How to Purchase a Suitcase in Luxembourg City

On arrival at the Hotel Perrin in Luxembourg, I discovered my large suitcase had a hole in it. True, it was not an enormous hole, but I was facing two flights on Thursday (Luxembourg to London and London to Manchester), and I was afraid that the hole might get worse and all my belongings would spill out. 

I poked around on the web for a place in Luxembourg that sold suitcases at a reasonable price. The first shops to surface were leather goods shops in the Haute Ville. Obviously, I wasn’t going to go there as their prices would be eye-watering. Eventually, I found out that there was a place called Auchan. I looked it up and it seemed to be a shopping center in the Kirchberg neighborhood of Luxembourg (a high escarpment where all the EU buildings are located),and I would need a tram to get there. That seemed extremely doable, but what worried me was that I might have to spend as much as €400. 

After lunch, I took myself there, accompanied by my broken suitcase so that I would have a good idea of the size of suitcase I would need to buy. (I need something concrete with me as I am very bad at estimating size.) 

Of course, it was absolutely massive. Fortunately, I found a couple of women standing behind a counter and in my poor French I was able to ask them for a store that sold suitcases, and they told me I needed to go up a level. What I actually discovered was that Auchan is an enormous store located in the Kirchberg shopping center. The lower level is a grocery store, and the upper level (where I was) looked exactly like Costco! (For those of you who don’t live in the United States and are not familiar with Costco, I will just say that it is a chain of enormous stores, so large that it is like being in an aircraft hanger, where you buy everything in bulk at budget prices). Like Costco, Auchan had flat screen TVs, clothes, all kinds of things for the kitchen, dining room, bedroom. 

Eventually, I found the aisle that sold suitcases. Of course, I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for as Auchan doesn’t do soft-sided suitcases (which I prefer). So I had to buy one that was hard-sided. However, because I had my old suitcase with me, I was able to match the size and shape. The reason why I picked this particular one was that it was listed at €99.99 with a 30% discount. So I actually managed to get a new suitcase for €70! I checked the labels, and discovered it was made by Airport (which I had heard good things about online) and had had a number of tests done to ensure durability. 

And so I bought it, thrilled that I had found something that seemed to be durable and well-made for a bargain price!

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