Most gym bags fall apart at the airport, and most travel duffels smell like a locker room after one workout. The fix is a single bag built for both jobs, and the best duffel bags for gym and travel do something most competitors in that category never bother with: they separate wet kit, hold their … Read more
Salt spray gets into everything on a boat. It soaks into a cotton duffel in one afternoon, and it creeps into a locker and turns a week’s worth of dry kit into a mould problem by the time you get back to the mooring. The fix is simple in principle: buy a bag with welded … Read more
The best leather duffel bags for weekend trips are soft-sided bags in genuine leather, sized roughly 20 to 24 inches, that swallow two nights of clothes and still clear the cabin limit at the airport. Twelve bags made the cut for , and the deciding factors were empty weight, carry-on fit and whether the leather … Read more
The Etekcity Digital Luggage Scale is the best luggage scale for checked bags in . It weighs to 110 lb (50 kg) with a 1.6 oz readout accuracy, weighs just 4.7 ounces, and has been verified against known weights and airline counter scales for years. If you only buy one, this is the one. Most … Read more
The best universal travel adapter is the EPICKA TA-105+, and it is not a close call. It carries four plug types, one AC socket and five USB ports in a 5.1 ounce body, and it has been the name travelers mention first on r/onebag and in Rick Steves Europe groups for years. Here is the … Read more
Most neck pillows fail on a plane for one reason: they do not stop the forward nod. You doze off, your head drops, you wake up with a stiff neck and forty minutes of bad sleep. The best neck pillows for airplane sleeping in are the ones that fill the gap between your head and … Read more
Ask anyone who has dozed off on a nine-hour flight and they will tell you the same thing: the neck pain arrives before the landing. Your head drops forward, the muscles at the front of your neck stay contracted under load for hours, and you wake up with a stiff, achy reminder of the flight … Read more
Packing cubes are lightweight zippered pouches, usually nylon or polyester, that you fill with clothes before they go into a suitcase. They keep your luggage organized, hold dirty laundry and shoes away from clean clothes, and stop clothes from shifting around in transit. The best packing cubes go one step further: a second zipper around … Read more
A suit that arrives wrinkled ends a business trip before it starts. The best travel garment duffel bags for business trips solve that problem by hanging your formalwear flat inside a soft-sided bag that still passes through airport security as a single carry-on. Over the past two months our team put 12 convertible garment duffels … Read more
A duffel bag is the cheapest way to travel carry-on, and the cheapest bags are exactly where the differences get interesting. Under Armour, adidas, PUMA and Nike all sell well-reviewed sports duffels in this range, while canvas and leather weekender bags from NEWHEY, S-ZONE and FocusGear compete hard on looks. We went through the specs, … Read more