Travel Tips

[abacus]

Following on from my tip in this thread
adaptor plugs - Hong Kong and China

What are your best travel tips?

Mine are :

ALWAYS take a 4 point power board and a 1 metre extension cord. Makes life in hotel rooms easier when you don't have to find multiple outlets for your gadgets (Laptop, Ipod, phone etc)

I have a headphone jack to RCA lead that lives in my laptop bag. You plug the headphone into the Ipod and the RCA jacks go into the AV in sockets on in room tv's. Voila! Music without headphones

I take a door stop to wedge under the INSIDE for my hotel room door. (I have my door rattled in the middle of the night, so a door wedge is another layer of protection.

So what are yours?
(Can you tell I have spent WAAAAY to much time on the road in the past

Cheers
Sue

[seocourse]

I did backpacking for 4 years in the middle east and Asia...
after 4 years I learned that the most amazing 2 words in traveling are:

McDonalds Bathrooms

Don't know why... but in the middle of Cairo or in dirty Jerusalem... Mcdonald's bathrooms are always Clean.

[Samot]

Just came back from vanuatu, no one told us how much the bus was suppose to be.

Ended up being 150 Vatu per person to anywhere, but we would pay twice that each time lol

[yourvirtualboard]

Had to smile at this post - back during my corporate life I travelled a lot (some years 375 hours flying time alone).

As most was air travel - learnt to travel really light.

My list
a universal adapter
one change of basic clothes in carry on (lost luggage a few times)
Imodium (life saver at times)
ear plugs
lubricating eye drops
something to read

Also @ Gabriel - I agree about McDonalds and it says a lot about good systems if you can go almost anywhere and find similar standards.

[Tim Davies]

'Roll' your clothes up instead of folding and packing them. You'll have twice as much space available to you.

Of course, this would cause an issue with the weight of your case. I fill out the empty space with my pillow from home! Nothing better!

Ive done a lot of travel to China in my time and the beds there are ridiculously hard. The pillow is my saving grace.

[travelmaster]

Hi everyone,

I just saw this post and although not the most current since I am in the travel business I thought I'd throw my two cents worth of tips, mainly relating to preparations. They are all based on experiences both personal and from our clients.

These days almost all travel documents are what we in the industry call
"e-dox" or electronic tickets. Best to email them to your own email. In other words have a copy of every ticket, voucher, itinerary, in your own email inbox so if all your papers are lost you can reprint them as long as you can get access to a comuter and the net of course.

Make a copy of your passport and keep one in EVERY piece of luggage as well as send one to your email.

Although very tempting do not book services via multiple websites, providers etc (would you buy a car by buying separate parts from many different dealers bit by bit and put together ?). In travel a lot can go wrong - just look at what happened at Sydney airport a week ago. Thousands of people were stranded. Sure, it can happen to any airline but if you made a SEPARATE booking on a connecting flight your connection will not wait or "care" why you did not make it. It is a very common situation in Europe - "low cost carriers" cancell flights at last moment.

Pre-book as much as you can if you are on a "tight" schedule. Yes, you will pay more upfront but you will save money in the long run.

And finally - engage a good travel agent and trust them. It's in their interest that you:
a) have a great holiday
b) come bact to book another holiday
c) nothing goes wrong

rgds