TravelHose - Collapsible CPAP Hose

After reading many reviews highlighting convenience AND noise reduction, I decided to go for it and I am SO GLAD I did. In the 5 plus years of using CPAP, this is the best travel hose for I've used, I'm just so sad I didn't find it until this year!! Between camping and traveling, I'm away from my home setup 60-80 nights a year and I've tried all the short, slim, mini hoses out there. The innovation in this hose is that it is built like a small clothes dryer hose and collapses on a storage stick. Yeah, like other say, it takes you one time to figure it out and put it back on, but nothing major or difficult and what you get is a sturdy, uncrushable, unfoldable, stick barely 10 inches! It slides right in the travel bag and I don't worry about it anymore. Also, I haven't seen or had any reason to question that opening/closing this over and over adds any extra wear or would make this wear out any faster than any other hose I've had. That includes camping, where this hose is inside my sleeping bag with me getting rolled over and slept on! Now for the noise and traveling. If you've got a 2nd smaller travel CPAP machine, you'll know that they aren't as quiet as your normal full sized home machine - there just isn't the room in them for the insulation. They do what they can with the housing, but most of the noise comes directly from the fan and out the port into the hose. The baffles and gadgets for those travel machines try to block or redirect some of the sound but don't waste your money on them, I've not found a noticeable difference. I never would have thought that the hose was a major player in the noise transmission but it is!. This hose, because it has a flexible material around a coil wire (remember like a clothes dryer hose) it just doesn't transmit the sound and vibration up the hose like the solid corrugated hoses. Now nothing is perfect, but this makes enough of a noticeable difference for me to take the time do write this review!! If you travel, just get it, you won't regret it!!!

Bought this to reduce the CPAP hose bulk. A little pricey but worth saving space. Once you figure out how to open it and extract the hose, it works good. Hose material is a thin clear plastic that relies on an internal metal spring to provide structure. Slept with it for a few nights and it held up, ie did not tear. Packs down to 12". Standard CPAP connectors on both ends.

I prefer to carry on my CPAP and related supplies in case my luggage gets lost (has happened twice to me so far). I'd been getting by with the normal slimline tube, and it was working but it added bulk to my limited carryon space. This item is amazing - I wish I'd found this a long tie ago! It's very compact and takes up 1/8th the space of a normal hose. It doesn't seem to be any louder (or quieter) than a normal hose with my travel setup. The first time putting it back on its spool was a little challenging, but mostly because I was afraid of damaging it. My only concern with this travel hose is one of durability. It seems like fairly thin plastic that would develop a hole - but to its credit I've used it on 5 trips so far and it's held up remarkably well. Time will tell of durability, but so far I'm very happy with my purchase.

Oh, I wish I could say that this thing was as great as it was for one trip. I used it on a 3 week trip to Europe, it was fine and I liked the way it collapsed so I could go carry-on only. I went on another trip 2 months later and the friction fit end won't stay on the cpap machine now. I had to rig up rubber bands to keep it from popping off when I turned on the machine. I called the company I got it from here on Amazon, Patient Sleep Supplies, and the customer service guy said it was past 30 days, so oh well.... I tried to go to the manufacturer's website but it does not exist anymore apparently. I don't recommend you buy this for these reasons. Purchased in the middle of Feb, used it in Mar without issues, tried to use it again in May but nope.

This is a unique design that I hoped would be good for travel. It has some pros and cons, but for me it didnt work. It's heavier than a regular hose, and while it does compress to a 10" ish length, the outer shell makes plenty of "crinkle" noise (as described in another review) that is heard whenever you move in bed. But I found the bigger noise issue is at the cpap unit itself, not at the mask end. As you may know, mini travel cpaps make more noise than larger nightstand (home) units...some of the noise is at the machine, but also at the mask exhaust vent (sometimes called the "Darth Vader" effect). Strangely, this hose makes almost no exhaust noise at the mask, but rather a marked increase of machine "whooshing" sound during breathing. I did my test drives on the Resmed Airmini and older Transcend 3 travel cpaps, it happened on both units. I tried putting the cpap machine in a nightstand drawer to dampen the noise but it didnt work. HME filter had no effect. It's just a loud hose when moving and/or breathing. This hose is certainly unique, and it's not a bad product or idea, but the trade-offs of the design and results just didnt work for me.

I bought this as an accessory to use with my Z2 travel cpap. Saves tons of space in my luggage. Easy to set up and put away. Just a couple of cons… 1) It is noisier than a regular tube, not just from the normal airflow noise, but it crinkles if you roll around when you sleep. Both are reduced with a the addition of a soft cover 2) a little more difficult to clean, but not a deal breaker. 3) and this is the weird one… TSA stops me every single time and pulls my bag aside for secondary inspection. Not sure what they think they’re looking at when they see it on the X-ray screen, but it flags for inspection every single time at every airport I’ve been to since I got it. I’ve started putting in the outside mesh side pocket of my backpack now, they still pull it but the process goes quicker.

Good concept to conserve space because the hose usually is so unweildly. Bot this is difficult to get back into the storage tube.

This is an excellent way to carry a very long CPAP hose without taking up space in my carry-on bag. Having a long hose is critical when traveling because you often need to place your CPAP on the floor next to the bed because there is no bedside table. This hose is 6 ft long but takes up the same space in my bag as a 10 inch piece of traditional hose. After a few cleanings, it became difficult to get the house back onto the travel spindle. A couple if quick shots of food grade silicone on the spindle and in the hose and it worked like new. I have abused this product on several trips including an African safari and it still works like the day I bought it. I have considered removing the sitting tabs that hold the hose onto the spindle just to make it a little quieter when you take it out and put it away. Don't hesitate to add this to your travel CPAP rig. Update: I did find one pinhole in the tubing while washing it. It doesn't affect the function. I break up a denture tab and put it in the hose and add water to sterilize it. I have abused this hose and I think the silicone spray may have weakened it. I am purchasing another. This is a great product.