8 Travel Hacks & Must-Haves

There’s no time for guilty conscience when travelling. Remember that passenger that took off his shoes during an 8-hour flight, and slept on your shoulder? It’s a jungle out there. So, put your goodwill aside and mark your luggage as fragile. It will be handled differently and it will be loaded last in the plane, thus being the first to show up in luggage claim. Just destroy this after reading, ok?

We all know that you won’t be attending the Opera night in Vienna (if you are, congratulations, you’re a lucky Human Being) so instead of folding your clothes when packing, try and roll those polka dotted shorts and white socks. Using this trick, you’ll end up fitting 3x more clothes in the same cheap bag. Then you can spend that week in the Caribbean wearing the same t-shirt over and over.

Ok, we don’t mean to forge documents by scanning someone’s Passport and glue the photo you took against your room wall. By scanning your documents, you are safekeeping a copy of vital items that may keep you from ending your vacation on a small, dark prison in Nepal. Just take pictures of your documents and mail them to yourself. After that, save them as pdf on your phone. If nothing works, you can always trade your phone for a forged passport in that same prison.

So you made it to the destination. The plane landed safely, everyone clapped and you fought your way through the hundreds of tourists trying to leave Economy class at the same time. Now you need “dinero” to pay for those beautiful fridge magnets that will cost you half the vacation budget. Choose the airport ATM’s to withdraw local currency. Fees are always lower than the ones charged by exchange offices and that one-eyed man standing outside Arrivals area.

Although the title may seem to imply something like trying to mingle with those beautiful men and women that graciously flew you to Paradise, it’s actually not that. Airports can be quite confusing and finding your way out may become your greatest adventure of the entire trip. One way to quickly and effectively navigate through luggage claim, customs and suit-up men with boards saying “Mr. Chu” is to follow the cabin crew. They’ve certainly been at that airport dozens of times and are rushing to the exit. Just keep a safe distance, ok? Nothing creepy.

This one is quite simple. Don’t waste your first day abroad trying to unpack everything and organizing clothes by color, gradient, shape, day of the week, etc. Just take out your basic objects, like the toothbrush, toothpaste and the cologne that will be responsible for all the mosquito bites. You’ll thank us on the last day, when this tip prevented you from missing the flight back to reality.