What's the best way to travel with cigars?

Question

I dont want to bring my humidor, and dont have any "real" cigar travel cases. What's my best option? 3-day golf trip coming up.

Answer 1

If you have some priceless or important cigars that you absolutely need during the trip, then you can easily jury-rig a temporary humidor. Take a sealable box (tupperware, wood, or metal all work) and place a humidifying agent (I'd recommend either soaked wood, or a piece of rag soaked in warm water) inside of it, along with the cigars. If you use the rag, you may get a touch of mildew on the cigars, but that can just be brushed off, and won't affect the smoke quality at all.

Your best option though, assuming that you have a fairly standard cigar collection at home, is to just leave them at home. When you get to your hotel, ask the concierge if he can recommend some nice tobacconists in the area - you're really probably better off just buying a few stogies when you get there than trying to transport them across the country.

Plus, this way, you can see new tobacconists, and maybe get introduced to a brand of cigar that you're not yet familiar with.

Answer 2

I just found a solution to this dilemma on Monday night. I had a flight to Florida tuesday morning and was trying to figure a way I could bring my cigars down here without having them dry out like usual. So what I did was take an extra plastic humidifcation device I had lying around (you know the circular cheap plastic ones) charge it up with some distilled water and tossed it in a zip lock with my cigars. Well it is Friday and it has worked out quite well, all you have to do is let the humidity out once in awhile, but that is achieved just in opening the bag to grab a cigar.

Answer 3

Tupperware works great. If you have some cedar from a box of cigars or from the inside of some tubed cigars, throw those in there too. I used tupperware for months before I got a real humidor.

Answer 4

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What's the best way to travel with cigars?
I dont want to bring my humidor, and dont have any "real" cigar travel cases. What's my best option? 3-day golf trip coming up.

Answer 5

Depends, but generally no If you are using it as your primary humidor, you should put a few drops of distilled water in there. If you are using it as a travel-dor, than no - it is air and water tight so if your cigars are kept properly to begin with, you should be fine.

Answer 6

buy a cigar travel case.

Answer 7

Use a hard case like for eye glasses to put them in. The cases should be available from any local place that sells eye glasses.