Thermarest Compressible Pillow Regular Pine

A wonderful, and comfortable pillow. As long as you understand that a camping pillow will never be as good as a proper one like you'd use at home, then you'll be pleasantly surprised by this Thermarest. It does smell a bit chemically when you first unpack it, but the label actively encourages you to machine wash and tumble dry the pillow before using it for the first time. This has two advantages - it takes away the chemical smell of the materials, and it invigorates the loft of the pillow. The loft is actually extremely good, and provides really great support which is almost as good as having a real pillow. Note that you will have to leave the pillow for at least 5 minutes before it fully expands after unpacking, and the pillow transforms quite incredibly. Fill materials (the foam bits) are surprisingly comfy, and although you are aware that there's bits of foam in the thing (if you squeeze the pillow you can tell), it doesn't annoy you when sleeping on it - it just feels like a comfortable and soft pillow. I ordered the small model and find that it is perfectly fine for a comfortable night's sleep (I didn't see a tremendous need to go for the medium or large, and was glad in the end). The pillow packs down fairly small, and if combined with a compression and / or stuff sack, can be squished even further for more effective space saving. The thing also weighs next to nothing - bonus! If you value sleeping comfortably in the wild, then for the modest space this will take up in your pack, its well worth the investment.

Love this! I have been looking for a decent travel pillow for years. I have to sleep propped up a bit so its always easier to take my own pillow, than ask for another, when I am away. Anyway, I prefer to use my own pillow. For years I have taken a 'down around' pillow with me, using a vacuum bag to make it smaller, but it still weighed about a kilo. I am walking the Milford Track later this year, so needed something much lighter. This pillow rolls up into part of the cover and although it feels odd to the touch because of the lumps of foam, its really comfortable to sleep on. I got the size large, which is plenty big enough to sleep on with a hand beside your head. The cover is like a soft suede and ideal if you just want it for travelling on a plane, train etc. I would rather sleep on a cotton pillow that's easy to wash, so being handy with a sewing machine, I made a normal size pillow case smaller by sewing up two sides. It works really well. When I first received this it didn't really smell, but I washed and dried it anyway - plumped up really well. Finally a big plus - very few airmiles - it's made in Ireland.

I went on a month long trip on an overland vehicle through Central Asia and used this every day. It was perfect for the truck and was pretty good for sleeping at night in a tent. The trick I used for the tent: I put a large packing cube which, I use for my clothes, and put that down as a base then I used this pillow as my main pillow. It wouldnt have worked for me if I didnt have the packing cube under to raise the piilow height. I am a side sleeper and I move around at night. I am used to using nice big gooshey pillows at home but I still slept well.

I have been doing camping (and not campsites to which you drive to with lots of stuff but proper wild camping) for a while now and I've tried a number of pillow options. I started with simplest, sleeping bag stuffsack stuffed with clothes, which was awful: you'd need quite a lot of items to make a descent "pillow" but this kinda destroys the idea of light weight backpacking trip, doesn't it? And this "pillow" gets flat after a couple of minutes so you never get a good night sleep. I next tried cheap flannel pillow from HiGear but it was too thin - not much of a difference from stuffsack. Then I decided to invest more into that (when your neck is in constant pain during the night, you are ready to spend a lot to avoid it in the future!) and bought Exped Air Pillow (M). This one is perfect: quite thick, anatomically shaped, weights nothing and packs into tiny sack. But it's still not quite right: it solved neck pain problems but inflatable pillows just don't feel as good as the real ones! So, in the end I came across this Thermarest pillow, which is quite cheap and seems descent quality and many people left very good reviews. I decided to give it a go and got size S (packs smallest and I don't need huge pillow anyway. Gosh, it's a great little thing! Packs relatively small, weights very little, inflates fast and relatively firm. With Exped Air, these two make perfect combination: Exped rises head high enough to avoid neck pain and then Thermarest cushion makes you feel like you sleep in real bed. And btw, earlier versions required washing before the first use and people reported awful chemical smell. It looks like Thermarest changes the materials and this pillow doesn't smell at all and can be used straight away.I strongly recommend this pillow, especially in combination with any inflatable one.

Nice and comfy pillow for camping. Perfect size for one person. Very comfy. “Folds” up to about 1/3-1/2 of its size, so easy to squeeze into my backpack. Don’t have to worry about inflating it or anything like that - it’s ready to go and very easy to fold up again when you need to put it in your bag.

This is the perfect pillow for using on an airplane!! Size and comfort..👍👍

sueño de camping asegurado

È bello, il tessuto è stupendo, comodo, facilmente richiudibile nella sua tasca per essere trasportato, ovviamente è un po' voluminoso per lo zaino... Felice di averlo acquistato.

Ottimo cuscino, ideale da trasportare in moto o nello zaino grazie all'ingombro ridotto, comodo x dormire in tenda..

Fühlt sich im ersten Moment komisch und ungewohnt an, aber das legt sich schnell. Wollte damit zuhause nur mal Probe schlafen, bevor es in den Camping Urlaub geht, aber jetzt hat es einen dauerhaften Platz in meinem Bett. Werde für meine Tochter auch noch eins kaufen.