Bought this for my daughter to take to Italy for a semester. She needed something big, durable and safe. I was very impressed with the bag when it arrived. It is huge and carried everything she needed for an entire semester. At the end of her semester she was doing some train travel and had to ship this bag back. The bag was covered in wrap and tape and looked like it had been thorough hell. Once we got it unwrapped and unloaded it, basically looked brand new.