Bellroy Weekender Plus Review - One Year of Use 

This channel is of a rare sort among many carry related channels. Thank you for your concise, informative and critical reviews.

I don’t think you’re being nit-picky at all. These bags are expensive and should be “easy” to use. I’m a short guy as well, 5’-6”, so I’m glad I never purchased this one. If my bag was dragging on the ground while I was holding it from the hand straps, I’d be upset. I love Bellroy, but find it tough to try out their products due to the cost. Thanks for the thorough, honest review. Well done.

Very nice and informative video for Weekender Plus. Thank you, because of your previous video of Transit Backpack Plus in Marine Blue, I've purchased it while it's on sale in my country.

Great review; there’s so many channels that have only positive comments on this. I have a Bellroy tote for my cafe study sesh/office edc, and the organization for Bellroy products seem to be great for small bags. I’ll probably do a bit more research before I replace my old nike duffel.

Great review!

Hi! Belroy recently released a new version of the bag! Do you have any plans on comparing the 2? also do you think this bag could get through airline carry on specifications? I know the technical measurements are pass the allowable dimensions for carry on but the bag seems compressible enough to slip through ahaha Thank you for your video I really appreciate this!

The inner zippered pocket that you "had no use for" is the actual laptop compartment. Maybe that's why you found the external compartment unusable

Sounds like this isn't the bag for you. All of the "negatives" you cite are reasons why I love it and what set it apart from every other duffel. As you said, it's designed for vertical orientation. That keeps it slim against the body and doesn't force me to lean sideways to offset the awkward weight. I could never do one bag travel with other duffels bc they never had sufficient organization I could trust for my tech. This does. And btw, packing sideways is probably why you felt the front pocket was too tight to get into. And the long straps make it easy for me to carry this over my shoulder. If they were shorter they would be awkward to lever my elbow through. It honestly sounds like this bag was designed to optimize in one direction and you kept trying to make it do something else. I loved this design so much I have both the weekender and weekender plus and years later they are still my go to for short trips. Edit: RE: the zippers. They extend past the opening to allow for more visibility into the corners. If the zippers stopped right at the ends of the bag the opening would be smaller bc of the taper. They also tethered it to the side attachment points to make handles for if you are trying to grab it out of an overhead bin or car trunk.

I bought this and within 90 minutes of use the main compartment leather attachment to the zipper came loose. There is an inherent defect in the zip - which leaves a gap, that gets exaggerated easily. Bellroy suggested I fix it with pliers! Poor quality. Shame for what should be a great product.

The first issue is this guy was not packing for a simple weekend. He was over packing and then complaining that the bag was over stuffed seems he needed two bags.