Eagle Creek Pack-It Gear Quick Trip Review

We’ve often said that toiletry bags and Dopp kits (whichever term you prefer) are one of the most important slices of home life that you should bring on every trip. Maybe not in those exact words, but the point is staying as fresh and good-looking as you would back home—perhaps even more since you’ll be meeting lots of unfamiliar people. Ah, but toiletry kits come in all shapes and sizes, so how do you pick one? Well, if we look at Eagle Creek’s Pack-It Gear Quick Trip (good luck saying that five times in a row), the answer is clearly to choose the rectangular cuboid.

Why? That’s because the shape of this toiletry bag allows it to open up into a neat little tray of toiletries. Set it down on top of your accommodation’s dresser or toilet tank, and presto! You have everything you need to wash yourself. However, there has to be a catch, right? Other toiletry bags are more pouch-like and not tray-like. But is there a downside? Let’s find out.

The Rundown

On the outside of the Pack-It Gear Quick Trip is a 900-denier poly twill fabric that’s 100% recycled and has a TPU laminate coating. That all sounds good and jargon-y, but it simply means it has a very water-resistant fabric. You can tell just by how shiny it looks. In a way, it looks a lot more like tarpaulin than it does cloth, which makes sense given that it’s a toiletry bag. It’ll spend half its life inside a travel backpack and the other half inside different bathrooms. To top it off, the zippers are #8s from ZOOM with a PU coating. ZOOM is not as well-known or widespread as YKK, but we’ve rarely had problems with their zippers in other bags.

Overall, we just like the solid feel of the Pack-It Gear Quick Trip. Empty or not, it maintains its cuboidal shape quite well. It’s a reassuring feature for a toiletry bag since you want your toiletries protected if you drop the kit. Trust us, one of the last things you want on your vacation is for your creams and powders to implode in your toiletry bag.

As to colorways, if you’re not impressed with this dashing Mossy Green variant, there’s also River Rock (gray), Sahara Yellow (looks more orange than yellow to us, to be honest), and everyone’s agreeable favorite: Black.

Other than the fabric and zipper, the only exterior feature on the Pack-It Gear Quick Trip is the side handle. Interestingly, Eagle Creek’s website shows a longer nylon handle, while ours has a low-profile one. We’re unsure if one is more up-to-date or if multiple SKUs are going around. Regardless, just be aware that such a difference exists.

Whichever Pack-It Gear Quick Trip you get, a handle like this comes in handy for hanging it behind a bathroom door, a nearby tree branch, or externally attaching it to your bag if you run out of space.

The Pack-It Gear Quick Trip opens up using two zippers, each with a paracord pull to make unzipping easy. There’s noticeable resistance around the sharp corners, so having paracord pulls makes the process easier. The opening runs across each end and the entire length of the pouch, resulting in a completely open tray configuration.

This is one of the more unique toiletry bag layouts we’ve tried. The cuboid gets split into two triangular prisms, with gussets on each end to fill the gaps and form a complete tray. A zippered mesh pocket completely encompasses one side, while the other is more open but also features a flat zippered mesh pocket. While we do like the open layout, in theory, it’s somewhat flawed in practice.

The idea is to place smaller accessories, like a nail clipper, bobby pins, a toothbrush, and earbuds, in the large zippered mesh pocket. Meanwhile, bulky gear, like toiletry bottles, stands freely next to the flat zippered pocket. However, those bulky toiletries can bump into the large zippered mesh pocket when you close it. Moreover, since there’s nothing to hold those bulky toiletries in place, any jostling can jumble everything.

Quick Comparison

How do other toiletry bags handle this? Aer’s Travel Kit 2, for example, has a variety of elastic loops and dividers to keep toiletries organized. Similarly, Bellroy’s Dopp Kit has stretchy mesh pockets and a simpler pouch interior with no parts clashing even when you close it.

Then there’s Peak Design’s Wash Pouch, which has a lot of segmentation inside. That said, it also suffers from parts clashing since all of the available space is mostly only usable when the pouch is open. Once you close it, gear gets squeezed together, just like with the Pack-It Gear Quick Trip.

Packability

In terms of packability, the Pack-It Gear Quick Trip’s uniform cuboid shape and size make it more like a packing cube. This means it won’t squeeze in as easily as its slimmer pouch-like counterparts mentioned in the previous section.

That said, most of it translates to usable capacity, not wasted space. In other words, if you make space for the Pack-It Gear Quick Trip in your travel bag, you won’t be disappointed with the number of toiletries you can bring, just potentially a deficiency of organization.