Anonymous
05/25/2025 19:21
Subject: Re:What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
Pack these items
- a quick dry face cloth
- headphones
- ear plugs
- slippers
- a quick dry face cloth
- headphones
- ear plugs
- slippers
Anonymous
05/25/2025 19:07
Subject: What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
It's not worth schlepping halfway across the city just to go to one bakery or restaurant when there's one that is at least 90% as good nearby.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 17:36
Subject: What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
Anonymous wrote:Bring those electrolyte packs and make everyone have one after a day at the beach. If everybody’s well hydrated they are less likely to melt down at dinner. Yes this includes the grown ups.
Yes! I think these packs help so much after the beach and just flights in general. We also used them in Breckenridge and really felt like it helped with altitude sickness.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 17:17
Subject: What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
Anonymous wrote:Bring those electrolyte packs and make everyone have one after a day at the beach. If everybody’s well hydrated they are less likely to melt down at dinner. Yes this includes the grown ups.
Alternately, you can add a pinch of salt to water
Anonymous
05/25/2025 16:54
Subject: What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
Anonymous wrote:Don't go to Disneyworld over Thanksgiving.
Or Christmas
Anonymous
05/25/2025 16:51
Subject: What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
Bring those electrolyte packs and make everyone have one after a day at the beach. If everybody’s well hydrated they are less likely to melt down at dinner. Yes this includes the grown ups.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 16:39
Subject: Re:What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
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.
+1 If you have to go into debt for something, make it for something that is an emergency and necessary (like your roof needs immediate replacement or your car dies). If you have never owned a home or a car, you probably don't know what can happen (and does happen). Travel is nice, but totally a want. There are also plenty of nice vacations you can have that don't involve tons of money.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 14:10
Subject: Re:What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
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.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 14:08
Subject: Re:What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
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.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 12:39
Subject: Re:What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
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.
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.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 12:37
Subject: What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
If going to a vacation rental where you plan to cook, bring aluminum foil. You can use it to line pans for a sheet pan dinner, and you won’t have to wash it (as much, sometimes yes). You can use the foil to wrap sandwiches for the beach/lunch on the go. You can use it to cover bowls of leftovers.
Also, cheap clothespin make excellent cheap chip clips.
Also, cheap clothespin make excellent cheap chip clips.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 12:25
Subject: What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
Anonymous wrote:I've got two:
1. Never travel abroad without immodium. Here's looking at you, Costa Rica.
2. Just take the trip. Stop waiting for the perfect time of year, or when you have enough money to do it in luxury or whatever is holding you back. For us, it's just going and taking whichever kids can join us instead of trying to line up the schedules of five young adult kids. Just go.
This is good advice. But carry immodium everywhere you travel, even domestically. You never know.
And also if you want to travel and can figure out a way to do it, just do it. You never know what tomorrow brings. There are enough regrets in life without making this one, too.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 11:48
Subject: What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
Don't use packing cubes and you don't need to plan the "perfect" trip. It will never be perfect.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 11:42
Subject: What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
If you're beach-bound, put your bathing suit in your personal item. Sometimes you're forced to gate-check your planned carryon, which creates the chance for loss, theft, or damage. Knowing you can get off the plane and into your suit helps vacation mode kick in immediately.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 11:17
Subject: What’s your best travel/vacation tip?
Avoid late afternoon summer flights if possible, especially if they involve connections--thunderstorms wreak havoc.
Always have a second pair of shoes, even if it's just a 1 night trip. I have had multiple occasions where something happened with a shoe (got wet, strap broke, blisters, etc).
If multiple people are traveling and you're checking more than 1 bag, split everyone's stuff across the bags. If a bag gets lost, no one will be completely out of luck (and second the advice to always have important stuff and some extra clothes in your carryon).
Always have a second pair of shoes, even if it's just a 1 night trip. I have had multiple occasions where something happened with a shoe (got wet, strap broke, blisters, etc).
If multiple people are traveling and you're checking more than 1 bag, split everyone's stuff across the bags. If a bag gets lost, no one will be completely out of luck (and second the advice to always have important stuff and some extra clothes in your carryon).