10 Tips How to Make Holiday Travel Easy | Solo Trekker
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10 Tips How to Make Holiday Travel Easy: Tip One:
Avoid checking a bag. With the number of travelers, you don’t want to spend part of the holidays on a scavenger hunt for a missing suitcase.
10 Tips How to Make Holiday Travel Easy: Tip Two:
Be aware that wrapped presents may not make it past security at airports.
10 Tips How to Make Holiday Travel Easy: Tip Three:
Before taking your favorite mincemeat pie, check to see if it can fly with you.
10 Tips How to Make Holiday Travel Easy: Tip Four:
Allow for weather and other delays this time of year even if you are headed to the tropics. If you are going to a special event like a destination wedding, plan to leave home 1-2 days early. With the crowd, come the potential for overbookings and reservation errors.
10 Tips How to Make Holiday Travel Easy: Tip Five:
Remember that during the holidays everything from flights to lodgings to special restaurant meals will be more expensive.
10 Tips How to Make Holiday Travel Easy: Tip Six:
The holidays are prime time for petty thieves and more serious contenders. Give special attention to electronics. Add pins or passwords to avoid having identity theft followed you for the next 12 months!
10 Tips How to Make Holiday Travel Easy: Tip Seven:
If you need a rental car, be sure to reserve ahead and find out where you will need to go to get it. I once circumnavigated Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport trying to find my rental car.
10 Tips How to Make Holiday Travel Easy: Tip Eight:
Don’t assume Christmas Day travel will be less crowded. I was surprised departing on a solo trip to Cambodia that the flight to Asia was completely filled on Dec.25 and Dec. 24 from Europe was even worse!
10 Tips How to Make Holiday Travel Easy: Tip Nine:
Be aware that vendors at your destination may be closed for the holidays. So if you are going abroad to see special sights bear this in mind. (I once arrived in Madrid the week of Easter and found many places were closed.)
10 Tips How to Make Holiday Travel Easy: Tip Ten:
If you have traditions for Hanukkah or Christmas and are on a tour, think ahead about how you can still have your own observance even on adventure travel. I once started Christmas Day swimming in the Amazon River hoping the piranhas were still fast asleep. I did relish the adventure but missed traditional Christmas carols. What worked for me the next year was celebrating a traditional Christmas Eve at home and heading to the airport to go abroad Christmas Day.
Just remember that the holidays are to be a celebration not a chore so even a “staycation” can be a festive respite from a too busy schedule.
