Nancy D. Brown is a lover of all things related to travel. With What A Trip, she has combined her passion for travel with her professional writing career. 
Kuru Shoes Travel Gear Review
Travel shoes for wide feet
Walking Shoes for Wide Feet
For a traveler, nothing beats a pair of comfortable walking shoes that are easy to pack and suitable for hiking. If you also happen to have wide feet, I have found a shoe that I am happy to recommend.
100% Free Shoe Exchange Policy
Fellow travel blogger, Donna Hull of My Itchy Travel Feet had recommended Kuru womens “Chicane” style shoe. I have a wide foot, so I was worried the anatomical footwear would not fit. I requested the mens “Chicane” shoe in size 7.5 and they fit perfect.
So ladies, don’t let a wide foot scare you off. Kuru Footwear comes in men’s and women’s shoe styles and they carry a 100% warranty, along with an easy shoe exchange policy. Kuru understands that trying to get the right size shoe, when buying online, can be difficult. Kuru makes it easy. They pay standard shipping, both ways, on all shoe exchanges.
The Chicane men’s shoes have a suggested retail price of $99.97 and come in several colors. I selected the olive color. The travel shoe performed well while rock climbing in Carmel’s Point Lobos State Reserve.
Kuru Shoes Travel Gear Review
Kuru – Consumer Empowered Sustainability
The folks at Kuru believe in giving back. With each pair of Kuru shoes purchased, the company allows the buyer to select which social/environmental cause a portion of your purchase will support. You may follow Kuru on Twitter @Kuru and follow Travel Writer Nancy D. Brown on Twitter, too.
Kuru Footwear supplied me with these shoes for a travel gear for review.
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Tags: shoes, Travel, walking shoe
I was wearing mine this week! They are good for cold weather.
@CanCan
I do like my Kuru shoes. Looking forward to trying other styles.
Just walked the 3.5 miles down to my Montana mailbox and back in my Kuru shoes. They are good looking, as well as comfortable. Thanks for linking back to my Kuru review.
Thanks for the info on Kuru Shoes! I keep hearing good things about these shoes.
@Sonya
I’m glad you found the Kuru shoe review helpful. They are quality footwear.
I recently purchased a pair of Kuru shoes size 13 . . . tried them out in my bedroom (hardwood floor) for 5 minutes and found them too big . . . sent them back to the company to exchange for a size 12 and they told me they couldn’t exchange them because they were worn . . . what a rip-off . . . watch out for these guys!
@Peter
I’m sorry you had a poor customer service experience with your Kuru shoes.
If you are active on Twitter, you might want to try reaching to them via this micro-messaging site. http://twitter.com/#!/kuru_footwear
@Peter, @Nancy. I had a similar incident with Kuru. From my experience their shoes run large and they will not admit it. I, too, have a nearly new pair of Kuru shoes that do not fit properly sitting in my closet. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend Kuru.
@Lucy
Thank you for your comment. As I have a wide foot, I obviously didn’t have a problem with the Kuru shoe running large. I am sorry you did not have a positive experience with Kuru shoes. I hope the folks at Kuru shoes become aware of this problem.
Nancy, thanks for this write-up. You have four pairs of Kuru, that’s Awesome! I wanted to chime in on the comments from those disappointed that their expectations were not met:
@Peter Thompson. I found your order information and you returned your shoes and we issued a refund to your card. So, I’m not sure why you wrote that we wouldn’t return the shoes when in fact we did.
@Lucy. Because you didn’t include your last name in your comment, I’m unable to track down your specific issue. However, we do offer free exchanges. If you found the shoes ran large, you should have contacted us prior to wearing them. (I presume since you said your shoes are “nearly new” that means you wore them out and about instead of exchanging them.)
We try our best to help customers understand how our sizing runs. Sometimes, some of our shoes fit differently from each other. To help, we include our own fit notes along with displaying fit feedback from every customer who writes a review. This isn’t a perfect process, but that’s why we offer FREE exchanges for those times where the size isn’t quite right.
For additional help, feel free to contact us at customers@kurufootwear.com
Thanks,
Rob
KURU Guru
@Rob
Thank you for stopping by and leaving your Kuru customer service contact information.
As I said, I am very happy with my Kuru footwear – although I’m not sure why you think I have four pairs of Kuru – I wish!!
Hello.
I would like to know if there is an outlet in South Africa.I live in Durban which is in Kwa Zulu Natal.
Thank you
Tyrone
@Tyrone
You’ll need to contact the shoe manufacturer to answer your question. I am a travel writer and Kuru sent me the shoes to review.