Best presents for travelers
Even with the pandemic, frequent fliers, travel lovers and globetrotting family and friends are still dreaming of travel. This practical gift guide will help you get them the perfect gift, and the best part is all gifts are under USD 40.
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For the home
Scratch The World Travel Map (USD 23.99)
Whether you want to scratch off where you’ve been of maybe all the items on your bucket list, this map won’t disappoint.
There are lots of other color options too - checkout the whole Amazon list here.
Atlas Obsura (USD 26.49)
For your favorite book loving travel friend, this guide to the world’s hidden wonders will keep their travel dreams going strong.
Where to go when (USD 18.99)
How do you know if you are choosing to take your vacation at the ‘best’ time? with only so many free days at year, this book will help you travel at the best time weather-wise, and people-wise, so you can get the most our of your trip.
Useful gadgets
Selfie Stick (USD 19.99)
This is the best selfie stick ever! But we won’t bore you with all the details here, you can read all about it on our dedicated selfie stick post - yes, we love it that much.
External Portable Power Bank (USD 21.99)
It takes practice to know when to charge your smartphone. Say wut?! Seriously, when you travel a lot, you know exactly how long your phone battery will last; and how much time you need to charge your phone with your portable power bank to be ready for that next unplanned adventure. This super slim battery is perfect to carry around All.The.Time. Oh! and if you are all topped up, you can charge any other device that uses a USB connection, like your GoPro. Yup, it’s that versatile.
Travel power strip surge protector (USD 13.99)
This teeny, tiny surge protector can easy be used pretty much anywhere; so yes! if your travel loving relative, or friend, wants to pretend the living room is an exotic cafe in some beautiful destination and they just need a couple of extra outlets, then let’s make that dream happen. All kidding aside, this really is one of the best travel tech accessories - checkout our full blog post, our fave tech accessories, where we rave about it. Also, don’t you just love the 4 USB ports?!?! so you don’t have to bring all your other USB adapters!! Ok, we’ll stop now.
Electronics organizer (USD 8.99)
Even if you are not a digital nomad, there will be charging cables, memory cards, USB adapters and wall adapters that you’ll have to bring along. This set comes with 2 small pouches that don’t take up much room, and if you’d like one for yourself, just keep 1 of them, we won’t tell.
RFID sleeve protectors (USD 6.99)
To be honest we don’t know if the threat of devices reading your RFID chip embedded into your credit cards and passport is really dangerous, but for the price, and how slim these sleeves are, we’d rather be safe than sorry. And we think it’s a thoughtful gift that doesn’t break the bank.
Comforts of home, on the road
Portable water bottle (USD 35.96)
This cool water bottle can be used with or WITHOUT the filter. That’s right, when you are at home, use it without the filter, come travel time, just screw on the filter and you are good to go. Onwards!
AeroPress (USD 29.95) & Stainless Steel Coffee Mug Cup (USD 12.99)
Believe it or not sometimes getting good coffee can be hard. For your caffeine loving friends, this little coffee press doesn’t take up much room and will deliver their very needed dose of coffee. Did we mention it’s easy to clean too? If you want to round up the gift, throw in a coffee mug too.
Reusable grocery bags (USD 13.99) & Reusable utensils (USD 10.99)
Especially when you go to the beach; or are moving locations but it’s not far and you have stuff you don’t want to pack nicely; or you are going to the market and don’t want a million little plastic bags; or maybe you don’t want plastic bags at all - you get the gist, reusable bags are awesome! Same with the reusable utensils - sometimes you just want to eat take out and it’s nice to have your own utensils and not some flimsy plastic fork. Checkout our blog post how to be a more sustainable traveler for more sustainability tips.
Adventure time
Waterproof dry bag (USD 8.99)
Dry bags pack small (literally, you can put this at the bottom of your your bag or carry-on) and are great for beach days, kayaking, volcano hikes, white water rafting… you name it! And did we mention they float too? So you never have to worry about your things sinking to the bottom… just don’t let it get away.
Microfiber towel (USD 12.70)
Honestly, the microfiber fabric is not our favorite but for the amount of space these towels take up, we are happy to put up with the less-nice-feeling fabric. They absorb a lot of water, dry quick and take up almost no room, win-win in our book!
Waterproof playing cards (USD 8.89)
The genius part is not just the price, these cards are waterproof so now it doesn’t matter if you are playing at the beach or someone spilled some beer. Plus, they take up the same amount of space as regular cards, but last way longer - win!
Random but useful
Compression socks (USD 9.99)
Incredibly useful when you are flying or hiking - we love that these socks feel good during flights and protect you against mosquito bites when climbing volcanoes - yep, these are winners!
Eye Mask (USD 3.99)
We don’t normally wear eye masks at home but on a plane these guys are life savers! and they don’t take up much room at all.
Luggage scale (USD 6.99)
For your souvenir loving friends who are great packers and might go over the allotted airline weight, this little luggage scale will make their trip to the airport home a whole lot easier to bear. No more nasty surprises at the airport.
When all else fails?
Gift cards make excellent gifts! Now you don’t have to rack your brain for what your travel loving friend will need. We’ve left a few links below to some of our favorite stores.
Wow! this was a long post! We hope you found our travel lover’s gift guide tips useful - leave in the comments below if you liked any particular gift or if you think we might’ve missed a good one. Until next time, happy shopping!
