One Wildly Expensive Luggage Brand Has A Cult Following Among Diehard Adventurers

The kind of luggage you need depends on the nature of your travels. In other words, your leather Louis Vuitton bag may not be the ideal choice when you're backpacking through Alaska. But adventurous travel doesn't mean you have to forgo style, either. Just ask those who swear by Eagle Creek luggage, duffel bags, and backpacks. Brown canvas sacks with strings these are not. Eagle Creek products are stylish and designed with rugged adventurers in mind. True to form, the gear performs well in the roughest conditions, whether that's near the top of a snow-capped volcano, at the sweltering bottom of the Grand Canyon, or an island in the rain-soaked Amazon. 

An Eagle Creek backpack may set you back a few hundred dollars — its popular two-wheel Gear Warrior XE costs upwards of $450. But you get what you pay for: the highest quality luggage parts out there, including wheels, handles, zippers, buckles, fabrics, and frames, which are covered under their No Matter What lifetime warranty.

This is one of the reasons the company has such a huge and loyal following. Customer Michael R. penned a review of the Gear Warrior XE bag on Eagle Creek's website, "I bought an Eagle Creek Hybrid many years ago. I would overload that thing on most trips and traveled more than a million miles with it. It held up spectacularly! It required repair a few times, which they did with no questions asked...The bag is great... but the service is OUTSTANDING. Customer for life."

Besides luggage, other Eagle Creek products that customers rave about are packing cubes. On a long trip, do you struggle with finding that one random wool sock lost somewhere deep in your backpack? With Eagle Creek's fabric and mesh packing cubes, you can avoid mishaps like this one. The cubes are not actually all cubes — they come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors and can store many categories of things — from socks and dirty laundry to electronics and cosmetics.

Besides storage and organization, the cubes serve other functions, too. Specially designed compression cubes pack clothes down tightly to save precious space in your bag, while garment folders keep your favorite shirts and dresses from becoming wrinkled. A recent review of packing cubes in the New York Times named Eagle Creek's Pack-It Reveal Set the "best packing cubes for most travelers."

This three-piece set of cubes is not only durable and water-repellent, it's made of 100% recycled fabric, with high-quality zippers and a clamshell-shape design to allow for easy access on three sides. Customers can purchase the mixed set of three different-sized Pack-It Reveal cubes for $59. The pieces can also be purchased individually. For more advice from expert travelers, check out these genius packing tips from Queer Eye's Tan France, a frequent flier.