Our story

We pack it before you do

BonVoyage started because one of us spent a week in Portugal digging through a suitcase every single morning. Not a dramatic origin. Just an annoying one, repeated often enough to do something about.

Packing cubes in use inside an open suitcase

The whole filter is one question

Did it survive a real trip?

Every product on this site went somewhere before it got a page. If a zip snagged, a strap dug in, or a bottle leaked into someone's laundry, it did not make the cut — and a few things didn't. We are a small team, so this is not a lab. It is people packing their own bags and reporting back.

What survives tends to be simple: light, durable, and easy to find in a dark cabin.

How we choose

Three trips, then a page

Nothing gets listed on a supplier photo and a spec sheet.

One — someone actually wants it

It has to solve a problem we've hit ourselves, or that customers keep emailing about. "It would sell" is not a reason on its own.

Two — it goes on three trips

Minimum. Different people, different climates, at least one long-haul. We look for the failure, not the photo.

Three — we write what we found

Including the annoying bits. If the smallest cube is smaller than you'd expect, the page says so rather than letting you find out in a hotel room.

Where we are

The numbers, honestly

28+Countries we ship to

1–2Business days to dispatch

30Days to change your mind

2026Year we started

We're young. We'd rather say that than borrow the language of a fifty-year-old luggage house. What we can promise is the shipping window, the return policy, and a human on the other end of the email.

What we believe

Four things we won't move on

Light beats clever

Gear that adds weight has to earn it twice. Nothing here needs an app to work.

Say the trade-off

Every product has one. Custom prints can't be returned. Compression saves space, not weight. We'd rather tell you now.

Every traveller counts

First trip abroad or hundredth. Hostel or hotel. We don't do gatekeeping about who's a "real" traveller.

No pressure tactics

No fake countdowns, no invented original prices. If something's discounted, it was genuinely that price before.

What we sell

Six shelves, and that is the shop

104 products in total — 84 pieces of travel gear we stock ourselves, and 20 apparel designs printed to order.

Apparel is printed after you order, so it takes 2–4 days to print before dispatch and may ship separately from gear. Custom prints are final sale — the size guide is there to make sure the size is right first time.

Getting it to you

We ship to 28+ countries

Free worldwide shipping on orders over $60, a flat $5.95 below that. Orders are packed and dispatched in 1–2 business days.

In transit it is 3–5 business days in the US, 5–8 to the UK and EU, 6–10 to Australia and New Zealand, and 8–14 to the rest of the world. Duties are shown at checkout so nothing extra is charged on arrival.

Thirty days to return anything unused in its original packaging, and we cover the return label. The help pages have the full detail.

Talk to us

There's a person behind the inbox

Pre-trip questions get answered inside a working day — usually faster. If your trip is close, say so in the subject line and we'll push it up the queue.

Email the crew Read the help pages