Frommer’s: Eagle Creek (2021)

As We Reassess Our Travel Lives, Eagle Creek Relaunches Pack-It System

It's a heck of a time to launch a new packing product, but maybe Eagle Creek is counting on our pent-up wanderlust. Or perhaps the baggage giant is hoping that we're all using the pandemic pause to throw out our lonely and long-unused luggage, Marie Kondo–style, to make room for new stuff.

Whatever the reasoning, the manufacturer has relaunched the Pack-It system of luggage organizers first introduced in the mid-1990s.

I've never been a big fan of packing cubes—I'm more of a stack-it-and-roll-it kind of guy—but there's no question that Pack-It has been popular with other travelers. And in the years since the original version was introduced, we've seen imitators pop up from Shacke, eBags, Rockland, Paravel, and other brands . 

It's perhaps because of that rampant competition that Eagle Creek has decided to differentiate its product line by introducing oh-so-subtle variations. The company previously began selling a lightweight, ripstop fabric take on the cube called Specter.

This month's additions to the line also go granular, perhaps to flatter your self-image as a traveler. A press announcement from Eagle Creek teased out three new personalities from what you'd ordinarily think were merely compact packing organizers. The new varieties are Reveal (with "wide see-through mesh that allows a top-to-bottom view of your stuff"), Isolate ("odor control for sweaty and smelly clothes"), and Gear ("the durable option").