I bought Away's $65 packing cubes before a ... While my old soft-shell TravelPro luggage only had one big compartment for clothes, the hard-shell Away luggage has two. One side can be zipped ...

If you fill the packing cubes to capacity, they won't compress and the zipper will break. I found this out the hard way with my first set of compression packing cubes, an inexpensive set from Amazon.

There’s something so pleasing about packing your items neatly before ... Most experts I spoke to prefer hard-shell luggage, and I agree. It’s durable and easy to clean, it protects your ...

In Consumer Reports’ tests, we put 18 hard-shell carry-on bags through 31 ... We’ve also evaluated weekender bags, slim wallets, packing cubes, toiletry bags, and even travel backpacks ...