Great Gifts Luggage Tags and Luggage Straps - Economical - Personal and Fun

Buying a gift for someone has everything? Someone who travels frequently? Think about a luggage tag. Yes, I said luggage tag. Gone are the tags of just basic luggage tags. Luggage tags are now fun with bright colors, metallics and more - there is a luggage tag for every possible personality - including James Bond. Luggage tags are a thoughtful gift that doesn't break your bank account. And yet, it is a functional gift that can be connected to the recipient's personality. Besides being a frugal gift, it is a gift that will be around for years serving as a reminder of your good wishes.

Journey with me as we explore a plethora of options. Stay with me still the end and I will share with you my personal favorite - what I call the James Bond -like luggage tag. A tag so stylist that even Bond's Aston Martin would love to carry this case with this luggage tag.

Two tips to help you shop: 1.) Match the luggage tag to the gift recipient's personality and 2.) shop early in order to avoid expedited shipping and buying in a panic.

We will match several different personalities to a luggage tag gift including:

• Tropical
• Personalized Business
• Cruise Ship Traveler
• Young and Vibrant and Glowing with Metallics
• Artistic and Whimsical and Nautical Too!
• James Bond - the Ultimate in Sophistication and Elegance

As the Spanish proverb says, ''He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.'' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

Anonymous

Leather luggage tags are durable and elegant and now available in a wide variety of colors. Go beyond the classic brown or black, check out the wide array of colors. Remember, when you are retrieving your bag at the airport, how all the bags look the same? The luggage tag, IF distinctive gives you an added edge to quickly identify your baggage.

The luggage carousel is everyone's nightmare. If you give a gift that helps ease the pain of the retrieval of their valuable belongings, you will be long remembered for that great gift.

Tip: If you are able to grab one of the business cards of your gift recipient, include that right in your gift! Remember, it is the thought that counts and that surprises will surely make them feel special.

Look at the durability of leather. And then look again at the great color selection! Remember when retrieving your luggage you need a bright color unique to the hundreds of pieces of luggage on the turntable. A bright, distinctive luggage tag is functional for identification in more than one way - it provides your name and address a method to quickly identify your beloved bag of luggage. Set yourself apart and make your travel easier by using the right tools - a great luggage tag is a must!

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Have a friend who is still talking up their cruise trip? Have a friend who has scheduled a cruise trip? Check out this great luggage tag - a functional gift that brings back or creates memories of a vacation on the water.

Double Duty for the Luggage Tag - Dinner Place Setter

Planning a dinner or event? If the theme is travel or tropical, consider using the cruise ship luggage tag as a place setter.

The sleek silver luggage tag in the shape of the ship is perfect for weddings and anniversary celebrations on cruise ships, sailboats, and yachts.

Include each individual's name on the front - let them do the rest for their real travel needs and make this your place setter as part of your table decorations for your event.

Each tag is silver-plated and finished with an adjustable black leather buckled strap. Luggage tags measure 3.5"L by 2.25"H (not including strap) and come individually packaged in a small green box."

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

John Steinbeck

Nothing says quality as Neiman Marcus. Identify and safeguard your luggage with these two identification tags in brass, personalized with your name (up to 22 characters/spaces) and two-line address (up to 22 characters/spaces per line) in the style shown. Black plastic straps included. Tags are 3" x 1.5".Two Personalized Luggage Tags NMF11_H46D9 Check out the metal or brass tags at the right.

Remember, Luggage Tags Are Needed on Lap Tops and Cameras Too!

Don't forget about the versatility of the luggage tag. Cameras, lap top computers and more need identification too when traveling. Luggage tags are not just for suitcases anymore!

Personalized Neiman Marcus Plastic with White Lettering Three Small Luggage Tags 

Want a luggage tag that is easier to read?  Check out the plastic luggage tags from Neiman Marcus in bold and bright colors and white lettering.  What a great gift for a new home owner or a female with a new name.  Celebrate the new name, celebrate the new address with a great gift - a personalized luggage tag.

"Identify and safeguard your luggage and other belongings with these identification tags in plastic, personalized in the style shown. Black plastic straps are included. Small tags feature your name (up to 22 characters/spaces) and two-line address (up to 22 characters/spaces per line) and measure 1.5" x 3". Specify Blue, Black, Sand, Red, or Lavender tag color. Tags are made in the USA."

Need a little more personality than the basic personalized luggage tag? Check out the design inspirations of Boatman Geller. A young designer in Manhattan who moved to Seattle, the simple elegance of Boatman Geller collections is loved by over 2,000 accounts across the nation.

Boatman Geller also offers stationery and many other gifts with her inventive designs inspired by Nantucket many with a nautical feel such as the sample shown at the right.

About the designer: "After a successful career in design at Elizabeth Arden in New York City, Jane made the move to Seattle to unite with the love of her life, and now husband and business partner, Greg Geller. In 2002, while living in Seattle, Boatman Geller was born out of Jane's own creative drive and her desire to fulfill a niche in the marketplace. Soon after, the pair made their move to Jane's hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana, where Greg decided to join in his wife's business that was creating quite the buzz."

Can you imagine trying to buy a gift for James Bond?  Well, we have it!  Absolute perfection.  Yes, there is a luggage tag literally for every personality - even a world-renowned favorite James Bond.

This luggage tag offered by the M Collection out of Australia is straight from the annuals of James Bond. Look at the craftsmanship and the high quality materials. Slight and simplistic, effective and functional and yet discreet.

The Ferraghini product line is provided with individual cards of authenticity. I would expect nothing less at that price tag.

The James Bond of all luggage tags, the tag by Ferraghini, is brought to us by one of Europe’s leading suppliers of exclusive promotional products. They have twelve country offices across Europe, the UK, Africa and Australia. Their product line includes everything for promotional products from the give a way pen to this luxurious luggage tag. Their range of gifts extends across all price points to best serve you.

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Luggage tag didn't do the trick for you - also, consider a personalized luggage strap - shown to the right.

Still not hitting the right note, check out the many other ideas provided below:

Personalized items take longer to purchase and definitely take longer to think of but the time and effort are well worth it for a gift. Better yet, if the gift is a functional gift such as the luggage strap. Even if the packing is done without excess, the luggage strap is helpful in locating your luggage quickly on the mounds of other pieces of baggage.

This is a great stocking stuffer, a fantastic gift for the frequent traveler or the new retiree who will be traveling. Best yet, this gift is relatively inexpensive but will travel and be remembered possibly for years.

From luggage tags to luggage straps, there is simply something for everyone and the price is right.

Take in consideration of the personality of your family member or friend or even work associate, these gifts are safe and yet memorable and there is something for every budget imaginable.

Happy Gift Giving and have a good journey as the French would say it - Bon Voyage!