Eagle Creek Tour 40L Travel Pack

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] It's a well-made bag. The size is perfect for short trips.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Great pack fit all we needed for 10 day trip. I bought mine a year ago and liked it so much bought one for my husband

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Eagle creek gets my highest mark. I travel weekly. These bags are as lightweight and tough as they come. Eagle creek honors their warranty. after 3+ years of flawless weekly use It took the airlines conveyor belt machinery and brute force to cause damage to my bag. And eagle creek quickly replaced the bag with no hassle. I’m a lifelong customer.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I bought this during my recent visit to the US for the flight back to the UK. I know that Eagle Creek makes good quality products, I use an Eagle Creek roller for many years and it is still perfect after many long distance travels. This 40L backpack is made of very good quality material including the zips and is light . For my flight I used it as a check in because the straps can be covered, I used it as a backpack on the way to the airport and from the airport to my house ( including a two hour train journey ). There is rain cover. Very comfortable as a backpack. The minus is the fact that the front pocket is not practical for me .

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Of all the travel backpacks I researched, this one is by far the best. My intended purpose is to use the bag for travel, where I walk extensively (urban and rural), take various forms of crowded transportation, and sometimes need to carry everything as I tour because I'm in between destinations. E.g., I'm not taking taxis door to door, nor am I mountaineering. Also, I tend to pack light, as a disciple of Rick Steves. What I like: - The design is sleek and premium. The zips hide away. It doesn't look like you are carrying a suitcase on your back or like you just reached the top of Half Dome. - I was able to pack a lot into it, using a full 40 liters of capacity. Yet the bag still feels compact. That's really important to me for walking easily through packed areas, and so I don't stand out like I just stepped out of a space capsule. - In non-expanded mode, the bag is even more compact, meaning I can take it out as a day bag when I need to carry more or walk greater distances. (Usually I use a very lightweight compressible pack for the day to just carry a jacket, water bottle, sunscreen, and guide book.) - I like the method of stowing away the straps - you wrap/zip over them. Other bags make you tuck the straps in. I prefer the wrap/over method because it optimizes speed of conversion-to-duffle rather than conversion-to-backpack. That fits my use-case: most of the time I'll be in backpack mode, until the last minute when I'm going to board a plane/train. That's the moment when I'm in a rush. I'm not as time pressed when disembarking because there isn't a conductor blowing a whistle. - I like the front pockets. (Some bags don't have them.) While I'll have nearly everything packed and compressed in the main compartment, when I get on to transportation I want to be able to access just a few things - book, snack, airpods, charger. I'll use the lower pocket for that. Upper pocket for sunglasses and tissue. Some bags have too many pockets (which for me adds confusion or they go unused which adds weight). This bag strikes me as having the goldilox amount. - Straps have a band in the right place to hold sunglasses. - Side bottle holder (some bags lack that) fits even wide bottles. - Security features (to slow down a thief). While I won't rely on them (anything of value I stuff down my pants in a waist wallet), the security zippers at least should dissuade a pick pocket from digging around and tossing my tissues on the floor (happened to a friend). - It's easy to access the main compartment, especially from the top. That's where I usually keep a jacket or hat. - Comfort. The straps are trekker-level in thickness and adjustability, and the back area has enough rigidity to distribute the weight. But the bag remains lightweight. What could be better: - Side pockets open downward when bag is in duffel mode. I intend that mode to be used only when boarding a plane/train, in which case I'll have everything secured down anyway, so it's not a big deal. - Waist belt is thin and relatively skinny in the front. It does the job though. Personally, I prefer a minimal belt (I dislike the travel bags that look like you are wearing a hip helmet), so it's probably the right tradeoff to keep things light. I did feel like it was working to distribute weight, it was comfortable to wear, and doesn't look like I just won a boxing match. - Zips don't look rugged, like a mountain gear bag's might. They seem high quality, but I haven't tested them over several weeks of use. - I'd like a security feature on the side/laptop zip. I can easily add a loop that I wrap around the compression strap though. Note, the other large carry-on travel bags I considered were by Patagonia, Tortuga, Peak Design, Cotopaxi, and Osprey, as well as others that I ruled out. All are very fine bags, but what I think is important is to evaluate in terms of use cases and how the bag's feature serves them, rather than looking just at the feature. E.g., organization features with pen loops, phone pockets, etc look cool to me, but I know I'll never actually use them in the wild. Whereas I know what does matter is how quickly I can stow the straps before the train departs, or how quickly I can fetch out a jacket from the top when the wind kicks up. All in all, I think this is the perfect travel backpack. If the sign of great design is that it feels 99% invisible to the observer, I think this bag will feel invisible to me -- something I don't think about because everything I need it to do "just works". I'll focus all of my energy on experiencing adventure and discovery.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Both my husband and I love this travel bag. It's comfortable, we can carry it on the plane rather than checking it. I like the built-in rain fly. The laptop compartment is handy. Overall, we've enjoyed traveling with it.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I spend months and months searching for my perfect travel backpack. While there are a few quirks (would love the water bottle and handle to be on the other side and the rain cover to be detachable) this bag has everything I was looking for. Though definitely not as popular as all the others one baggers talk about online, this is up there with the rest of them.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Many packs out there are not designed for short women. This works well. Fits in plane overhead. I also like the laptop sleeve. The rain fly is nice but I wish it were detachable as it adds bulk on trips where I know I won’t need it and would rather have the space. Overall a great travel backpack.