Crafted from premium super-soft memory foam that’s exclusive to Duvalay, our handy travel pillow protects and cradles your head and neck – helping you to sleep comfortably on the move. There are various types of travel pillows available, from traditional U-shaped pillows to more innovative designs, such as inflatable travel pillows or memory foam pillows. If it does get dirty during travel, the exterior sleeve is removable and washable to ensure your neck pillow stays clean ahead of your next trip. And while inflatability is cool in concept, in practice it feels like trying to sleep on a fuzzy balloon. The fabric is snooze-inducingly soft, and we appreciated the addition of a hook on the rear which you can use to attach the pillow to your backpack.

If you’ve ever sat on a long journey and woken yourself up with a lolling head and a sore neck then you might want to invest in a travel pillow. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. We gauged how easy the pillows were to transport by rolling them up, smooshing them down and packing each into its carrying case (if included). Finally, we factored in the cost and looks of each pillow to determine their overall value and to choose the best pillow for most travelers.If a travel pillow has a removable cover, we also wash it according to the manufacturer's instructions and put it back on the pillow to check for shrinkage. As a mom, I use this sneaky packing trick for storing extra diapers, which, as any traveling parent knows, take up a ridiculous amount of space in a suitcase. A longer travel pillow can be placed across the front of your body and used to rest your head against. I rotated them on flights to Venice and Edinburgh and on my hour-long train commutes to and from work.

The products or services listed have been selected independently by journalists after hands-on testing or sourcing expert opinions. A user on TikTok has shown us an amazing travel hack that will help you save space (and money) when you’re flying. We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved. We also noted how the pillows’ covers felt against our skin and then slipped those same covers off and put them through a machine wash cycle.If you want a versatile travel pillow, this is simply too stiff, too small and too slippery to be of use. This pillow is one of the largest we’ve tested, but we can confirm it’s still perfectly suitable for plane journeys, thanks to its amazing squishiness.