Travel Gear Guides to Make Family Trips Easier

Having the right travel gear can make your family adventures go so much better. But, it isn’t always easy to work out what is the right travel gear.

To help reduce that problem for you, we’ve created a number of travel gear guides to make it easier to pick the right travel gear.

This guide includes specific product reviews, category buying guides and fun gadgets. Each post is focussed on helping you answer the key question “Will this travel item help me and my family travel better“

We’ve organised this page into a number of different categories around your questions, and also included a simple A..Z list of all our travel gear guides at the very end along with a quick summary of how to approach buying new travel gear..

Where can I find Affordable Travel Gear?

You don’t always need to break the bank to have the best travel gear.

What Travel Gear Will Help Keep Me and My Family safe while I travel?

Here are our Travel Gear guides on products that are design to help keep your family safe and secure on your travels.

What Luggage is Best For Air Travel?

Cabin Bags

Will a Ride On Suitcase help me and My children With Travel?

Ride on suitcases have come a long ways over the years and they can be really helpful in keeping your child entertained while travelling, while also being a great place to store and access key items.

Here are a collection of travel guides focussed on ride on suitcases.

Can We take Stimming and Fidget Toys on a plane?

Key toys and gadgets can be incredibly helpful in providing comfort to your children and helping them regulate. However, it isn’t always clear what toys you can and cannot take on a plane. In these guides we look to provide that guidance so you can make clear choices and have what you , and your children, need on every flight.

What Travel Gear will make flying more comfortable for my family?

Flying is fantastic for travel, but lets be honest – it isn’t very comfortable and this can be doubly hard for a family as it can make people tired, cranky and lead to tantrums and meltdowns.

Here are some items that should make your flight a little bit more comfortable:

Turn an airline seat into a bed for your toddler with Jetbox

Key things to consider when buying Travel Gear

In each travel gear guide we cover the key features and specifications to consider before you part with your hard earned money.

Within each of those post there are some common things to always consider and here they are.

Price

Lets start with the obvious thing to consider when buying travel gear. Is it a fair price? What this really means is it a price you are happy and can afford to pay. Is it worth it.

Size

How big is the travel gear item I am buying, is it big enough to store everything I need or is it too big to carry or fit in the car etc. When it comes to Travel Gear size matters.

Design

Does it look good? And what we mean by this is does it look good for you, does it match your style or contain the brand or character you want. You may not think this is important but some travel gear items will be with you for years so you want to make sure you are happy to look at it and comfortable having it on display.

Verified Medium Score Reviews

In a world where it seems so easy to post fake reviews on Amazon and other sites this is a tricky one but I would encourage you to focus checking the verified reviews that are in the range of 3 and 4 star as these tend to be the honest ones and contain the most useful feedback on whether a travel gear product is any good.

Guarantees and warranties

Some travel gear items cost a lot of money and as we’ve said before you will want to last for years of travel so you may want to consider if it has any guarantees or warranties to protect you against failure.

Luggage, Suitcases and Carry ons

Find the best luggage for you family with these great luggage buying guides and also our quick guide on how to choose the best luggage for your travels.

Travel Gadgets for kids

The best travel gear and gadgets for your kids. All the items featured in these guides are for children aged 3 to 12 years old.

The best Head Torches For Kids

Stimming, fidget and stress toys

Can you Get Branded Travel Gear And Is it Any good?

Sometimes you want to go with a brand, or character, you know and love. Or perhaps your little travellers love. To help in that search and travel better here are our specific branded and character travel gear guides.

Disney Travel Gear

Marvel Travel Gear

Fortnite Travel Gear

Travel clothes and fashion

Find the right clothes for your next trip.

Travel Lights and Torches

We recommend you always take a couple of portable lights with you on your travels.

Trunki Travel Gear

Ever since appearing on Dragon’s Den in 2006 Trunki has been a leading brand in Children’s travel and for good reason.

Learn more about Trunki Travel Gear and see if it is right for you in these great guides.

But Trunki has it’s competitors, and one of their biggest has to Samonsite who have their own Trunki alternative. Find out how it compares in our head to head comparison of Trunki vs Dream Rider.

The Travelbetter Shop

If you want to see just what Travel Gear we’ve been buying and how we use it on our travels then check out our Amazon Shop and Instagram Page.