Wood shoe tree for travel?

[GBer]

Any advice for the travelers? Should you take a wood shoe tree with you? Can't rotate shoes as often and shoe will not get much of breather except when you sleep. Only drawback is space and weight, especially if you have only carry-on.

 

[onix]

While travel, don't bother with wood tree. Your socks work wonder.

 

[MalfordOfLondon]

Originally Posted by onix

While travel, don't bother with wood tree. Your socks work wonder.

Massive +1 on this. I made a mistake of carrying a pair of wooden shoe trees the first time I went travelling.

Second time I stuffed them full with socks. If you're going backpacking the key is less weight and more space.

 

[factorial]

As long as you're taking another pair of shoes in your bag ANYWAYS, yeah just put trees in those shoes. It's not like they weigh that much, and the only thing you can fit inside shoes is socks (which can easily get stuffed somewhere else), so you're not really saving any space by not taking the trees.

I travel on a weekly basis for 1-4 days at a time, I generally wear one pair of shoes and pack a pair of running shoes for exercise, trees go in the running shoes for travel then come out and go in the dress shoes at the end of every day.

This is assuming normal travel for work or for pleasure, not something where you're backpacking across Europe or climbing the Himalayas and need to conserve on weight. The weight of shoe trees is negligible inside of a standard rolling carry-on.

 

[scurvyfreedman]

Originally Posted by factorial

As long as you're taking another pair of shoes in your bag ANYWAYS, yeah just put trees in those shoes.

+1.

Any time my trip is long enough to require two pairs, I bring a trees in the second pair and let them reside in whatever shoes I'm not wearing that day.

 

[MyOtherLife]

You can always use crumpled newspaper (loosely packed) as a temporary fix.

 

[MalfordOfLondon]

Shoe trees do weigh a lot - especially if you're carting them around all day! An extra few lbs can mean the difference between a gruelling day's travel and a pleasant one - trust me!

 

[Viral]

I have a pair of plastic trees I use for travel.............work great!

 

[Roguls]

Originally Posted by Viral

I have a pair of plastic trees I use for travel.............work great!

...and do nothing!

I pack a pair of trees to spite my wife's gross over-packing.

 

[Outlet_cherry_picker]

^+1

 

[MalfordOfLondon]

Are we talking about travelling as in backpacking or as in suitcasing it? If it's backpacking - they would be the last things I'd take.

 

[JayJay]

I usually stuff the shoes I'm packing with socks or underwear. The wood trees add weight.

 

[GBer]

Plane travel with suitcase - perhaps a train, but rarely.

 

[ljrcustom]

When I am on shorter weekend trips I usually do not bring shoe trees with me, but if I go somewhere for a week or more I will usually bring shoe trees, assuming this is travel where I am arriving at one location and staying there.

-LR

 

[GBer]

Originally Posted by Viral

I have a pair of plastic trees I use for travel.............work great!

I thought part of the reason for using wood trees is to have them draw out moisture from the shoes?