Review: Making life easier with HandiWorld
People often ask me what it’s like to have four children and I tell them, completely honestly, it is hard work. Obviously physically, mentally, and financially it takes its toll, but on a practical level, everything feels like hard work. We can’t simply book a hotel room for the 6 of us, or even get just one apartment for a family holiday; we can’t save money on a discounted family ticket on days out, or even pop into a restaurant in the hope of being seated. And whilst we have worked around those issues, there is still one issue which remains – car trips!
As a family we love to travel in and around the UK, either short breaks or camping trips, and yet getting two adults, four children, and all that luggage into a car is practically impossible. Even with a 7 seater car, once Lewis is in, that leaves just half the boot space and a couple of cases or a tent and the sleeping bags more than fills that space! Our only option seemed to be a roof box, yet with our car not coming with roof bars, and the added issue of where to store the roof box when it’s not in use, we had to look at alternative options.
That’s where I was introduced to HandiWorld. HandiWorld is focused on bringing innovative ideas to help individuals across a number of different sectors including the car, leisure and garden markets. With various products in their range we realised that their HandiRack with the HandiHoldall was the answer to all of our problems!
Believe it or not, the HandiRack is an inflatable roof rack, uniquely designed to fit with the majority of 2, 3, 4 and 5 door vehicles across the world. Priced at £65 the HandiRack is a more affordable alternative to your classic metal roof bars, especially as all the extras and accessories you need for fitting come as part of the price and if you get a new car, you can simply fit your HandiRack to the new vehicle!
You may be thinking there’s no way an inflatable roof rack can take the same load as metal roof bars, but that’s where you’re wrong! The HandiRack is capable of carrying up to 80kg of weight when inflated properly, making it ideal for carrying sports equipment such as kayaks and canoes or all the camping gear required for a family trip! Bonus!!
The HandiRack comes with a special HandiPump to inflate the bars, 2 x HandiRack twin tubes, 2 HandiStraps, a HandRack wet weather kit, a drawstring travel bag, and a detailed instruction booklet.
We couldn’t wait to get the HandiRack on the car to try it out and, with it stating it takes just 5 minutes to fix to the car, I was keen to see whether that was the case for us!
The straps are super easy to put in place, simply threading through the car and connecting with the D ring anchor point system. Once they are in place you simply inflate them and they are good to go! It literally took less than 5 minutes from start to finish which, on a rainy day, really isn’t bad at all!
Made with unbeatably strong fabrics such as 400 denier nylon and reinforced PVC, the HandiRack is a state of the art design you won’t find anywhere else. The HandiRack can carry up to 80kg of cargo and feels completely sturdy and secure. The next step was simply fitting the HandiHoldall!
The HandiHoldall is basically an easy to store foldable roof box with a whopping 330 litre capacity. Stored in a drawstring bag that can be stashed away out of sight, unlike a huge roof box, it’s such a practical, and innovative way of adding external car storage.
Suitable for use with either a metal roof rack, orthe HandiRack, the 330 litre HandiHoldall can carry a weight of up to 50kg making it a fantastic option for larger families like ourselves. The HandiHoldall comes with glass fibre poles to create a solid base, a lockable zipper for extra security, a storm flap, grab handles, and is made from heavy duty material with tapped seams.
Fitting it could not have been easier as it simply connects via a secure, and innovative, D-ring system and, when the bag is filled, there are extra security straps to go round to really keep it in place.
The amazing thing for us is that now Lewis isn’t moaning about being wedged into the boot, surrounded by bags, and the children can stretch our their legs without trampling all over more bags in the footwell. At £129.50 for the HandiHoldall, it really is worth every single penny for that!
To win the HandiRack and the HandiHoldall worth over £200 simply enter via the link below. One winner will be chosen at random and notified via email at close of giveaway on 30th June. Good luck!
** We were sent this item for the purpose of this review. All words and opinions are our own. **
Oh wow I love the fact it inflates! That is super convenient! We might look into this for our car too…
Its amazing Talya! And stores away in a small draw string bag when not in use! xx
OK now this sounds like a great twist on the roof rack! I love the fact it inflates and it is waterproof. We have the smallest boot in the world so this might just help us with extra space.
I love it Sarah! It folds up so small when not in use so you don’t have a huge roof box to find space for! xx
I am so glad I read this today. We have been searching for a roof rack for an upcoming trio to France and was worried about cost and storage. I had no idea there was a foldable one on the market. So handy
It’s amazing! Such a good idea and literally goes on in minutes! xx
Looks super handy for a family of 8 with six little ones and their stuff! Love it
Oh wow what a clever solution – especially as we use rental cars so couldn’t fit anything more permanent!
Yes! That’s the best thing, you don’t need to make any permanent changes to your car!
Well that’s a genius little invention isn’t it! I’ve never heard of them before, amazing!
It’s such a good idea, I recommend it! xx
Wow, that looks amazing. As a family of 5 I’ve often thought how nice it would be to have a roofrack or trailer…this might be just the solution.
It’s such a good idea, you can fit so much in there too! xx
Oh wow this is brilliant! I’ve no idea how we’re going to fit all our camping gear in the car and this is a lot cheaper than other options I’ve been looking at x
We got a 6 man tent in there, 6 sleeping bags, 6 pillows and a whole load of camping equipment in there! It’s amazing! xx
Oh my gosh, I’d never considered how you’d all fit a car to go on holiday! The HandiRack sounds great – we’re looking for something we could use for canoes or bikes but most metal bars don’t fit our cars so this would be a great alternative!
C x
We only have 4 children, but the Handy Holdall looks like it would also help us with our packing!
This would be ideal for family getaways x
a fantastic idea very useful for those trips away
Such a good product and literally goes on in minutes!
would love to win to fit all our holiday gear in it! x
This sounds like such a brilliant idea. Wish I’d thought of it!
would be great for extrage luggage space when we go away
Wow, this would be a lifesaver when we go on holiday – what a great product! No more complaining from my husband about ‘too much stuff’ would be amazing 🙂
No more inflated tempers just a very Handi solution!
I would like be to win as would be dead handy to use for the frequent trips I do to the coast with my paddle board
I would like to win as this would be so handy, as we as a family go camping several times a year and a few things could now go on the roof on our travels
This would be great for when we go away in the summer!
We have just decided to go camping and take our dog – so this will give us much needed extra space
This looks fantastic. Would be really useful on our market stall
I’d like to win because this is a really clever design and I do not currently have a roof rack.
I would love this as now we are a family of 4 and a dog we need the extra space in the car and we travel alot to visit family!
This would help us with packing for our family camping trips.
Really handy for camping trips, can take it off and not have to drive round with a roof box as it can be packed away once you have unloaded your gear.
I’d like to win so that I could share it with the whole family and make trips and holidays easier
To use it on our holidays
heading off camping in a few weeks, no way my small car will fit all the stuff we need
Like you we have a Grand Picasso C4 and when we go away our boot gets absolutely crammed leaving no space for bikes and scooters.
Winning this would mean we could put stuff on the roof leaving enough space for the bikes. Perfect!
for when we take the grandkids on holiday , can never fit everythink in the boots with all the stuff we take
We have a motability car so cannot fix standard roof bars in case of paint damage, these inflate so no fear of damage, and when we go on holiday there are 6 of us so little room for luggage so poor driver has to make 2 trips, with these it would only be 1
Our boot is tiny so this would certainly make life a lot easier when we go away!
Such a good idea. This would be ideal for family getaways.
This prize is such a space saver and also looks great.
Saw one of these on holiday last year, but didn’t follow up and find out what they were/how they work. Looks perfect for our gang!
We are short of boot space, so this sounds perfect for the times we need more room.
I would love this as both me and my boyfriend have tiny cars and with two kids in them there isn’t much space left!
This looks so useful and easy to use and can pack away so easily. It would be really useful when we go on holiday
we go camping and never have enough room for all our gear so would love to win
great for camping we can put everything but the children the roof
This would be really useful to carry all the luggage for my 5 kids and myself.
Well with a 7 seater car 2 adults and 4 kids, when we go away there’s never much room for luggage, this would be the perfect solution
Always short on space as my wife has to pack the kitchen sink when go have a staycation. Would afford us a bit of luxury to have some extra free space in the car itself to make journeys that much more enjoyable,
We go camping a lot so this would really help
Great prize would come in handy when we go on holiday
We are planning lots of camping trips this year and with 2 children and a dog we need all the extra room we can get, so this would be very useful for all our luggage.
About to have first camping trip so this would be life changing!
This would be just that extra bit of space we need for camping trips! So hard to fit everything in the car!
I’d love to win as it would be great for trips away when we travel by car
This would be useful for our upcoming family holiday to Wales.
We are just about to get our new car and we are going centerparks in August – I think we will need a roof rake with two boys!
We are a family of four with a three door, with a toddler and baby theres always lots,to pack so run out of room!! This would be great for our upcoming camping trip xx
we LOVE camping and with great giveaway we could take every thing including the kitchin sink
would be great for extra luggage space when we go away
This seems like such a great idea, really handy!
Wow what a fantastic idea. I have no roof bars either so this would be great for family trips
This would come in so useful for my camping trips this summer. I usually travel solo and can just about fit me and all my stuff in my car. This year a friend is coming to a festival with me and therefore I am going to have to do some serious ‘streamlining’ to fit her, and her stuff, in my car too … unless I win this of course, and then I won’t need to! By the way, I have the Handi multi-terrain trolley and it is brilliant – it runs smoothly over any terrain, including mud and rutted fields and (like the roof rack) can hold a lot.
We only have a small car so this would be perfect for family trips away!
This would be so handy for when we go away in August:)
Will be invaluable for travel – easy to store too – great idea
This is really clever and would be ideal for the holiday packing chaos!
this would be very handy for whnen we go camping !!
love this very clever design. this would help make our journeys more comfy, as we can store the things we dont need immediately on the roof, making more space for us xx
This would be perfect for family camping trips, more room in the car
As a family of 5 in a VW Golf this would be perfect. The kids are fed up having things on their laps ha ha
This would be amazing for family trips away
It would be perfect for picking up son and his belongings from university
I would like to win as we have a big family and two dogs – the car just gets too cramped for luggage too!
This would help SO MUCH with our beloved family camping trips… but we always end up with a really stuffed car and as we’re expecting another baby in autumn I’m not sure how we’re going to cope! This would be so helpful, especially as it packs down nice and small so we wouldn’t have the extra worry of trying to find somewhere to store a roof box. Just a brill design- thanks so much for counting us in
Looks good for a very old family car that would get damaged by a modern roof rack
Would be thrilled to win, as it would be perfect for our camping holidays, have to take so much and when we take the Grandchildren it means more room in the car for them and us, and the fact it can be placed away after use is another bonus
This would help so much on our holiday as my son now has a wheelchair so boot space is limited
What a great idea,handy,useful & easy to dismantle.This would make travelling so much easier!
We don’t have any room to store a big roof box, but our boot is tiny! This would be perfect for our holidays!
it would be handy for when we go fishing with the hubby
I’d love to win this as we have a tiny boot in our car and we are always struggling for space to put things, this looks fantastic.
It’s a great invention. I’ve seen them on other cars and thought they looked like a great idea. It was great to read your review because now I know it’s a great product to use and very practical too – thank you.
We go camping alot and there is always too much stuff everywhere, this would make it all a lot easier. Storage when not in use is also a plus
What a great invention. So useful!.
Having just brought a new car this would be perfect for weekend beaks away without having to compromise the passengers space
This would be amazing to get away without trying to cram everything into the spare seat in the car
We have 3 kids so this would be handy for holidays with them
hI, The last time we went away (last week) I had my mother in law and son and 2 cases in the back of the car. not ideal so this would be fantastic!
We have 2 kids and a large dog. I’ve been saying for ages we need to get a roof box or something. This looks like the perfect solution.
Looks so much more flexible than other carriers
I would love to win for my husband. He will be 55 this year and has just got his very first brand new car on finance. He is obsessed over it, constantly cleaning it and worried about scratching it so this inflatable rack would be perfect for his brand new ‘baby’.
What a great idea! Tend to have a lot of luggage, so this would come in very useful.
To give to my oldest son.
We do a lot of camping so this would be an ideal way to transport some of the gear. Great prize and competition!
my family consists of 3 females, a husband that likes shoes and a dog, need i say more?
With a dog, a daughter and a wife with nothing but a small call, you can imagine the difficulty i have when travelling away. This would be ideal.
Great for the holidays
This sound like a awesome idea, roof bar/boxes can be so expencive
This would be great for trips up to scotland with my friend and the kids xx
This would make my summer soo much easier!
id love this for our next holiday
This looks like it might avoid the scratches that come with some other rook racks.
Really good for smaller car.
I would love to win as a family of 6 we need as much storage and space as possible this would be great for going on family adventures and camping trips plus its friendlier on my car
how handy, so ideal to keep in the car for when needed, I could buy loads more on days out and not worry how I am getting it home
This would be perfect when we go camping as we never have enough room in one car and have to go in two
I like that it can be put up speedily.
This would be great for extra storage when going away
This would work for our Summer European driving trip.
this would be very handy for our summer holiday
we are driving to Wales this summer, im taking 5 of my kids with me would be nice to have more car space
We pop down to Cornwall a couple of times a year and it’s always a squash trying to fit everything in, this would be fab
We do not have a roof rack. Yet we love the opportunity to explore via days out, etc. Seems like a great practical way of ensuring useful items can be stored and taken away on day trips, etc :- Safely and conveniently.
We’re also a family of 6 and it can be such a struggle when going away with all the packing, we usually have caravan hols which means we literally have to pack everything, turning the car into a tetris game as we slot all the bags together around the kids! This would make it so much easier!
This looks like an excellent product that would be very handy for me
This would be amazing for our self-drive camping holiday to France later this year.
This would be amazing for our camping trips. The extra rooftop storage would come in extremely handy!
This would be amazing for our family adventures. As a family of 5 (including a teenager, tweenager & toddler) who love our staycations & camping adventures space is always a big issue. This would be perfect for us to enjoy our quality family time without being cramped & having to leave lots of stuff behind #1famiky1caralifetimeofadventure
Looks like a great product for our growing family.
For my son who goes camping a lot with 2 kids and his partner ( another baby on the way), they struggle with the luggage
This would be absolutely amazing for our family holidays. We never have enough room in the car.
Would be perfect for our camping holidays.
With 2 kids it’s very hard to fit the dog in the boot with all the prams, changing bags, coats and spare clothes so it would be lovely to put the extras above so our dog Ollie can come on adventures with us
This would be amazing to use when we go camping, or away for weekends!
What a fab idea I would love this thanks so much for the chance perfect for family outings
I’d love to win this for my dad
This looks like exactly what we need for our camping trip!
It would be very useful for our trips to France as a family of 5
I have four daughters you have no idea how cramped our car gets! This would be amazing as we always holiday around the UK!
with 2 kids & 2 dogs theres never enough room in the boot!!!
What a fantastic idea. Perfect for all the family things
This would come really handy for holidays, you can never have enough space, an ideal solution for that problem.
Look easy to fit for a spur of the moment outing / night or two away
To create more space in the car, when we go away
we often go visiting family and take our dogs and with overnight bags and sometimes bedding and presents at Christmas, there’s not much room in the car!
for the fun of it
my hubby broke our rack last year, so we could do with a new one
We never have enough room – this would be amazing for when we go travelling! x
I’d love to win we never have enough room in the car when heading away
We’ve always fancied getting a roof rack but not done because of our glass roof, this is perfect!
Would be perfect for us as we always stuff the car too full.
This would be amazing for our family camping trips when we usually struggle to take everything that we want to take.
This looks fab – it is well known that I always take far too much luggage!
It would be perfect.
such a clever idea idea for skiing trips and camping holidays
This looks so easy to use and convenient to store too, when not in use.
great idea and great giveaway
We’d love to win as our boot space is occupied by a rather large wheelchair! This would mean we have loads of room for when we go on holiday to pack everything else!
We’d love to win as our boot space is occupied by a rather large wheelchair! This would mean we have loads of room for when we go on holiday to pack everything else!
It would be so useful as I only have a little car and it folds up so it doesn’t take up much space. too.
We are hoping to go camping this summer and it would be great to have extra space for all of our stuff
so hard to get away need a large truck lol 3 kids one being under 1 need to much to go anywhere pefect fo managing to get everything packed
This would be so handy for our camping trips
We’re going to the Lake district next month so will be taking everything but the kitchen sink for our 2 little ones. Something like this would make our journey much more comfortable as we could pack everyhting onto the roof instead.
we have a big family and love camping so this would be fab for that
We love road trips but have quite a small car so this would be perfect for extra storage
this looks brilliant and so small for storage id love to win as it would be perfect for storing all our stuff for our camping trips
This would be really handy for our holiday in august
perfect idea! nice post! thanks for sharing
actually it is amezing and valuable product for any one
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