Kids Travel Pillow – Soft Bamboo Cloud Pillow by Claire De Lune, Blue

I bought one of these to test before our trip. Just this blue one since $50 bucks is more than I'd usually spend on a travel pillow but I needed something that would get here fast(got it next day) and I'd seen really good reviews about it. Rookie mistake. Now my kids are straight-up feral over it. Like, full meltdown mode. I didn't expect a pillow to start fights, but here we are. It's not like anything I've felt before — not foam, not fluffy… it's just this weird, light, moldable softness that kind of squishes like dough but still feels floaty? I don't know how to describe it. It's just GOOD. I saw a video of a lady smooshing like five of these pillows into one backpack and I was like “okay, influencer.” But I tried it, and no joke — it compresses to basically nothing. Huge win for me since I overpack and every inch is prime real estate when we travel. The bamboo Cloud Case it comes with is sooo soft and yes, washable, which I need because my kids are sticky for no reason 90% of the time. You can buy extra of the special cases separately too, the company Claire De Lune advertises the more you layer them on, the softer and mushier the pillow gets. No idea how or why that's a thing, but it works. And honestly, the mushier it gets, the more obsessed my kids are. Now that they know they can change the color of the pillow with different cases, they've decided it's a personality trait. I was told (not asked) to order “every color of the rainbow.” I cannot afford that... not even close.... BUT I'll be sneaking a couple extra cases into their Easter baskets so… score one for me. Added use- I let my toddler use it for daycare one day, now the diva refuses to use anything else but she actually slept, so when I picked her up at the end of the day she wasn't a sleep deprived toddler like usual- big win for me. And yes, I'll be ordering one for myself because I'm not about to let my child flex on me mid-flight while I'm over here trying to nap on a sweatshirt that was used to wipe their fingers. I really didn't expect to become obsessed with a pillow. But here we are. 10/10. Just get one. And maybe hide it from your kids. Final thought: I've bought a lot of random stuff on Walmart before. Some good, some… deeply questionable. But this? This is the best one yet. I'm officially going to be that mom who gives out pillows as gifts now with no regrets.