What’s your best travel/vacation tip?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bring Dramamine. Use liberally.

lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Return on a Saturday so you don’t crash from airline travel stress straight back into work. Hold onto the vacation vibes one day longer, have a slow morning, take time to reflect, do laundry.

Pack a mini medical kit. No one wants to run out to get NyQuil or Children’s Motrin at midnight - and you won’t find these things many places abroad. You don’t want to figure out dosing of an unfamiliar med while traveling.

Travel when you are young even if you go into debt to do it. That 5 or 10k in credit card debt will be nothing to pay off when you are in your 40s, but you will never be this young, free and comfortable traveling on a budget again.

Don't go into debt to travel.

Agree. Terrible advice.

[Anonymous]

always pack a deck of cards ziploc bags, all the OTC meds, and if w kids a ball and balloons.

[Anonymous]

keep copies of all travel docs on your phone and in your email

[Anonymous]

A tip I learned on this forum: When traveling to Europe, book your first hotel/apartment/whatever in the first city starting the night before you arrive, so you can check in immediately upon arrival (assuming you take a red eye to Europe). Having to putz around for hours while you’re exhausted, waiting until 3 or 4 pm to check in, sucks.
Make sure everyone in your party uses the bathroom before getting into the passport control line, and maybe grab a bottled water on the way if you can. Last March in Rome, we waited well over an hour in line. In Paris this past April, the wait was over two hours!

[Anonymous]

Use Vaseline to prevent blisters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:always pack a deck of cards ziploc bags, all the OTC meds, and if w kids a ball and balloons.

What do use the Ziplocks for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh and be nice and charming if something doesn’t go your way. The old adage of attracting flies with honey. I’ve been upgraded numerous times simply by being kind to the desk agent at hotels or airlines

Yeah that's not a thing anymore with airlines.

Yeah, that hasn't been a thing since 1973.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:always pack a deck of cards ziploc bags, all the OTC meds, and if w kids a ball and balloons.

What do use the Ziplocks for?

NP, but anything and everything. Leftovers, toiletries, wet stuff, tiny stuff you don't want to lose, protecting items when it rains. I don't even go out locally without Ziploc bags!

[Anonymous]

Do not change to a different connecting flight when you get to the connection airport because there is less layover time. You will not see your luggage again, lol. This is probably obvious to most people but me.

Build in a rest day without much/anything scheduled if your trip is more than a week.

If you can afford it, fly biz/first on overnight flights, especially if you can't sleep sitting up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Return on a Saturday so you don’t crash from airline travel stress straight back into work. Hold onto the vacation vibes one day longer, have a slow morning, take time to reflect, do laundry.

Pack a mini medical kit. No one wants to run out to get NyQuil or Children’s Motrin at midnight - and you won’t find these things many places abroad. You don’t want to figure out dosing of an unfamiliar med while traveling.

Travel when you are young even if you go into debt to do it. That 5 or 10k in credit card debt will be nothing to pay off when you are in your 40s, but you will never be this young, free and comfortable traveling on a budget again.

That 5 or 10k will have snowballed into $25k with interest by then. Don’t ever go in to debt to travel.

+1

[Anonymous]

I always pack a mini first aid kit when we go away now. Different size Bandaids, Advil, Zyrtec, Benadryl cream, neosporin, tweezers, nail clippers and nail scissors ( if not flying or we are checking a bag) and Dramamine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:always pack a deck of cards ziploc bags, all the OTC meds, and if w kids a ball and balloons.

A ball? You are packing a freaking ball?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A tip I learned on this forum: When traveling to Europe, book your first hotel/apartment/whatever in the first city starting the night before you arrive, so you can check in immediately upon arrival (assuming you take a red eye to Europe). Having to putz around for hours while you’re exhausted, waiting until 3 or 4 pm to check in, sucks.
Make sure everyone in your party uses the bathroom before getting into the passport control line, and maybe grab a bottled water on the way if you can. Last March in Rome, we waited well over an hour in line. In Paris this past April, the wait was over two hours!

You better let them know what you are doing, or there is a good chance you will arrive and your reservation was canceled and they gave your room away when you didn't show up. Even when you do let them know what you are doing, this can happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:always pack a deck of cards ziploc bags, all the OTC meds, and if w kids a ball and balloons.

What do use the Ziplocks for?

NP, but anything and everything. Leftovers, toiletries, wet stuff, tiny stuff you don't want to lose, protecting items when it rains. I don't even go out locally without Ziploc bags!

FFS, let's try to use less single-use plastic, not more.