Have A Great Trip With These Wonderful Tips
Stepping outside your comfort zone is something that is a prerequisite for a successful travel experience. Although, it’s not always easy to prepare ahead of time for the inevitable differences between your ordinary world and the one you will be entering, a few tips will help make the transition both easy and enjoyable.
If you really do not like packing, have a toiletry bag ready. Put all your needed bathroom items in it and just keep it prepared for travel. This way you can can cut down on time spent packing.
When traveling, avoid eating “traditional” foods that support cruelty to animals. You can have an authentic travel experience without violating your principles. If you believe it is wrong to eat endangered species, beasts of burden, companion animals, or meat altogether, make your preferences known before your trip, and request the foods you need to have an enjoyable experience.
To cut down on packing time, don’t unpack if you’ll be staying in your hotel room a week or less. Instead, use your suitcase as if it was a dresser drawer. This will make packing to go to your next destination as easy as zipping up your suitcase and heading out the door.
Before leaving home tie a small, colorful ribbon on the handle of our luggage. This will help differentiate it from all the other suitcases out there of the same color. Any time you can save at the baggage carousel is well worth the time it takes to tie a ribbon on your suitcase. Just make sure that you tie it in such a way that it will not snag.
Melt hotel ice to have filtered water in your morning coffee. Instead of using the tap water, which may not be the best tasting, fill your ice bucket and allow it to melt overnight. When you wake up in the morning you will be able to brew fresh coffee with decent tasting filtered water.
If you’re going on a trip to visit family, one way to make sure everyone will have a place to sleep is to bring along a number of inflatable vinyl air mattresses as well as an electric pump. These mattresses have improved greatly in quality over the years and the price is quite reasonable. Pumps can be hooked up to your car’s cigarette lighter or into an AC outlet. It is well worth the minimal cost to be sure that everyone has a bed to sleep in when you arrive.
When traveling by air, always make a mental note of where your closest exit row is located. Count the number of rows you must walk in order to reach it. In the event of an emergency you will avoid some of the chaos if you know where you’re going and can get there easily in a dimly lit environment.
Now that you’ve gotten a few tips for making your travel experience a success, you can go forward with confidence. Apply these time-honored tricks of the trade and pass them on to those who may be accompanying you on the journey. Everyone will benefit from being more informed and aware.
