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3 guides tagged Travel
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The Airport Survival Kit: What Frequent Flyers Actually Carry (2026)
The airport is not an ordeal, it is a gear problem, and gear problems have solutions. For about $150 you can sleep on planes, keep your ears sane, and land with a charged laptop, and the kit pays for itself on every flight you ever take again. Here are the nine items frequent flyers actually carry, built around the sleep triad: neck, eyes, ears, plus power.
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The Best Travel Tech Accessories (2026)
Ninety percent of travel tech misery comes from five failures: dead devices, wrong plugs, lost bags, tangled cables, and seatback screens your headphones cannot hear. Each has a small, cheap, permanent fix. We ranked the six accessories that solve all five, from a $13 pair of spare cables to the 65W listed GaN brick that retires your laptop charger.
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The Best Packing Cubes & Compression Cubes (2026)
No purchase under $50 improves more future trips than a good set of packing cubes, and no zipper earns its keep like a compression zipper. We ranked the four sets worth owning, from the $36 Osprey standard set to the Eagle Creek compression benchmark, and we explain the one-bag math that decides which kind you actually need.
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