Height is the wrong number. If you are 6’4″ and shopping for the best travel backpacks for tall people, the spec that decides whether a bag works is your torso length, measured from the base of your neck to the top of your hipbones. Most travel packs are built around a 16 to 18 inch … Read more
The best luggage for cruise travel is a durable, lightweight suitcase on 360-degree spinner wheels, sized to slide under a stateroom bed or stand upright in a shallow closet. For most sailings that means a 21 to 22 inch carry-on plus a separate personal item, and a 26 to 28 inch checked bag for anything … Read more
Picking out the best kids luggage for family vacations is less about finding the smallest cute case and more about matching three things at once: what your child can physically move, what your airline will accept in the cabin, and what survives a decade of being sat on. A bag that fails any one of … Read more
The Taygeer 35L is the best travel backpack for women overall, because it carries more than 30000 reviews of airline-approved sizing, room for a 15.6 inch laptop, and the wet pocket and shoe bag that stop a week’s worth of clothes from turning into a mess. Below, I break down 12 carry-on and personal-item packs … Read more
The best anti-theft travel backpack for city trips is the Pacsafe Metrosafe X, because it pairs lockable zippers and cut-proof steel mesh panels with a detachable anchor strap and a padded 15-inch laptop sleeve. It is the one bag in our test group that slowed a casual grab and gave us time to notice a … Read more
A laptop backpack that works for business trips has to clear three bars at once: it must pass the airline size check, keep a 13 to 17 inch laptop protected through a day of terminals and taxis, and still look respectable when you walk into a conference room. Most bags on the market manage one … Read more
Most travel backpacks fail on a trail in one of two ways. They have no hip belt, so a ten-kilometer day leaves your shoulders burning. Or they have a full hiking suspension with a frame and a wide waist strap, which makes them miserable to haul through an airport and too rigid to squeeze into … Read more
There is a specific kind of sleep problem that only shows up at 30,000 feet. Your head is comfortable for about forty minutes, then it tips forward onto your chest and your neck muscles contract hard enough to wake you up. You sit upright, reset, and repeat it three more times before the cabin lights … Read more
The short answer: the TESSAN European Travel Plug Adapter is the best travel adapter for most Europe trips, and the EPICKA Universal Travel Adapter is the one to buy if your itinerary includes the UK. Everything in this roundup works on mainland Europe’s Type C and Type E/F sockets, and every one of them is … Read more
Every trip starts the same way: two minutes of packing, then twenty minutes of untangling. A charger coil sewn into the lining of your backpack, a USB-C lead knotted around a power bank, earbuds lost somewhere behind a passport. Cable organizers exist to delete that twenty minutes, and the right one changes how a bag … Read more