Top 10 Travel Tips - from Travellers
Travel tips from our customers. Additions welcomed!
- Book early and minimise changes to keep cost under control and check the latest travel advice for your destination before you make travel plans
- Take your passport as id regardless of the destination and make sure it has at least 6 months validity. Make two copies of your passport and related travel documents: take one with you in a separate place and leave one at home or office
- Pre-book your seats, print and keep the confirmation as online booking systems can fail
- Take out travel insurance every time and make two copies of your passport and related travel documents: take one with you in a separate place and leave one at home or office
- Never put your laptop in your hold luggage, even if you're not using it during your flight. Buy a light travel bag that holds a change of clothes, laptop, charger, phone, pen, paper and has a handle, shoulder straps
- Take your own Ethernet cable with you - plenty of hotels now have ports for broadband but either run out of cables or other guests have broken them. Carry a couple of USB memory sticks because half the time you won't be able to connect your laptop to whatever projection system you're using
- Move to the destination time zone as soon as you take off. Once there, live to that time zone immediately - even if this means going to sleep three hours sooner or later than you want to
- In strange cities, find out how best to get from the airport to your destination, the rough cost and the time it takes before you leave unless you are met
- The best translation book I ever heard of is called Point It - no words only pictures to point at, works great in places with non-Latin alphabet and is standard issue to UN peacekeepers. And there is only one phrase you need to learn in any language - 'receipt please'!
- If you aren't yet a Skype subscriber then think about becoming one. In some countries, using VoIP in the hotel lobby or a wi-fi zone can save you a small fortune in mobile phone roaming charges. Don't forget to pack your headset
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