A Frequent Flyer's Review of the Infinity Pillow

Travel pillows are not all made equally, yet they’re considered essential travel gear, especially if you’re on a long flight.

After creaking our necks on the usual neck pillows we’d buy at the airport (we’re the forgetful sort), we found the Infinity Pillow.

At this point, you should know that I only shill for products that I use and find beneficial. When you find something that makes air travel less miserable than it already is, you want people to know about it. You can count on me to do that.

Anyway, here are a few reasons why you need the Infinity travel pillow.

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This travel pillow is good for any sleeping style.

There are a couple of different ways to wrap the Infinity Pillow around your head to make the squish just so and to your liking, with complete neck support to boot.

If you’re in the middle seat, it’ll allow your head to rest on its side without making the old man next to you uncomfortable. It won’t do anything in the battle for the armrests, but it’s a good start.

If you’re in the aisle, you can lean your head to your open side without fear of bumping your noggin on the passing drink carts.

If you’re the lucky ducky in the window seat in the most comfortable position, you’ll have a super soft, natural headrest if you squish it up as a window pillow.

I’ve used it as a back pillow when I’m not trying to sleep but getting a little achy back there. I’ve also seen it used as a desk pillow, rolled up with hands through the openings. More on that later.

It seems like such a simple design, but I can’t emphasize enough how game-changing it is to be able to rest your head any which way and still feel an unmatched level of comfort.

Already sold? Go get it!

Note: Fans may remember this pillow under the Huzi Design name. Today, it’s sold via the official Infinity Pillow shop, with the original design credited to Amsterdam studio BCXSY and production handled by a Hong Kong–based company. Reviews remain solid, so there’s nothing to fear here!

The Infinity Pillow is machine-washable.

Give your current neck pillow a good whiff. It doesn’t smell like daisies, does it?

This one doesn’t come with some kind of built-in sweet-smelling scents, but it is machine-washable. That means you can just give it a quick rinse-and-spin after drooling all over it in your slumber. I’m talking about you. I don’t drool. I’m a lady.

I throw it in the wash after every trip we take, and I’ve encountered no problems in terms of a loss of squishiness.

Fun fact: The outer material is a breathable bamboo fabric. If you have any bed linens at home in a similar fabric, you’ll know they’re supposed to be cool to the touch. For those of you who sweat a lot in your sleep, a cooling fabric is a welcome addition to anything you’re resting on.

I’ve never had a travel pillow that was quite so low-maintenance in terms of its cleaning and care. If you’re a germaphobe, this is all great news for you.

The material was made for your cuddles.

The Infinity Pillow isn’t made of memory foam like many travel pillows you’ll see out there.

They’re stuffed with layers of fibers on the inside that are adaptive to whatever shape you’re folding the pillow in. That’s also what makes it softer and closer to what you’d sleep on at home.

If you sleep on something that’s extra firm and resembling the airport neck pillows I’ve been lamenting about here, I’m curious to hear how you got there.

That doesn’t mean these travel pillows lack the support you need to fall asleep in a variety of positions on the airplane.

You’ll find that special twist that works best for you. When you do, you’ll curse the day you allowed those other neck pillows near your resting space.

This neck pillow takes up less space than you think.

The pillow rolls up to a decent size, too, and comes with a Velcro band you can wrap around it to make it even more compact.

I’ll admit getting the band around requires some finesse, but once you get the hang of it, you can shove it in the bottom of your carry-on as I do.

Note: I haven’t explored the idea of fashioning some kind of snap for it to hook onto my travel case for easier access, but I imagine it would unroll if I tried to do so. I’m not clever enough to troubleshoot that problem.

It’s also a privacy barrier.

Are you sitting next to some busybody who keeps trying to engage in conversation with you?

Just wrap your Infinity Pillow around your head, covering your eyes and all, and all conversation will cease immediately.

Throw on some noise-canceling headphones while you’re at it, and no human or noise will be able to penetrate the restful sleep you’re about to have.

Even if you’re not sleeping, having this pillow wrapped around your neck just seems to signal “Leave me alone.”

From the minute that plane takes off, I have it wrapped around my neck. That’s true even when I’m just watching whatever emotionally manipulative movies the aircraft has loaded up for me to cry over.

It’s quite the comfy, cozy situation I have going on, on top of this thing’s added benefit as a noise-canceling pillow. I mean, it’s at least as comfy and cozy as it’s going to get on an airplane.

This pillow makes a lovely scarf.

This is basically a stuffed infinity scarf, and those are super hot right now.

I’m not saying go out and do some glacial walks with this thing wrapped around your neck. It’s still best used on an airplane. But it does keep your neck warm, even when you’re not resting when you’re on that plane.

Airplanes get drafty, and I know I can’t get any rest if I’m not warm enough.

As I said above, I like having it wrapped around me, even when I’m not sleeping. I don’t like drafty environments in whatever state I’m in.

You can use it as a desk pillow, too.

A woman sleeps on a desk with her Infinity Pillow.

I haven’t mastered this as I’m worried about slipping off to Sleepy Town if I try it, but apparently, many use the Infinity Pillow as a desk pillow for lunchtime cat naps.

This neck pillow may be the ticket to even better rest in between whatever it is you’re doing when you’re not napping on your desk.

The images I’ve seen of desk napping have people wrapping their hands through the pillow and cuddling up that way. It’s worth a try!

You won’t need those airplane pillows anymore.

I’ll admit that before finding this travel pillow, I was using airplane pillows. I just wasn’t using them anywhere near my head because I don’t know where they’ve been or what kind of cleaning process they go through from plane to plane.

Fun fact: I do know that airplane blankets only get washed every five to 30 days, and that’s horrifying. Pillows can’t be any better.

I was using those tiny plague pillows as a back pillow for a little extra cushion back there.

When flying economy, you’ll take what you can get in terms of just a little added comfort in that cruel, cruel world.

The Infinity Pillow, though, can be used as a back pillow, too. Just wrap your arms through each side once you have it laid across your back, and see how that feels.

I guarantee it feels better than those icky, scratchy pillows you get on long-haul flights. Those have been relegated to the floor at my feet, thank you very much.

These pillows are anti-bacterial and hypoallergenic.

The bamboo fabric the pillows are made of is hypoallergenic and anti-bacterial, which I welcome in today’s world.

You’re already contending with recycled air and all kinds of humans hacking around you. If you’re sensitive to things floating around in nature or suffer from seasonal allergies, you’ll probably take whatever you can get to make your flight more comfortable.

Anything that alleviates the sneezing and the wheezing that can come with those other dust collectors is fine by me.

It comes in all the coolest colors.

We’ve arrived at the “looks” department.

Having a cute travel pillow is important to some people, so if that’s what you’re after, this one comes in six different colors.

I bought the navy blue and gray (or grey) varieties for my husband and myself, as I figured they’d show any stains on them less aggressively.

Note: I’m not saying I’m a messy eater, but somehow I’m always spilling something on myself on airplanes. I blame the turbulence. Or I’m just a messy eater.

If you’re feeling festive, they also have pillows in emerald green, maroon, bright orange, and purple, among others they’re adding all the time. Just check them out for yourself.

How much does the Infinity Pillow cost?

No matter which color you choose, you’ll pay $45 for your own ticket to Slumbertown. You’ll find it on Amazon, too, but the price is generally higher over there.

Why pay more? Go straight to the source to make your next long flight as painless as possible.

(No flight is completely painless these days.)

Infinity Travel also has bamboo face masks, travel cases, and packable blankets for you to peruse, but the pillow is the only product we’ve tried.

You’ll need to fill your cart with $60 worth of items from their shop for free shipping. They accept returns within 14 days of receipt, but I really don’t think that’ll be necessary.

The Infinity Pillow is the only pillow hack you need.

You don’t need to contort yourself for comfort anymore (if you don’t want to). You don’t need to spend any more money on cheap memory foam pillows at the airport, either.

Actually, they’re generally not that cheap. What are we doing??

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A Frequent Flyer’s Review of the Infinity Pillow