Therm-a-Rest Compressible Pillow

Summary

Awesome product!

We have been using these pillows for over a year now and they hold up great. Easily washable in the laundry. 

If you are looking to have the comfort of a pillow but are worried about the space taken up I reccomend buying the smallest size and tucking a jacket under it to raise it up to feel more like a bigger pillow. There isn't much reason to buy a large one. You won't have to worry about the comfort, it's amazing. 

Keep in mind that the stuffing is small cubes of memory foam so they compress and expand.  With that being said, we found that if you leave the pillow rolled up for a month or two at home it takes quite a few hours to re-expand and even then it's not great comfort.  We open them up now and when we hit the trails the foam re-expands very quickly.  Even a few days is ok, it's just when it's folded up for long periods that it becomes a problem.  Remember to wash it.  

Summary

This is a nice pillow, I guess. I'm just not sold on the idea of pillows. If you are going to bring one, buy a full sized for car camping or stuff a coat underneath the head of your bag.

Just look at the picture above. This pillow can be a little chunky. It's ok, but isn't that why you buy and pack and use a pillow? A jacket feels about equally chunky when placed under the head of a good mummy bag. My wife and I took this on our honeymoon, but didn't use it after that.  

I would not highly recommend this.

Wow!!!! This is an amazing pillow!

I have now had this for a while, I got it to replace a down REI brand pillow that I thought was neat, but this one seriously blows it out of the water!!! It's perfect for car camping, day trips, overnighters and I say backpacking too (because I'm comfort driven) Tips to using it though, since when you get it it won't be fluffy. The directions say wash it and let it dry before first use and I think this is crucial! After I did this to mine, it grew to twice the size!

I love it though, really! I feel like I have the perfect camping sleep system, coupled with my Thermarest Prolite Plus! (I spoiled myself). Well worth the $$$ well worth it for a good night sleep like this!

I dont care what everyone says about packability I'm taking his pillow everywhere. Car camp, backpack, road trip. I'll sacrifice weight for the comfort it brings. 

After 6 months around the world, from Asia to Europe to America and beyond this pillow is by far THE BEST thing have ever had the pleasure of owning!!!

It has been used in every situation thinkable and has provided me with many many more hours of rest and sleep that I would not have had if it wasn't for this product!

If you think its too large for traveling don't! It can be squeezed into anywhere and the fact that it returns to normal once unrolled is AMAZING!

Buy it and you won't regret it once!

I bought this pillow for leg and torso support, owing to knee pain from a knee replacement surgery without such support. The pillow is fine around the house but not thick enough for the support needed. I'm looking for an inflatable for my backpacking and tent camping needs.

There is nothing wrong with the pillow other than the lack of thickness. I did think that for backpacking it took up a lot of room and weighed a lot to do too little.

A great pillow if you aren't too concerned about space and weight. Very soft and comfy. The small size is decent for those who toss and turn, or sleep on their side. Compressible fill expands in a matter of minutes to provide a firm and uniform surface.

Unfortunately, it only compresses to about 1/3 its size by rolling up into itself and cinching with a pullcord. Wish it would compress more. Otherwise, a fine pillow.

I like this pillow....although mine seems to have noticeably less filler than my wife's (who got hers a few months before me)...whether I just got an anomaly I don't know, but it still keeps my head nice and padded and warm. I got the small size, fits in my mummy-bag head area (?) nicely. Mine seems to compress more over the night, I wish I had hers.

Excellent little pillow! Money well spent on something I originally thought to be over-the-top. It compacts well to a small size and is extremely light. BUY THIS PILLOW!