I have been using a soft sided cool as a second piece of luggage I bring all of our specialty food all frozen usually around 40 lbs we are there for two weeks . Then we use it for taking adult beverages to the beach , then on return we use it for our dirty laundry and if I want to bring any liquor home . There are four couple that we have been going to SXM for over thirty years , we stay at villas we all enjoy cooking in a few nights each one has a specialty night works well we usually have 12 to 14 for dinner