It might be October, but it’s not too early to start thinking about holiday travel. Just like booking flights and getting train tickets ahead can save you money, so too can assessing your travel gear and scoring what you need while it’s on sale—like, say, now, on Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days.
This is not all the travel gear that’s on sale for fall Prime Day. It’s just the really good stuff, a round-up born of years of experience and thousands of miles. Wirecutter’s travel team has tested, compared, and personally traveled with hundreds of items to determine the most useful products and, from among them, the most well made. We go slow and steady: It took us years to recommend Away luggage because the best test of endurance is good ol’ fashioned time.
On top of that, our deals team has double-checked the prices to make sure that all the discounts you see here are truly the best (and you can learn more about our process for picking deals).
Through years of traveling — including sailing the world, riding a train across the United States, and living abroad — I’ve learned that you don’t need that much stuff to travel well. You just need a few durable, useful, thoughtfully designed products that make sleeping in seats, living out of suitcases, and navigating new cities a little easier. (Honestly, sometimes a lot easier: I’m looking at you, packing cubes.) Better still if you can get it on-sale.
That’s why I’ve rounded up the best fall Prime Day deals on the travel team’s favorite gear—stuff we’ve already rigorously tested, and stuff we travel with ourselves.
