16 L Hiking Backpack - NH Escape 500 Black

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Very good school backpack, durable, many pockets

The weight of the backpack does not feel heavy with clothes, slippers, laptop and such! Love it!

I am very satisfied with this product the quality, storage capacity and price are excellent.

Excellent compact backpack with wide range of utilities

Perfect size for personal item when flying. Attaches to my carry on suitcase for easy transport. Good size for day use.

In late 2023, I purchased the NH500 16l backpack and found it to be an exceptionally good everyday use pack because of the multitude of pockets and the overall 16/17 l capacity. This also makes it a great personal carry bag for the budget airlines. I was so impressed that som

e weeks later, I bought the larger 23l version, which is equally as good but a bit hit & miss for personal carry due to the larger size depending upon the fastideoness of the check-in crew. In Jan 2025, I decided to buy another 16l also in grey but was very surprised to see that 3 pockets have disappeared when compared to my original. Another reviewer (Chloe) mentioned this but seemed to think that it only applied to the yellow version. Well, my grey one also has these 3 handy little pockets missing and although not a deal btraker I'm confused as to why Decathlon would have removed them, particularly the zipper pocket within the 1st folding flap which also had the key holder within it (as it made key storage much safer) and the little zipper adjacent to the bottle holder. I'm presuming that this is a redesign across the 16l range, presumably to shave off a bit of cost.

Great bag for gym and work

We bought this as a carry on bag for my son when going on holiday. It was perfect for the plane. He now uses it for school and the different compartments are great to separate his books, snacks and water.

Such a lovely little pack, delighted with the look and the colour (chose the yellow one), as well as the nice padded shoulder straps and back which is what I was mostly looking for. The 16L is pretty perfect for what I want it for in a convenient day-to-day city bag, and has a

great variety of pockets for organisation, so I was quite chuffed. However, be aware that the yellow version is missing 3 pockets that the other colours have; the zipper pocket behind the key holder inside the middle-front pocket, the secret zipper pocket within the left bottle pocket, and the power bank pocket inside the main pocket, as well as the cable hole for the power bank (said pocket so many times, so sorry). I was surprised when mine didn't have these, and wondered if it was maybe a redesign that hadn't been updated on the website yet, but when looking closer at the online pictures, I realise that these pockets are in fact lacking on the yellow version, but not any of the other colours? I find this so strange, I assumed they were all the exact same bag, but seems like the yellow one specifically has had some pockets removed for some reason. I can live without them, but just very confused haha. Punishment for people who love yellow! Anyway, still a nice bag, just thought it might be worth letting others know. (there was also a bit of fabric fraying on one of the shoulder straps, but doesn't seem to hurt the strength of the strap. Still a decent bag for the low price)