Places that check bags in NYC and elsewhere

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In New York City, for example, you can stash your bags for $2 an hour per bag at Chelsea Bicycles, the Puerh Brooklyn teashop, or an Al Horno Lean Mexican Kitchen (which is convenient if you’re also in the mood for a burrito), among hundreds of other untraditional storage locations.

Websites and apps also help.  Travelers go online and book a date (it can be the same day) and location (maps show you your options), then drop off their bags. Afterward, some sites allow users to rate the storage location to help fellow travelers pick and choose. (While many places require advance booking, you can usually cancel free of charge.) Each storage network has its own rules, but they all typically provide luggage security seals as well as some version of insurance against damage, theft and loss.

LuggageHero, which offers online booking with a credit card — thus, eliminating the need for users to have local currency on hand — is one of the most recent players to expand its services. 250 locations in NYC.  Also in Copenhagen and London in 2017 (more than 100 locations).

In New York, the fee is $2 an hour per bag for the first 24 hours, which includes up to $2,000 insurance coverage for each bag. (You don’t pay more than $12 per bag for the first 24 hours.)

Knock Knock City, another site, is planning to expand to San Francisco this year after being introduced in dozens of locations in New York, where it charges $2 an hour per bag. New York City has turned out to be a popular destination for these services. Yet another network, Vertoe, offers luggage storage by the day ($5.95 per item for credit card payments online; $7.95 for cash), the week ($35 per item for credit cards online; $50 for cash), even by the month ($100 per item for credit cards online; $150 for cash).

In Britain, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and other international destinations, CityStasher connects travelers with local businesses like Mail Boxes Etc and food stores, as well as hotels. And Nannybag, one of the larger luggage storage networks, has locations throughout France and in major cities like London, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Berlin.

Reviews are on Yelp and Google (just search the company name and “review”).