Top 10 Travel Hacks That Everyone Should Know

Vacations are supposed to be relaxing and tension-free. But booking flight tickets, packing can have you go insane. So to avoid losing your sanity and have a relaxing, and productive vacation, here are some travel hacks one must follow to avoid the stress that can hamper your mood and impede your travel experience. So let’s look at some cool travel hacks to make your vacation fun, relaxing, comfortable.

Here are some travel hacks one must follow:

•When you are booking your flight tickets, make sure you clear your cookies or can use “incognito window” if you are using Google Chrome. This is because many travel and airline sites can track your visits by installing cookies on your browsers due to which the prices you see are not the actual price but the raised ones. So to avoid paying extra unnecessary, go with private browsing.

• While packing, don’t just dump your clothes in your suitcase. This way you will find it difficult to carry all your things in a single suitcase. The best way to pack your clothes is to roll them over. Putting your clothes in a pile in the suitcase will take a lot of space. While rolled over clothes takes less space, this way you can keep a few more extra pairs of clothes if you wish or anything else you wish to carry.

• Safeguard your passport, identification cards. Make sure you have a scanned copy of your passport, identification cards, tickets, and itinerary in your email as a backup. You never know when you will be needing them. Apart from this, always have an extra copy of your passport and identification cards copies, tickets and itinerary saved somewhere else in your phone too, so that you have an offline backup too.

•Never carry a full water bottle. Make sure you carry with yourself an empty bottle and not a full one. If it is a full one, you have to pay for it and at the security checking, they can confiscate these bottles too. So bring an empty one and after security check fill it up.

•Always mark your luggage as fragile. This way it will be handled with utmost care. Also, they put fragile baggage at the top, so when you are at the baggage claim area, you will find your luggage coming first.

•Don’t use money converter at the airport because you have to pay some fees to convert your money. Best is to use the local ATMs to get local currency using your debit or credit cards to get the money. Make sure that your debit or credit card company is authorized in the country you are going to.

•If you love traveling and usually don’t stay in a place for too long, then this one is for you. Only take out those things which are of utmost importance. Unpacking your whole bag is not necessary if you are staying only for 2-3 days, because packing again everything can give you a headache.

•When you pack your shoes, make sure you stuff your socks in them. This way not only you save some space but also the shape of your shoe remains intact. Always carry a poly bag with your shoes. You can keep your dirty shoes in them and then pack it in your luggage. This way your clothes and other items don’t get dirtied up.

•Always carry a dummy wallet with you. This way you can confuse the pickpocket and save your real stuff.

• Use beeswax to waterproof your things. When you are traveling, no matter how much prepared you are, you don’t know when the rain god will start raining his blessings on us. So be prepared. You can rub beeswax on your backpack, converse and even your jackets to make them waterproof.