Travelrest Nest Ultimate Travel Pillow: Neck Support for Great Sleep

Throughout my life, I’ve tried a bunch of U-shaped journey pillows—those that go round your neck—and albeit, they’ve all sucked. But just lately I slept seven hours (seven!) within the center seat of a long-haul flight with Travelrest’s Nest. Normally I’d really feel like a defeated Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robot if I blinked too slowly, however I wakened feeling refreshed. It wasn’t the primary time, both. 

More than something, it was the form I observed first. Most journey pillows appear like puffy donuts with a chew taken out within the entrance. The sides are sometimes too low and the froth too squishy to maintain the neck firmly upright in any course. The bulging pillow pushes the again of the neck away from the seat, so the pillow finally ends up forcing you right into a slouch, and the dearth of cushion underneath the chin lets your head droop ahead while you nod off. All your trip photos have you ever stooped over like Quasimodo due to your sore neck.

The Travelrest solves the primary downside by making the rear of the pillow flat so it enables you to relaxation upright in opposition to the seat again with out slouching you ahead. Rubber strips on the flat floor hold the pillow from slipping. It additionally covers all the 360 levels of the wearer’s neck. You simply slip your head in by means of the hole on the entrance after which use the hook-and-loop fastener to shut the hole. No extra ahead neck droop.

Neck Support

The Travelrest is far more sculpted to carry the neck upright than a typical neck pillow. The excessive sides attain up and cup the chin all the way in which round. Without feeling claustrophobic, the Nest holds the top with out leaving a lot wiggle room, so at the same time as you go to sleep, your head is held pretty upright. Being capable of loosen up my neck muscle tissue fully is a large boon.

These excessive sides can get in the way in which in the event you put on over-the-ear headphones on the identical time to drown out the engines. It’s not a dealbreaker, simply awkward, and one thing to remember. If you want silence to sleep then I advocate utilizing earplugs as an alternative of noise-canceling headphones.

The form alone would not be sufficient to maintain the neck nicely supported. The microfiber cowl is velvety gentle and nice in opposition to the pores and skin, and the reminiscence foam is agency with simply sufficient give for consolation. For such a dense foam, it compresses right down to an impressively small package deal. The Nest comes with a stuff sack, and it squishes right down to a few quarter of its dimension when you wrestle it into the sack and tighten up the drawcord. Then you fold it in half and use one other hook-and-loop fastener to compress the pillow additional. 

The solely factor I’d prefer to see on the stuff sack is an attachment level to clip it to the surface of a backpack or baggage—a hook, a buckle, even only a material loop the place I might hook a carabiner. I’ve been getting across the limitation by threading a strap of my backpack underneath the hook-and-loop fastener and buckling it closed, however it’s not preferrred, because it flops round whereas on my again. Travelrest features a free pair of purposeful however unremarkable earplugs, however I’d slightly have a hook.

Catch Some Z’s

The Travelrest Nest prices $40, which is not obscenely costly. It is available in blue and grey, and you’ll take away the duvet and wash it after a visit—one other good contact that numerous pillows do not provide. 

The solely actual argument in opposition to Travelrest’s Nest is that it goes out and in of inventory with regularity. This has been a problem for a while. If you are keen to fork over the 4 Alexander Hamiltons, do it as quickly as you recognize you are occurring a visit, as a result of in the event you do not and the Nest is bought out, you will be tossing and turning on a type of foam donuts, and who needs that?