Bric's Bellagio 21" Carry On Spinner

I have been crazy exhausted from work the past couple of months, and there would be weeks where wouldn't be able to take a day-off. add the fact that my family and I will be leaving for Korea the following week, there really isn't time, what with preparing for the things I need to bring to Seoul, and juggling deadlines and endorsements. What hurts further, I had already purchased USD$1,000.00 for my shopping money in Korea - it got stolen, along with my beautiful Etro wallet!


I still try to find joy in the small things, and over the Holy Week rest period, I enjoyed a little downtime with my newly purchased Bric's Bellagio 21" Spinner. This is the mini-version of the Bric's Bellagio luggage Kim bought me for Christmas.

Its in Tobacco Blue, and and it also evokes the same old-world charm the check-in luggage exudes of. The one I purchased is version 2.0.

I am so excited to stroll in Incheon International Airport with this bag!

The friendly people at Bric's SM Aura, who must know me so well by now, informed me of a sale ongoing, so I was only able to purchase this bag for PhP 24,000.00!

Do pay them a visit, there's a new line of Bric's luggage, the Capri hard case, which looks very pretty, too, without the hefty pricetag of the Bellagio line.

Bric's SM Aura
1st level, SM Aura Premier, McKinley Parkway,
Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, 1634
02.8033998

Bric's X-Bag Crossbody

One of my regrets this year was that I was unable to purchase a Bric's bag from NAIA Terminal 3 when we had a flight to Hong Kong July of this year. Mom took the opportunity to buy a bag while it was at 30% off, and I didn't.

I was quite delighted when the Bric's at the airport sent my mom a text message informing her that some bags had gone on sale again.

The bag I really wanted at the time was the X-Bag Crossbody, which I was hoping to get in a somewhat unisex color of either black, blue, or brown. When I called the sales person at the store, black was available.

borrowed from lyst.com

Just today, accompanied by my sister, we went to the airport in order to purchase the crossbody bag I had the store set aside for me. Grace, the store supervisor I was coordinating with, was on her break, so we had a quick lunch at the airport to kill time.

Looking around the people rushing to and fro to get to their destination, I was observing what type of luggage and bags they carried around with them. The bag you bring with you when you're flying out has to have enough space, and must be convenient to run around in, toss from side to side - and this was the reason why I wanted to get a Bric's X-Bag Crossbody. It is made of nylon so it can withstand rain, water, moisture, sweat. It has bovine leather accents which are hardy and tough and can last for years. Plus, it will perfectly match my check-in luggage.

After lunch, we went back to the shop and I was able to finally purchase the bag at a discounted price of PhP 2,920.00, from its original price of a little over PhP 5,000.00. The Bric's store in the airport is a different distributor from the one located in SM Aura and Shangri-la, and I find that their prices here are, indeed, better than outside. Haven't figured out, though, as to where I was going to attribute the price difference.

I inquired on the availability of the Bellagio Business Case hand-carry trolley that I wanted to purchase to match my Bellagio Tobacco check-in luggage. They said it was supposed to be available before December ends, and the price is way lower compared to the store in SM Aura. Naturally, I asked them to set aside the luggage for me already, and I will hie off to them as soon as they message me.

I'm sharing pictures of the bags on display and the bag I purchased.

Took a snapshot of this crossbody bag as it was on sale at PhP 3,650.00. I didn't purchase it though as the straps are thinner, thus making it hard for the bag to be considered unisex. My mom might be interested in it, though.

This is the bag I purchased. After my purchase, they only have 4 bags left. This would make a really nice gift this Christmas season. Do consider it.

And here's a snapshot of the bag as soon as I brought it home.

I really like Bric's over the other travel bag brands. It isn't as widely known locally, so using their luggage and travel bags gives me a unique sense of style. Observing the people in the airport, their go-to brands are either Samsonite, Delsey, Rimowa, and Tumi. With a Bric's, I feel comfortable that I wouldn't run into someone with the same bag. Quality is also not compromised with this brand. I have had a Bric's trolley that has been with me for years, and it still looks as beautiful as when I first used it.

Bric's X-Bag Capri 25" Spinner

I'm pretty excited for tomorrow!

I was looking around online and saw a Bric's X-Bag being sold for such a good price. According to the seller it had been used once. The color is pretty unique, though, from the available designs in the shop. The tuscan leather used in the current X-Bag lines is brown, the color of the leather used in this particular model is somewhat beige.

I did research on it, and I was able to find an X-Bag model that looked similar to it:

pictures borrowed from Polyvore

This is the X-Bag Capri series. Other models in its line up are the following:

Quite an interesting color-combination, if you ask me. 

We're supposed to go to New Manila tomorrow to inspect it, and hopefully purchase it. Will give you more details soon as I get home tomorrow. 

Bric's Bellagio Ultra-Light Spinner

After our Hong Kong trip, we figured it was time to update our luggage. You might think that luggage is not important, that you can basically get one of those run of the mill suitcases in the department store, and nobody would care. Well, you're wrong.

Your choice in luggage says a lot about you. It was a lesson we learned in a rather odd way.

During our Hong Kong trip, we brought an XL Samsonite soft-case luggage, an XL Echolac polycarbonate luggage, a Bric's carry-on, and a locally manufactured carry on. While going around Hong Kong, we brought along the carry-on with no name. The locals in the MTR were looking at us from head to toe after they realized that our carry-on was insignificant. These locals, by the way, were bringing around Rimowa carry-ons in the MTR! They weren't even going to the airport, they were going to work! I wanted to tell them, "Don't look at us like that, you guys are commuters! We don't even ride the MRT in the Philippines." Alas, it remained in my thought balloon.

Mommy and I vowed this incident was never ever going to happen again, and so our quest for the perfect luggage started.

Naturally, our first option was Rimowa. After all, the commuting snobs of Hong Kong all seemed to approve of the brand. I noticed also that in the international airport in Manila, there were a lot of Filipinos pushing around their Rimowa luggage.

After further research, and several visits to the Rimowa store in Greenbelt, apparently, there are fake Rimowas. Can you imagine spending PhP 60,000.00 on luggage, and people thinking that you're Rimowa probably cost only PhP 12,000.00. A word of caution, best to buy only from the store.

In hindsight, I realized that some of the Filipinos in the airport lugging Rimowa might have been using fake ones.

We almost resorted to, sigh, buying either a polycarbonate Delsey or Samsonite, much to Bianca's delight because Delsey had a pink series.

Good thing I stumbled into Bric's store in SM Aura - during a weekend sale to boot.

Now, we're no strangers to Bric's. In fact, one of our purchases from Duty Free in Manila was a Bric's tote for Mommy. Throw in Jessica Alba and Amal Clooney being spotted rolling Bric's luggage out from the airport, and we were sold.

Mommy was the first to  purchase the luggage. She bought an XL Bric's Bellagio in olive.

borrowed from bricstore.com

I didn't immediately buy one because I was having difficulty choosing between getting a polycarbonate Bellagio or an XL Bric's Life Camo. The Life series is a combination of leather coated in PVC, so it gives a soft case feel to the luggage, but with the water resistance of a polycarbonate shell. 

borrowed from lyst.com

Kim on the other hand offered to buy the luggage for me as a birthday/Christmas/anniversary gift.

This evening, we went to the Bric's store in SM Aura so Kim can see the options. He preferred the Bellagio because of the polycarbonate shell, and even the staff at Bric's recommended that I get that model instead. 

Since Mommy and I cannot travel with the same colored bag, I ended up getting the XL Bric's Bellagio in navy.

borrowed from neimanmarcus.com

Blue Bellagio it is!

Our next trip is to Seoul-Pohang-Busan in March 2017. I'm excited!