Travel mistakes

I always over pack. It doesn't matter if I go for a week or two or just for a weekend, it seems that I always take so much more than I need to. Then I buy too many souvenirs and I have no room for them in my already over packed suitcase. I try not to plan on doing too much. In fact, I set aside a day with no plans, nothing to do but relax. That way, if I find something else that I want to do, I have a day to do it in.

I have not made any of those mistakes as I have always opted for package tours where they take care of the nitty gritty and even give us a check list of what we need to take along. The only mistake I made was to carry with me a hangbag which had several sections. I decided to put each item in these separate sections least realising I will not remember which item has been put in which section. I had a hard time, for exmple to pull out my travel documents. So the moment I returned to the hotel I pulled out everything and put in one section - not the best solution but better than having several sections and not remembering what has been put where!

I was used to flying from the airports to the south of London and to its west side. There are two airports north of London which I did not leave enough time to get to. I had to wait ages on London underground and then arrived too late for my train up to to one of those airports. I arrived so late I had no time to get Italian money. As soon as I checked in for my flight I had to board the plane to Sardinia. I had the shock of my life when I found there wasn't place to exchange money at the airport. I missed the bus to my town that I booked accommodation in whilst I exchange enough money to take a bus with another traveler. I had to get a bus to the city and arriving there the bank's door kept closing on me. I found out I had to put my bags into a locker before it would let me in. When I was 17 years old I bought a backpack at a jumble sale. I took it to Finland and then around Europe with me. It was awfully uncomfortable for me. I learned to get a good quality backpack. So by age 18 years old I bought a much better brand new backpack. A few times on my travels I have over packed and taken too heavy stuff on my travels. Last year I learned keep all essential stuff in my hand luggage when flying. This includes my disabled son's catheters. Going out to Colombia our luggage was delayed and we had missed connections. Our luggage wasn't there when we arrived and it was a strange feeling leaving the airport with just hand luggage. Luckily some of it arrived but some other bits of it were lost.

Hi Porco, how are you recently? It is good to hear you are having the chance to travel quite a number of nice and interesting places when you are still young. As for me, most of the time, i travel locally. I seldom travel to oversea countries. But in future, i plan to travel to your beautiful country and the other European countries as well. Most of my travel is, over packing my luggage. So, in the end, i will need to buy another extra luggage to bring back my souvenirs and presents. That's why, nowadays whenever i want to go traveling to another new place, i will bring along another extra fold-able bag, in case i will need it.

I once booked a hotel in Hawaii and forgot to read the review on the hotel(or for the matter of that there are 2 separate parts to the hotel) and when we arrived and checked in we were shocked to see the placed and went right away to checkout and find a new place but the hotel was so sweet they checked me in to another better hotel section for free. The service was great and I have learned my lesson.

porcospino we do not travel much. occasionally when we travel -- sometimes I have forgotten the important medicines and we buy them in the new place. so far we have not missed baggage. for my relatives it has happened - two bags did not reach the destination and she had to manage with the only other dress she was having in her hand bag for two days. much depends on luck whatever we may plan what God has destined for us is not known.

I don't travel much, but my dad traveled to Amsterdam once and was pick pocketed for five thousand dollars and his wallet while on a train. He never traveled with money(cash) again. He always used travelers checks after that!

I tend to always over pack my suitcase, as it then becomes 2 or 3 more. A big mistake I made when over packing was losing the large, red package I had packed for the holidays. Yes, you guessed it, THE GIFTS! Of course, I was very happy to see my 3 large suitcases trailing down the belt, but when the box of gifts seemed to be missing, I told myself, Just wait and they will be here shortly. Well, shortly turned into 45 minutes, and I was beyond upset at that point . Having to shop again for gifts was not on my agenda for that day, but I somehow fit it in anyway. Another common mistake I made was forgetting to purchase calming meds for my dogs before we boarded the plan with them for the first time in over three years. I actually had to reschedule my flight, and it became a four day, unwanted vacation stay at a local Denver hotel until another flight to my destination became available.