Travel with your own Pillow

Posted by Dan Florio Apr 9, 2006

Guest Blog: I always travel with my own pillow. I am very pillow-oriented and can't sleep properly with a substandard pillow. Hotels often offer these mile-high uncomfortable ones...or too-thin nonexistant limp things that you can only pile up into the semblance of a pillow if they give you enough of them.

My own travel pillow is a small, portable, but perfectly proportioned affair. I have two different kinds, actually, depending on how much extra room I have in my luggage. One is an actual real standard-sized pillow with my luxurious, silky Pima Cotton pillowcase that I bought at Goodwill. It goes on road trips, bus/train trips, when staying at a friend's house overnight and whenever I am not traveling light.

The other thing I use is a little neck pillow that has several comfortable positions for various uses - one for propping up my head to read, or for sleeping lying down, or for trying to sleep on planes. I found this at Goodwill too (I am an unashamed scavenger).

Since all pillows attributes are a personal choice, you will just need to try different travel pillows to find the right one for you. You don't even have to feel embarrassed at your pickiness, since as this blog shares, you are not alone in your pillow woes.

I like to travel with a lavendar linen spray too. I use it at home and have a small size for traveling. Dan even likes the spray and will obligingly sit up to let me scent his pillow before lights-out. It does help us sleep better and through the night, no matter the condition of the available pillow. - Jill Florio

Read Jennifer Miner's article about luxury hotel pillows at Luxury and Resort Travel.