Customer Reviews for Peak Design - Roller Pro Carry-On Black - Black
Customer Rating
5
Nearly perfect
on July 21, 2025
Posted by: Mando
from Boston, MA
I've been excited about this roller bag for a while, as it addresses some of the issues I've encountered with roller bags in the past - the handle taking up space inside, hard sides limiting capacity, and wheels being lackluster, among others. To be clear, I'm not a roller bag person but rather a duffel pack kind of a guy. With that said, I also use a backpack so I'm always interested in moving a duffel off of my back. I'm a huge fan of Peak Design products so when they were releasing this I was excited to try it. I took this on a 7 day multi-city European trip with 3 airports, 3 hotels, trains, and car trips. It definitely addresses all of my concerns and surpassed by (no benefit of the doubt) expectations of a roller bag. Inside is well designed and functional for traveling and living out of a suitcase, especially if you use packing cubes. The construction and durability is top notch, with one critical flaw. When the bag is full, the zipper takes on a lot of stress at the point where it curves towards the bottom. For the casual traveler with a single destination, I think this will be a non-issue but for the road warrior optimizing capacity I'd be concerned that zipper will fail at some point. Yes, it has a great warranty but the concern would be a failure on a journey. If the zipper was a larger gauge this would be less of a concern. I hope that I'm proven wrong. Regardless, I think this is an amazing bag that I'll actually use.
Got it in May, have used it on 2 trips, but still not on an airplane.
Materials are excellent and the features are spot on. The feature I love the most is the drawbridge opening - super convenient using it in a hotel room. I packed a medium and a small packing cube, a regular wash pouch and a regular hairdryer. Plus all my chargers and my MacBook.
There are several points to note. First of all, it's so easy to handle and move around maybe because of handle and tyres. This really makes you feel comfortable traveling with this roller. Secondary, I like how the lid is designed as I don't need to turn around the roller to open. You can adjust how widely the lid can be opened, so depending on how you want to use you can easily adjust the range to open the lid. Easily accessible small pokets both infornt and inside are also very useful.
I bought this from the kickstarter campaign and immediately took it on a long trip through Europe. I'm about 3 weeks into the trip so far and the bag is holding up great. It is pretty heavily loaded when we're on the move full of laptops and camera equipment etc, but still manages to be useful and so far hasn't had any failures.
The main flap zippers can be a little tough to zip sometimes, but the wheels are very good and overall it's a great bag.
This rolls effortlessly; it’s the smoothest roller I’ve handled. I’m not sure the laptop sleeve is necessary; most people carry these in a separate bag.
This is probably the perfect carry-on suitcase. Simultaneously light and smooth-feeling and heavily featured. I think one thing people miss about this one: the storage options and pockets start to eliminate the need for other carrying cases (e.g., tech pouches, laptop sleeve) in a way that barebones carry-ons (e.g., Away) don't.
There are some hiccups. The strings for the drawbridge opening frequently get caught in the zippers and it's difficult to adjust them on the fly. There's also an impulse, given the perfectly fitted camera cube that fills almost the entire suitcase, to think you could pack a carry-on's worth of stuff PLUS all your camera gear. It's not magical, so you can't.
One thing I'd like to see from Peak Design in the future is fitted camera cubes that take up a smaller portion of the suitcase's space (e.g., 50%) so that you could maximize camera storage in the allotted area without trading nearly all of your storage for clothes, etc.
As a photographer that travels the Roller Pro combined with the XL camera cube is the best way to carry your gear. No more sore back from carrying all my gear. Rollers are great on loads of surfaces.
It looks awesome too and have had loads of compliments about it already.