Wallets & Card Holders
RFID-blocking passport wallets, a neck pouch and slim leather card holders for travel and every day.
Eight wallets, all with RFID blocking. For travel documents, the RFID Passport Holder keeps one passport, cards and papers together and blocks scanning across the whole wallet when closed. The Family Travel Wallet does the same for four passports and adds a wrist strap, and the Travel Neck Pouch sits flat under a shirt.
For everyday cards, the leather range scales by capacity. The Cruz Micro Sleeve holds up to six cards, the Beau and Finn sleeves add outer slots, the Noah Wallet fits six cards plus three more in an outer pocket, and the Blaise Card Holder takes 14 cards with notes and coins.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Do I need an RFID-blocking wallet?
It is a small, specific safeguard. An RFID pocket stops a contactless card or chipped passport being read at close range while it sits inside with the pocket closed. It does not protect a card you have taken out, and it does nothing about online card fraud, which is far more common. Useful, but not the main thing standing between you and card theft.
What is the difference between a travel wallet and a passport holder?
A passport holder is sized for one traveller: passport, boarding pass and a card or two. A travel wallet such as the Family Travel Wallet holds several passports plus everyone's boarding passes and documents in one place, which suits one person carrying for a group. The trade-off is that losing it loses everything at once.
Is a neck pouch safer than a wallet in a bag?
For transit days it usually is, because it stays against your body under clothing rather than in a bag that can be put down, taken or opened. It is less convenient for things you need repeatedly, so most people use one for passports and backup cards while keeping a day card somewhere easier to reach.
Travel wallets and card holders
Carry less, in the right place
The everyday wallet full of loyalty cards is the wrong thing to travel with. What you actually need on a trip is a passport and boarding pass in one place, a card or two to hand, and a backup card kept somewhere else entirely. This range splits along those lines.
- Documents: RFID Passport Holder for one traveller's passport, boarding pass and a card; RFID Protected Family Travel Wallet when you are carrying several passports and everyone's boarding passes.
- Worn under clothing: Travel Neck Pouch, for transit days when a bag is easier to lose than a pouch against your body.
- Everyday slim carry: Blaise Card Holder, Beau Card Sleeve, Cruz Micro Sleeve and the Finn Leather RFID Card Sleeve, from $18 to $42.
- A conventional wallet, slimmed down: Noah Wallet in vegetable-tanned full-grain leather, which marks and darkens with use.
What RFID blocking does and does not do
An RFID-blocking pocket shields contactless cards and chipped passports from being read at close range while they are inside it, with the pocket closed. It does nothing for a card that is out of the pocket, and it is not protection against your card details being stolen online, which is how card fraud overwhelmingly happens. It is a small, specific safeguard rather than a security system.
Split your money
The single most useful habit is keeping a backup card and some cash somewhere separate from your main wallet: a different bag, a hotel safe, a neck pouch. It costs nothing and turns a lost wallet from a trip-ending problem into an inconvenience.