I've discovered Minaal thx to Youtube video showing marketing strategies that the company used for lauching the first bag.
When I've watched on the website, I was fan of the history of the founders.
I've stayed in New Zealand for 3 months on holiday and I love the fashion around digital nomad with this kind of bags.
I was worried about the price... Really expensive for my budget.
I pre-ordered the 3.0 and now... I'm really happy of it. With the time, I noticed I've used mostly the little one (bigger one is only for travelling a few days).
This bags are with me all the time and if I had to choose another bag, I'll buy Minaal again and again ! Even if I become one day an influencer, I'd like to work with this brand.
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This is my 3rd Minaal bag and I am Minaal fo life at this point. It’s the bag that you can always cram one more thing into if you need to and never worry about the zipper breaking. It’s made of Kevlar and fairy dust I’m pretty sure. Thoughtful design in how it can flip between a backpack and hand-held. Has enough space where I can travel around the world with it as a carry-on and always trust it will fit in the overhead bin. Cannot recommend highly enough.

It's great! I've been and am planning on living of the Carry-On v3 for the next 3 months at least.
It's extremely thought out, surprising me with little details when I least expect it, like all the smaller pockets being accessible without taking it off from your back.

The support and communication is fantastic as well, I feel there's a lot of pride taken in building these backbags and I felt that during any support I got.

By wait I don't mean delivery was slow. But I've been borrowing a first-run Minaal bag for work missions overseas for a decade; thanks Bart! It was the wait to save my pocket money. But save I did, and worth it is. All the improvements to the original are good ones, and the quality and utilitarian design ethos remains the same. if Dieter Rams flew economy on missions to far-flung places, he'd rock one of these bad boys.

Love the bags, especially the larger one.
Don't love the "flappy" side cables, and I think a medium sized bag might be more practical, because visual of the giant bag draws attention, and asian airlines have a 15lb limit that you'll hit even with the daily. It would be nice to have something more low-key.

The lightweight packing cubes are real smart. Not only are the margins prolly fantastic, but its a genuinely great way to save on weight. Truthfully though I find using the inner pockets as cubes to be more practical.

Nitpicky stuff: the sizing dimensions under the straps are not accurate unless its packed out very specifically - prolly a good selling point but not actually useful. The "briefcase mode" straps hiding again is prolly a selling point but in reality it seems pretty useless, the bags never going to be weighted correctly to hold sideways, id rather do away with the zippers and just have it be a backpack.

As an internet marketer I appreciate a lot of the things I don't "love" as being prolly great for business. But as a bag, there is a lot I really like about this bag (especially the carry-on.) So overall thanks for a sweet product.

My dream idea ramble: Carry-on-esque bag, but sized in the middle of the 2. In the laptop compartment, a protective/padded sleeve/"tech case" (passport, cash, etc.), so if you do get weight checked at the gate you can just pull that out and check the bag. I know you can do that already with the daily, but I find a crossover bag to be much more useful to me than the daily is. But again, that's me. I find the Northface Surge to be an (almost) perfect daily carry bag, so a minaal take on this (lightweight design, minimal but useful "built in packing cubes" (the mesh pockets), clamshell opening.. I'd buy this in a heartbeat.

Hope that was more constructive than criticism. I'm a bag nerd like anyone else filing out this survey so feel free to ask if you want any elaboration.

If there were a way that I could fine-tune my review between 4 and 5 stars, I would, because I would say that for 95% of what I want, Minaal has made an excellent product pairing. As a parent and someone who hates juggling things around, I want to get down to traveling with one bag, and the smallest bag possible.

A few months ago I was preparing for a work trip and was deciding between the Minaal Carry 3.0 and the Peak Design Travel Backpack 45L for a single-bag, one week work setup. I ended up going with Peak because of the larger volume size and because of the roomier laptop sleeve (I have a 17" laptop that's also a little thick), and was mostly impressed with its features, minus the fact that I of course immediately lost two small pieces of hardware going through TSA. With the 45L I also discovered the upper limit to my personal tradeoff between the bulk of a single bag vs. conceding to using two bags.

Fast-forward to a few weeks ago, I had another one-week work trip and I saw this bundle for both the Carry 3.0 and the Daily 3.0, and thought I would go ahead and revisit this option for a direct comparison. I ended up using both bags for the trip, and I was surprised at how comfortable of an experience this was, given my irrational hatred of traveling with greater than one bag. What really won me over were a few major things. Both 3.0 bags are super versatile for different carrying scenarios (backpack or suitcase style). I ended up putting my clothes in the Carry, and my computer and office gear in the Daily, and swapped between having one as a backpack, one as a suitcase, and they were both extremely comfortable to carry in either configuration. The handles for the suitcase feel really soft but durable, and I love how you can really hide the backpack straps in suitcase mode for either bag instead of dangling them around. I found pocket and sleeve selection to easily meet my organizational needs. With the two bags in tandem, I never felt like I had to overpack one versus the other, and I could clearly categorize one type of thing to put in one bag vs. the other.

I unfortunately did not have the optional shoulder strap or the waist pads so I couldn't test out how those add-ons would have aided comfort (I will definitely find this out in a few months though), but honestly, I did not find any obvious deficiencies in comfort without them. At the end of the day, these were just great to use, and the combined value of the two used together is more than the sum of its parts.

What stops me from giving this review 5 stars are a few things, many of which I'm sure the Minaal community can all agree on:

- I really wish the laptop sleeve were JUST a bit larger on both. My personal is a 13" that will easily fit in those sleeves, but my work computer is a 17" with enough thickness that I can't use the sleeves and just kind of put my computer in that zipper section without. That's going to always be a consideration when go on work trips, but for personal trips, it'll hands down be the Minaal.

- That bottle sleeve on the Carry just feels on the edge of being secure. I use the elastic loop to tie in my bottle, but I still don't feel 100% secure with it.

- It is definitely a dust magnet (I have the Aoraki Black), but I hear it's better than the 2.0.

- I really wish that the shoulder straps and/or waist pads weren't separate add on purchases, and that I at least had the option of one, especially if I'm buying a set like this. I ended up buying them separately in anticipation of more travel this year, but paying an extra $70-90 for this feels a little tacky.

Overall, the Minaal Bag Bundle is a meticulously crafted minimalist product that really aligns with my travel needs, and even as a one-bag minimalist, with this specific set, I am more than happy to go up to two bags given the high level of comfort I had with that configuration on my last trip. I would say that if Minaal could accommodate just SLIGHTLY larger sized laptops, I would easily overlook all of the other flaws as personal nits and push this to a 5 star rating. That's really the only blocker between me making the Minaal Bag Bundle a no-brainer decision on work trips, vs. continuing to use the Peak Travel Backpack 45 L. I *am* planning a family trip at the end of summer I'm super stoked about because I'll use the Minaal for myself and pass along the Peak to my son, so regardless, I'll get to see both of those products in action for my personal use in the future!