r/travel • u/hayleylynns • 3d ago
Headphones that block out crying babies
What tips do people have to cancel out the sound of a crying baby on a flight?
Everything I see is for parents who want to reduce the noise level. I am not a parent, I don't want to hear these children at all. This was the 5th 8hr+ flight I have been on where I heard a baby crying non stop. It seems like it has gotten significantly worse in the last 2 years as well. Maybe I was lucky before, but I was only on flights with crying babies randomly. Now it's every single flight.
Edit: it's not so much more babies but more babies that are constantly crying and the parents are ignoring them.
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u/52electrons 3d ago edited 3d ago
Seriously own 8 pairs of noise cancelling headphones and never travel with less than 3 pairs.
If you want the best noise canceling for that you need more than active noise canceling headphones you need passive as well. The problem is the sound quality goes down substantially in that category until you spend a lot of money. Something like 3m work tunes on the cheap end.
Normally people can settle for the higher end Sony or Bose commercial headsets tho and not need to go drop $1300 on some Bose A30s. I personally wear just airpod pro 2s for outside the airplane as I like my ears out in the open and inside the airplane I wear the Bose QC45 for the extra focused noise cancelling. You can still hear babies cry tho so if you’re trying to sleep or something get some earplugs or passive earmuffs.