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The Best Travel Tips

June 16, 2022

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Roberta Cole

Travel savviness isn’t achieved just like that. It’s an entire process that’s understood through foolish mistakes, missed buses, cultural unawareness, and small errors! But, as you learn more and more, traveling becomes a lot easier and more exciting. If you’re looking for a way to speed up that learning process and avoid stupid mistakes, you’ve landed at the right place! Today, we have put together a list of some of the best travel tips that’ll help you travel efficiently and safely. These tips are going to help you figure out how to plan fun adventures, how to have fun on the road, and save money.

1. Go For Hotels That Offer Free Cancellations and Refunds

As we all know, most of the time, plans do not really work out the way we expect them to. While that's totally normal, it can sometimes be a little heavy on the pocket. In such situations, you might have to cancel your hotel bookings at the last moment. So, the wise thing to do is to book hotels from websites that offer free cancellations, such as Airbnb or bookings.com. An even better thing would be to find hotels that refund your amounts as well.

Helena Lopes/Pexels | These hacks have proven to be extremely useful during times when plans get changed unexpectedly

2. Plan Your Trip At Least 4 To 6 Weeks In Advance

Last-minute trips are surely the best. But, if you have decided to take a trip to a place where you’d be required to have a visa, bear in mind that applications for visas take at least 4 weeks to process. This is why it would be wise to plan things beforehand. It’s also the same with certain tourist sites, such as the Statue of Liberty in New York and the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam.

Christian Domingues/Pexels | These places require at least a few weeks' advance booking.

3. Search For Previous Travelers’ Experiences On Facebook

This is a great and efficient way to discover locations and experiences. Most places have a Facebook group dedicated only for people to talk about their past experiences during their visit. This can turn out to be a very useful life hack; people will tell you what's wise to bring along with you to the places and what not to.