Packing cubes

[jobelly]

We’re a family of 5 doing 7 hotels in our trip and I don’t want to spend time emptying out suitcases for a night or two. I have sent for packing cubes thinking I would pack for each place in the cubes but I didn’t quite get how small they all are. How on earth is it best using them? I’m not going to get 4 nights clothes for 5 of us in one cube so I’m either going to have to have loads of them or maybe just use them for swim wear/ underwear etc?

[jobelly]

Or does anyone have recommendations for large packing cubes that won’t break the bank as this trip is already doing that!

[Gryff]

IKEA ones they do large ones you can by individually I can get one of them and 2 of the smaller ones in a medium case plus a roll up thing for our toiletries and my make up hair dryer etc
As we move on I just move what I need to to the next case

[Gryff]

I think ours are actually the fabric drawer liners / case rather than packing cubes but the large ones do zip closed

[Rabel]

I've got the cheap ones off amazon but have a range of sizes. I separated the clothes out into destinations, but only had 2 adults to pack for. Worked for me.

Maybe use them to spread everyone's clothes out amongst the suitcases and then move them around so you have one case per hotel. I am sure that others have better suggestions than I do!

[jobelly]

Originally Posted by Gryff

IKEA ones they do large ones you can by individually I can get one of them and 2 of the smaller ones in a medium case plus a roll up thing for our toiletries and my make up hair dryer etc
As we move on I just move what I need to to the next case

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I’ve just looked and the only ones I can see looked fab, but then I measured and they’re actually bigger than my case (which is big!) this is gutting as they’re pennies compared to the ones I got off Amazon.

[Gryff]

Dh prefers the ikea ones to the expensive set I’ve got as he doesn’t even lift them out his case as he can see everything which believe me is a bonus no more of that where what ever he happens to be looking for at the time

[ali-s]

We did multiple hotels on our last trip. I had packing cubes for each person, underwear, t shirts, bottoms, misc - swimwear, sweatshirts etc. It was so easy at each hotel, the suitcase stayed tidy, repacking took 1 minute. We each had a change of clothes in carry on, if you have more than one suitcase just replicate the cubes. Packing for each destination would never work for us, I don't know what I want to wear on a day weeks in advance.

I bought the Amazon brand Eono , plenty big enough for us

[Claudette]

I got mine from Amazon and the set had a range of different size cubes. I pack a couple of days worth of stuff in one of the largest cubes and then I give this to DH to put into his luggage in case mine goes missing (he does the same).

But otherwise, no I do not pack cubes by day / stay, I have no inclination to plan what I am going to wear in advance! I pack each cube by type of item, all tops, all bottoms etc. I usually take a few dresses for the evening and I don’t put these in a cube at all. The convenience when moving hotel is that I just need to get three or four cubes out of my case and pop them straight into a drawer. Repacking at the end of each stay is also very quick.

[jobelly]

I thought about packing the cubes by items and that would work well for me and DH but I just know the kids would be pulling all the stuff out if theirs and either I would end up repacking numerous times or they would end up stuffing their stuff back in and it would end up creased as anything.