Wheelchairs and luggage?

[davidgillon]

Seeing as I'm booked to fly out to Greece, spend a week sailing and then four days in Athens, and I'm travelling with the chair, I need to work out the logistics of luggage when wheeling. I'm aiming to travel fairly light, but bulk does add up regardless. I might just manage with the current bag for the chair-back, I'll have to do a trial load and see, but it will be tight and that doesn't have a lock on it, any thoughts from more experienced wheelies greatly appreciated.

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[sunflowerinrain]

I have an assortment of bags which can be hung over the back. A backpack is good because it already has loop-handles in the right place, but you might want to hang it back-to-front for security.

I've been thinking about an under-chair bag as well, but it would be a nuisance if the wheelchair needs to be folded.

[davidgillon]

I have used a small backpack on my chair (though the one I have isn't great as it's meant for a laptop and has far too much internal padding for general luggage use), but I'm actully thinking about a full size frame rucksack, which is probably long enough it'd need to be hung from me rather than the chair, I have one I can try out, but I may look into a better one (and I think there are a couple of shops in town that should have a reasonable selection)

Underchair bags are unfortunately out as the monster is the under seat cross-braced type.