Everyone is passionate about traveling, well, most of us, but if you are a reader of this blog, we take it for granted that you are a travel lover. But there are always mistakes you make when planning your trip.
You can travel from nearby destinations or a few days to real adventures. Today we are going to focus more on adventurous trips, that is to say trips to other countries or continents in which there are many times that we make a series of mistakes that are not fatal for our trip but they can have an impact in one way or another to make it better in many ways.
Here are 6 mistakes we make when traveling.
- PLAN THE TRIP TO THE MILLIMETER . .
After all, having your trip planned is not a bad thing, i.e. you can plan the days you are going to be in one city or another and even what to see or the main places where you can eat. In this case we refer to the extreme of organization, as we believe that it tires physically and mentally. It is not good to have planned how long your visits to each point should last. We believe that it is better to be free and let yourself go and create an adventure in which we do not know what is the development and much less the end. Can you imagine watching a movie if you already know the ending? We propose you to meet people, discover new places, walk until you get lost and create your own story. Everything planned generates stress to fulfill it as planned.
- DO NOT TAKE A BACKPACK.
When we travel to cities in our country or to other nearby destinations, we are not very used to taking backpacks with us. Note, these statements are in general terms. We should take a backpack with us, mainly because it is possible that when we get up we leave our lodging to visit the city and we do not return until the evening or until we are really tired. Depending on the season, the backpack can be used to carry or store warm clothes, as well as to carry important objects, such as cameras, maps, city guides and even the star object: a bottle of water or an external battery. Carrying everything in the same place is more comfortable and helps to have what we need.
- A big mistake that we make in PUT EVERYTHING IN THE SAME SUITCASE.
Can you imagine if the airline loses your suitcase? It is essential to think about this and lost luggage is not an uncommon occurrence. Having a carry-on with the essentials sometimes becomes vital. For example, underwear, something warm, cell phone charger and everything you consider important to have in case this tragedy happens. Don't let your trip be ruined by this!
- NOT TO CHANGE THE CURRENCY IN OUR COUNTRY.
This is almost never done, but it is true that it is much more profitable for our pocket to change money in our country, since it has less commissions than in the destination country. A big mistake is to arrive in the country and change money at the airport, either to take a cab, subway, bus or buy a snack ... The most expensive rate of currency exchange is usually at the airport. In this link we tell you some tricks to save money if your trip is in our city: Madrid.
- DO NOT READ OR BELONG TO ANY TRAVEL COMMUNITY ON THE INTERNET..
Nowadays, on the internet there are communities, forums and interesting blogs to plan our trip. It can help us a lot, we can save money and even visit and/or eat in less touristic and more local places in the area. The communities in social networks are basic, in them you can ask any questions about your trip, the weather in a particular city, where to sleep in X or even meet people from the same country or city! If you are the adventurous type, we recommend you to access these large communities. An example of these groups can be "Backpackers in Thailand".
- BOOK THE ACCOMMODATION FROM A THIRD PARTY PLATFORM.
We have already talked about this topic on several occasions. And we answer with a question: Why is it that when we want to rent or buy a property we try to avoid real estate agencies as much as possible because of the commissions they take, but not when it comes to making reservations in hotels and tourist apartments? As a general rule these establishments as well as Roisa have a series of advantages with the direct reservations from our website compared to those made from a third party online platform.
We hope you have found it interesting and above all practical when organizing your trip. And above all we hope you enjoy it to the fullest and that you have many more trips to make. You know, there are always mistakes you make when planning your trip, so keep this post in mind!