Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have personally "backpacked" all over the world on several different continents and have over a year of travel time logged. A clothes line is a good idea to have for when you need to dry clothes in your hotel/hostel/camping. Here are my issues with this product. 1. It SMELLS! strongly of latex. Think condoms or surgical gloves. I suspect that if left close to cloth items in your pack that it would give your clothes and thus you a latexy smell. 2. It's too large wrapped up. This is mainly caused by the fact that it is three strands woven together vs. one, which is promoted as a way to hang clothes "without clothes pins" in reality you can simply drape your clothes over a line. When drying indoors they won't blow away, so why use clothes pins anyways? 3. The Velcro loop ends don't seem like an effective way of attaching the line to objects. Too bulky, and simple hooks would have worked better. 4. When stretched out to "7 feet" (Note, on the actual product it only claims a 6 foot capacity) it feels dangerous. Picture a giant rubber band stretched taught, ready to snap, or at minimum, attempting to pull apart whatever the chord ends are attached to. 5. This is just a personal annoyance, which for me amplifies all of this product's defects. It's too gimmicky with the whole "Rick Steve's Travel Gear BS" As if Rick Steve's is constantly hand washing his laundry while traveling deep in foreign countries! Lol Alright, so here is what I DO recommend. It's called "550 Chord". If you don't know what this is, just search for it here on Amazon. Here's how 550 chord blasts away this product for this use. 1. It's much cheaper. You can get 50' for about $8 here on Amazon. 2. It DOESN'T smell!! 3. It's much stronger, the "550" stands for five hundred and fifty pounds of tensile strength. 4. You can get it in any color imaginable so it can match the rest of your gear. 5. It's lighter and takes up less space per foot! 6. It's easy to tie and knot, so you don't need hooks or silly Velcro loops to attach your clothes line ends to things found in a hotel room. 7. It isn't "stretchy" so it doesn't threaten to recoil back and mess up whatever you've attached the ends to. 8. And probably best of all there are HUNDREDS of other uses that 550 chord can be utilized for. Just google it. So upon receipt and inspection of this product I went through the return process with Amazon which was amazingly simple and easy (as is usual with Amazon). They even gave me an instant refund to an Amazon gift card, I'm sure you can imagine what I'll be purchasing with the money! :-)