Black nylon gym holdall
A soft black duffel carried by its handles, with a long strap and a small badge.
Haul Tray / Weekend rail
Weekend rail: holdalls, gym bags and wheeled cases for the tray
Ten travel bags read from the catalogue on 20 October 2026, from soft nylon gym holdalls to upright hard-shell cases. These are the biggest items in this catalogue and the ones that most often set the size of a parcel.
Soft holdalls and hard cases
Travel bags split cleanly into two groups. Soft holdalls, like the black nylon gym bag and the grey-green smooth one on this rail, have no frame and sag flat when empty. Hard cases, like the printed carry-on and the red wheeled one, keep their full size whether they are packed or not.
That single difference decides how a weekend bag behaves in a haul. A soft holdall can be folded and travel inside the box with other things packed round it. A hard case is the box, in effect, and the warehouse has to wrap or box it as it is. Plan a parcel round a hard case first and everything else second.
Holdalls and weekend bags
Two cards are large seller grids of sports duffels, one of sixteen photos and one of twenty-five. They show colour ranges, not one bag, so open the product page to find the photo of the exact bag and colour you want. One other card, the check holdalls, has its colour names written in Chinese on the photo.
Hard-shell carry-on case with a printed panel
An upright wheeled case with a printed front, black corners and a telescopic handle.
Sports holdalls in a sixteen-up grid
A seller collage of gym bags and duffels in blue, red, pink, grey and black.
Red patterned wheeled case
A red printed shell with black trim and a telescopic handle, photographed by a window.
Dark grey smooth holdall with a luggage tag
A plain dark grey holdall with two handles, a shoulder strap and a swing tag.
Check holdalls labelled by colour
One holdall shape in more than ten colours, each named in Chinese on the photo.
Black printed holdall with tan handles
A coated print body, tan leather-look handles and a hanging tag.
Grey-green smooth holdall
A muted grey-green body, a tag on a strap and a matching shoulder strap.
Sports duffels in a large colour grid
Twenty-five small duffels in sporty colours; the photo is a seller catalogue page rather than one bag.
Green and blue printed holdalls
Two holdalls in the same chevron-style print, one green and one blue.
Judging a holdall's real outline from the seller's pictures
Holdalls are hard to judge from the front because the bag is usually stuffed with paper to look full and taut. The two smooth holdalls on this rail are photographed that way, standing on a table at a slight angle. What you want to know is how the bag looks without the stuffing, and whether the base has a stiff panel or folds flat.
Look for a photo of the ends of the bag. A holdall with rounded, stiffened ends keeps a barrel shape; one with soft ends slumps. Look at the shoulder strap, too. On a heavy bag the strap carries everything, and a thin strap with a plastic clip is the weak point. A wide strap with metal clips and a shoulder pad is the sign of a bag meant to be carried full.
Seller grids show none of this. If a sports duffel from a grid is the bag you want, ask the shop for a photo of that one colour, ideally empty, before you order.
Wheeled cases and hard shells in an agent order
A hard-shell case is the most demanding thing you can put in a haul. Its size is fixed, its wheels and handle stick out, and a corner knock in transit can crack the shell. Before ordering one through an agent, check three things on the listing: the case's outer measurements, including wheels; whether the telescopic handle fully retracts; and what the shop packs it in. Some cases arrive in a fitted carton, some in a dust bag and a plastic sleeve.
A case also tends to be ordered on its own. People who buy a wheeled case through an agent often pack the rest of their haul inside it, which turns the case into the shipping box. Whether a warehouse will do that is a question for the agent; it saves a second box, but it means the case travels with only a protective wrap on the outside. Weigh that against the risk to the shell.
Big bags and the side-length rule on file
AllChinaBuy's help centre, as it read in August 2026, said that when any single side of an item was 70 cm or longer it had to be packed individually, both to keep packaging sensible and to keep the volume weight down. A full-size holdall or a large wheeled case can reach that length easily.
In practice that meant a big bag could not always share a box with the rest of a haul. If you were planning one parcel and a weekend bag was in it, the side-length rule was the first thing to check, before working out what else would fit inside.
Other agents set their own limits, and many publish different figures for different shipping lines. The parcel page has the rest of AllChinaBuy's archived packing rules.