We got off a bus and walked some 30
minutes downhill towards the beach. He had a 20 kilos, 44 lbs, back
pack - I had a couple of kilos, 4 lbs, in a multi pocket vest.
The first hotel we saw was some 200 m, yards, from the beach. We
checked it out, nothing wrong. I stay here! my friend said. Why don't
we check out what they got down there with sea views, terraces or what
not, I asked. No! he said.
I walked down to the beach to see what was there. I didn't find anything spectacular this time - but you never know.
I think my friend was too fatigued to consider walking another 200 m, yards.
Part of the fun of traveling is to stay in (relatively) nice places. When possible I like e.g. sea and mountain views.
Greener travel
If you keep your luggage weight down you keep emissions of green
house gases down as less energy is required for manufacture, transport and disposal of your luggage.
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