Editorial
Why Trust Us
Most travel-gear roundups send you to the wrong power bank, the wrong tracker, and the wrong SIM for your actual phone and airline. We give you the exact rule and a clear verdict, never "check with your airline."
Testing Standards
Every product we recommend is judged against the number that actually decides it: the watt-hour rating that clears the 100 Wh cabin limit, the network that reports a lost bag back to you, the trip length where an eSIM beats a physical SIM. We read the returns reports, not the marketing copy.
When we name a pick, it is because it earned the space in a real bag on a real trip. When we say something is overhyped, we say so plainly, and we tell you who should skip it.
We update articles when a rule or a product changes. An "updated" date at the top of an article means we have re-checked the facts against current sources. It is not a timestamp on a minor copy edit.
Affiliate Disclosure
Some links in our articles are affiliate links. If you click through and buy something, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.
We disclose these relationships on every article they appear in. We never recommend something because it has an affiliate program. We recommend it because it is genuinely the right call for your setup, and if an affiliate link exists we will use it. The recommendation always comes first.
If there is no affiliate link available for something we recommend, we link to it anyway. The verdict is always independent of the commercial relationship.
Who We Are
Travelnology is run by Marcus Vane, an electronics engineer and former airport travel-retail buyer based in Lisbon. Marcus spent years watching travelers buy the wrong gear on the advice of glossy spec sheets, and he started this site to give the answer that is almost always knowable in advance.
He grew up in Sheffield, where his father, an electrician, taught him to interrogate a claim before trusting the label. His small Lisbon flat doubles as a gear-testing bench, with a rotating set of power banks, trackers, and routers on the desk and a 40-liter bag by the door.
Nothing here is recommended from a press release. If Marcus has not put a product through a real budget or long-haul trip, it does not get a verdict.