Moving Abroad: The Last Ride to Arlanda with Everything You Own

Every vehicle category has a combined luggage budget — a large checked case counts as two units, a cabin-sized bag as one — and the honest move is counting your actual pile against that budget rather than assuming your usual travel category still applies. Moving-abroad luggage is rarely comparable to a normal holiday's worth.

• Standard, Electric and Business: 4 passengers, 6-unit luggage budget, at most 2 large cases and 4 pieces in total (2 large bags + 2 cabin bags, or 4 cabin bags)
• SUV / XL: 6 passengers, 10-unit luggage budget, up to 4 large cases
• Minibus: 8 passengers, 18-unit luggage budget, up to 8 large cases

If you're counting five, six or more large cases plus cabin bags, the Minibus category's 18-unit budget is usually where the maths actually lands, even for a single traveller — it's built for exactly this kind of load, not just larger groups.

If your count genuinely exceeds even the Minibus's budget — a full household's worth of luggage rather than a heavy personal move — two cars booked for the same time and address is the honest answer, rather than trying to force everything into one trip and risking something being left behind or a car turned away for being over capacity.

Describe your real luggage count in the booking notes if you're at all unsure which category fits — dimensions, rough count, anything oversized — and we confirm before pickup rather than you finding out at the kerb on a day that's already a lot.

A move rarely fits neatly into the suitcase-and-cabin-bag categories the luggage budget is built around — a sealed cardboard box, a rolled rug, a musical instrument case all take up real space without matching either unit cleanly. When you're counting, err on the side of the larger unit for anything oversized or awkwardly shaped, and mention it specifically in the notes rather than folding it into a general headcount of bags.

If you've booked excess baggage with your airline, check-in for a move like this often takes longer than a normal departure — more bags to weigh, potentially a separate desk or queue for oversized or excess items. Build extra time into your pickup for that step specifically, on top of your usual security margin, so the airport side of the day doesn't compress into less time than it actually needs.