Tips for tourists in 2021 do not lose their relevance. People are not born travelers. Useful and practical skills in this field come only with travel experience and with advice from other tourists. At first in traveling you make a lot of mistakes. But over time you gain experience, exchange useful tips with other tourists and collect your list of tricks, which you use later. Tourist experience comes after late transport, ignorance of the characteristics of the cultures of different countries, small and large other mistakes.
In this article, I share some useful travel tips. I hope that this information will help you avoid many unpleasant situations, and if something does happen to you – you will know the right thing to do. I have collected the best tips for travelers, what every tourist needs to know in order to get the most out of exciting adventures! After reading it, you will know how to save money and have a great time while traveling.
1. Google Maps
Prepare your itinerary by car beforehand. This way you will know how long the trip will take, where you will have time to stop, where to stop on the way, and where to have lunch. To begin with, enter the start and end path into the app to calculate the distance and time on route. Then add the places you want to visit. Take a closer look at the map – there may be many interesting places along the way. Leave time for spontaneous “I wonder what’s out there?” decisions.
Here are a few resources to help plan your itinerary: Via Michelin.com and Gogobot.com, Roadtrippers.com is good for planning a trip to the United States. By the way, use also national tourist sites of the country, for example, Visit Norway, Tourism in Germany. Many of them are translated into Russian. Learn more about interesting places you’ve traveled through or you’d like to visit. Get to know the world!
2. Book in Advance
If camping doesn’t suit you, or if you are vacationing as a family with children, who would still prefer to sleep in a safe and comfortable environment, then book hotels in advance. This will help save money on lodging and make sure that you are sure to rest after the road. This is especially true of popular places where free rooms are a real problem. A convenient and logical option is hotel booking services like Booking.com, Agoda.com, Hotellook.ru, or trivago.ru. There are hotel deals anywhere in the world, and you can get cash back on your purchase.
3. Take Your Time!
The main rule in a road trip is that the average speed is much more important than the maximum speed. Driving at high speed is tiring and exhausting, and the optimal speed is about 90 km/h. It’s important to understand that any “5 minutes” stop actually takes about 10 minutes. And if it is necessary to reduce the travel time, it is better to go to the toilet, for example, during the filling of the car, rather than to stop for this purpose.
And do not count on the average speed to be high. If there are a lot of villages on the way, the average speed is unlikely to be more than 70 km / h. It will be much easier if the driver is set up to comply with the rules of the road, and if you need to catch up to a certain time, will leave an hour and a half earlier.
4. Preparing the Car
I put this article a separate item, because the car that is not ready to travel, will not reach the next town. Get it checked out and serviced, so you can be sure everything is working properly and you don’t have to look for service stations in unfamiliar places. If you go to Europe, the car must be prepared for this, otherwise, there may be problems at the border. I advise reading in more detail how to prepare your car for a trip to Europe, what they may pick on the customs, what must be in the car necessarily, what documents to take on the car, what features of car travel in different countries.
Try to make as much room in the cabin as possible, let all your stuff go in the trunk. It is better to make an extra stop, get everything you need, stretch than to go surrounded by bags and packages. If the car has the ability to fold down an extra row of seats, take advantage of it. Make an ample supply of water and various snacks. Fruit, nuts, various healthy snacks are good, they will distract children from boredom for a while.
5. Be Local
Every cuisine is an explosion of imagination and gastronomic delights. Even sushi should be tried in Japan and pizza in Italy, although there are many pizzerias and sushi bars in Russia. Give local cafes and restaurants a chance to surprise you. Visit local supermarkets. Maybe they sell Duff beer or dragon eggs.
Don’t be afraid to buy lunch on the streets at stalls. For example, there’s a street food stall in Singapore that has a chef named Chan Hong Men. He got a Michelin star for his chicken in soy sauce with rice. There are lines at his place, though the portion is still $2. Other cities have similar stalls with amazing dishes. Just take a closer look, try it, and you won’t regret it.
That’s It!
Spontaneity is cool. Hot tours, throwing darts at the map: wherever you hit, that’s where we go. But in our stably comfortable reality, this rarely happens. Maybe it’s right, because your own safety, well-being, and comfort almost determine whether you like to travel or not. So before we go, we need to seriously think and think about all aspects of your trip, starting with where we go and who we take with us, and ending with how we put our luggage and what applications to download.
In fact, making the trip as comfortable as possible for everyone in the family is easy. Once you’ve prepared your car for a long trip, you can add a few kid-friendly options. And we’ve covered that today.