TREKOLOGY Ultralight Inflatable Camping Travel Pillow - ALUFT 2.0 Compressible, Compact, Comfortable, Ergonomic Inflating Pillows for Neck & Lumbar Support While Camp, Hiking, Backpacking

Really fantastic pillow. It was a great anti-slip design on the back that keeps it from moving on nylon. The valve to inflate it is great, it has a cap that will allow air in and but doesn't let air escape until you are ready to put the pillow away.Really comfortable and decent size when fully inflated, easy to put away as well.

I love it! I've only tried it on my camping pad, in my living room, but it worked great, is comfortable, deflates to a very compact size, and I'm looking forward to trying it this summer on our outdoor camping trips. It cradles your head so you don't roll off. It also has a strap so that it can be strapped to your sleeping pad, so you don't loose it in the night.

For the price and small size when deflated, this is a good value. It blows up with 3-4 full breaths and deflates down to the size of a fist (with a carrying bag) by pushing a button in the center of the valve which is nicer quality than a typical inflatable pool or inflatable pool toys, as examples. I'm a stomach and sometimes side sleeper and this is passable on its own. I like to bunch up an article of clothing, such as a soft fleece, over top of it for added height and comfort. This improves the experience significantly. The pillow on its own is okay, just not the best because it's a rubber material and filled with air so it isn't comparable to a soft cloth pillow you'd have on your bed. Still better than jamming a large pillow from home into my camping tote. Would really be nice for backpackers because of small footprint and weight.

I bought this to use on RAGBRAI (bike ride across Iowa in 7 days). This pillow is great!! It inflates with just a few puffs and really deflates. Best yet is that I found it to be VERY comfortable to sleep on even for someone like me that typical doesn't do tent life. Highly recommended!!

First of all, my confessions: I'm a sleeping snob. Not a snob when I'm asleep, but a snob about my sleeping arrangements. I've lived in three countries and eight states; I've slept in a LOT of beds (I could tell you stories of bedbugs, mice, cockroaches, termites, bats, racoons, diesel fuel, stone pillows, worn out springs, protruding springs, no springs, short beds, beds so narrow that two people had to sleep in opposite directions to fit...you get the picture).Now at the beginning of my 7th decade, I've a routine I follow when I sleep. But the weak link in all of this is, you guessed it, since I am reviewing this item, the pillow.Long story short, the wife and I were planning a trip to Aruba last month and I knew I didn't want to spend five nights on hotel pillows. Neither did I have room to take my home pillow. So...off to Amazon I went armed with my encyclopedic knowledge of my sleeping habits. After looking at a lot of 'em, I ordered this one in orange. Why orange? Who knows, except that I felt I needed a little excitement in my life. (I once observed my dad in the garage changing the oil in the car. Funny thing, he had all the oil cans, when oil still came in cans, upside down. I asked him about this and he replied with a sheepish grin, "Just needed a bit of excitement.")I read some of the reviews and looked at the pictures and thought, "This just might work." Plus, it was deflatable and weighed so little and wrapped up so compactly, that I ordered it.Fast forward to Aruba. I stripped one of the hotel pillows of its case, inflated my new pillow, put it in the case, and proceeded to get comfortable. Some of the reviews indicated that you might have to adjust the air volume to get it just the way you wanted it, and sure enough, after about three changes, I felt like I had it about right. And I slept well. For five nights.When I got home, yes, again you guessed it, I replaced my home pillow with this little slumber number. I've been sleeping on it since. It hasn't lost air and gives me better support than other pillows.I don't know how much more convincingly I can recommend this little orange pillow than to tell you I'm using it at home instead of using the others I own. I sleep better, I am master of its height and support, and its shape cradles my head unlike any other pillow I've used. Can't beat that for $17.Now some notes. 1) There IS a learning curve to the valve. Press it one way and you inflate it. Press it the other and the valve opens and it deflates. I can't help wondering if some of the reviewers that claimed it lost air hadn't mastered the valve. Or maybe there's a tiny hole in the pillow. Or maybe the valve's defective. It happens. Personally, I haven't noticed any change in volume since I blew it up the first night back from the Caribbean, so I think I've learned the valve technique.2) There is a better way to deflate it to get all but a few molecules of air out of it. Well...maybe all but a few more than a few. Open the valve and start from the opposite end by rolling it up tightly like an oversized straw. Then unroll it. Or not. You'll get a flat-as-a-pancake, actually a flatter-than-a-pancake, (or an oversized straw) pillow that'll slip into any ol' place in your luggage.3) It IS smaller that regular pillows. So...if you're a big pillow guy or gal, you probably won't like it.4) I tried using it on the airplane coming back to the US, and it's just not a plane pillow. I finally tried placing it on the seat back tray and laying down on it. But you know how little room we regular Joes and Joanns get in boarding group 5. It didn't work. But, hey, it isn't made to be a plane pillow, so I'm ok with that.I'll sum it up. A good pillow, even if you only use it for camping or trips. A good price. A good structure for head support. It has some little dots on it that prevent it from sliding around if you don't use a pillow case. It comes with a tote bag (though why you'd want to use it is beyond me when you can get it so flat when deflating) and a strap that I think is supposed to be wrapped around a sleeping bag to keep your pillow from moving at night on slippery fabric. I can adjust it however I want, so it isn't a one-size-fits-all sort o' thing.And, oh, it's orange; but the teal's nice, too.

First I need a good pillow while sleeping but also motocamp and need something that packs down small. I bought this and had some concerns, but also got a the best selling high end camping pillow.. It matches 95% of the comfort, and packs down much smaller. Definitely a good value.

I thought the product was great, the idea of a lightweight and easily portable pillow was perfect for backpacking. If the pillow was too firm I could just deflate a little to customize the feel. The pillow also rests inside of a mummy style sleeping bag with ease. As far as the strap on the back it provided no benefit to me as I could not wrap it around anything.After using the pillow for a reasonable amount of time I noticed there was a slight bulge forming. After a while it was not so slight and was actually becoming a nuisance. I try my best to take care of all my backpacking gear and most of it is still in perfect working order but this is the one item that I can no longer use.This is where I'm torn on this review because I really think it's a good product but the failure is either a quality control or a durability issue that needs to be addressed. Also I purchased a second one for my GF and that one is still performing as intended. I will review my options before I make another purchase but I may be inclined to try it one more time if I don't find better options.