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Budget and prices

What the total comes to once everything is counted.

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Tan leather suitcase covered in faded airline and travel decals, photographed against white — Peeling airline stickers mark a case that spent decades being checked in and handled.Photo: Sandrine Z · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

Scuffed tan leather suitcase plastered with hotel and shipping-line labels, a price tag tied to the handle

Budget and prices

What a suitcase costs per trip, and what importing one adds

What a suitcase really costs per trip over the years you keep it, plus the £135 customs threshold and 20% import VAT on a case bought from outside the UK.

Updated 3/11/2026 · 9 min

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