While you'll also find Monos and Away deals in this roundup, be sure to check out our dedicated Monos Cyber Monday deals and Away Cyber Monday deals posts for more details on those sales.

This is a great time to invest in a quality suitcase set. One of the best deals we've seen is 40% off the Samsonite Centric Hardside Expandable suitcase, our top pick from our guide to the best carry-on bags. We love this bag, which is already affordable at its normal price. Today's sale brings it down to just under $115. That's a great price to pay for a piece of luggage that will likely last you decades.

If you are scouring the internet for other items, take a look at our selection of the best Cyber Monday deals.

Best Cyber Monday deals on carry-on luggage

We're specifically highlighting deals from our guide to the best carry-on. Each suitcase has been tested both using standardized tests and also hands-on traveling experience from two travel editors who each take more than 50 flights a year.

Best Cyber Monday deals on checked luggage

We've pulled out deals from our favorite luggage brands in our guide to the best luggage. Each of these brands makes reliable and thoughtfully designed suitcases that will keep your items safe in the plane's cargo hold.

Best Cyber Monday deals on backpacks, duffels, and luggage accessories

Not all trips require a roller bag, so we're also outlining Cyber Monday discounts on picks from our guides to the best backpack and best travel backpack, along with deals of duffels and packing accessories from our favorite luggage brands.

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Soft-sided vs. hard-sided

In general, we recommend hard-sided luggage for most people, especially for checked bags. Hard-sided luggage will keep your items compact and in place and can withstand heavy handling. You may opt for a soft-sided bag if you're an over-packer since soft suitcases have some stretch to hold more items and are easier to compress to fit in an overhead compartment. To learn more about the differences between soft-side, hard-side, and aluminum carry-ons, check out our guide to the best carry-on luggage.

Size

For carry-on bags, you'll want to stick with a maximum bag size of 22" x 14" x 9", which will fit most domestic and international airline carrier limits. For checked luggage, keep in mind that bigger isn't always better. You may be tempted to buy the biggest checked bag you can find, but extra large bags easily end up over the airline's maximum weight once packed. A checked bag with max dimensions of 29" x 20.5" x 12.5" will accommodate most trips without being too hefty.

Wheels

We always recommend selecting a roller bag with four wheels instead of two. The extra wheels allow for easier maneuverability. 

Extra features

Many luggage brands aim to stand out by offering a fleet of special features. The features we find most useful are built-in combination locks and in-bag compression. Ejectable batteries are popular add-ons, but we find they're not often used and can be a bit of a pain to travel with: Most airlines do not allow these batteries to be checked into a plane's cargo hold. 

Lauren Savoie

Deputy Editor, Reviews & Chair of the Editorial Standards Board




Lauren Savoie is deputy editor of Insider Reviews and chair of Business Insider's editorial standards board. Lauren leads the home, kitchen, pets, and travel teams, and is deeply involved in all editorial decision making, with a particular focus in strategic content planning, career growth of reporters and editors, and strong journalistic standards for the Reviews team. In 2022, Lauren attended The Poynter Institute's Leadership Academy for Women in Media, a prestigious program that recognizes leaders in the journalism industry.Lauren joined the Insider team in 2020, first as kitchen editor and soon after as senior home & kitchen editor, where she pioneered original testing methodologies for buying guides and built a diverse team of freelancers and reporters with deep expertise in product testing. You can see some of her work in our guides to the best flower delivery services, the best pillows, and the best sous vide machines. Before her time at Insider, Lauren was the senior reviews editor at America's Test Kitchen, where she wrote and edited more than 300 in-depth, unbiased buying guides and reviewed more than 1,000 kitchen products. Her work has appeared in Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines, in dozens of cookbooks, on two Emmy-nominated TV shows, and on CNN.com, Fodor's, Yahoo, LifeHacker, the Splendid Table, and more.Lauren is currently Kansas-based, but continues to live like a lifelong Bostonian: drinking Dunkin' iced coffee in the winter, spending summers "down" the Cape, and sharing her home with a cat named Chowder. Say hello at lsavoie.com or on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Learn more about how our team of experts tests and reviews products at Insider.

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