Your Vacation Planning Check list:
Your Documents:
Take Your very Personal Items like:
Things to remember before you left your home for vacation:
Some precautions to be taken:
- Check the validity date of your passport at least 2 months before your vacation
- Your Medical insurance,Travel insurance to cover the duration of your vacation
- Your Hotel reservations, travel reservations, airplane tickets.
- Essential currency domestic or foreign, keep some change, traveler's checks, credit cards domestic or international.
- Informative booklets, Maps, ( use Google maps )
Take Your very Personal Items like:
- Travel bag,Suitcases
- Clothes, inner wears,socks ,caps,coats, sweaters.
- Take Gum boots,umbrella or raincoat, plastic bags to protect from rains in rainy season.
- Toiletries, cosmetics, shaving kit, deodorant, shampoo, tooth brush,
- Take your contact lens preparations
- Camera, batteries, recharger, voltage converter, torch, travel alarm clock, hair drier , swimming suit, towels, sun protection cream ( Torch should be compact, well focused & should cover long distance so you can see surrounding things very clearly. )
- Sleeping bag, backpack
- Cell phone and charger
- Take a travel power adapter of appropriate voltage when you travel internationally.For example European electrical outlets provide 220 volts electrical power & most American appliances requires 110 volts. So Always verify the voltage settings before plugging in the device.
- See, if any immunization & vaccination is required.
- First Aid Kit consisting : aspirin or other analgesic, decongestant,cold/sinus medication, Pain relief spray, mosquito repellent, anti-diarrhea medicine, any special medications if any required .
- Food supplements, Dry fruits, fruits, Ready to eat items preferably our home made.
Things to remember before you left your home for vacation:
- Turn off your fridge's thermostat .
- Do not keep such food in refrigerator that will spoil if you are gone for several days.
- For the time being stop your daily newspaper and mail.
- Tell your neighbors whom you have good relations that you are going for vacation so they can keep any eye on your home.
- If you are maintaining garden or plants, pet animals then tell somebody to water your garden or plants and to look after your pets.
Some precautions to be taken:
- Pay kind attention towards travel advisory issued by govt.
- Place your important things like money, credit card in a wallet that you will be always with you.
- Keep close watch on your cash, credit cards.
- When traveling, always stay alert & be aware of your surroundings to avoid any unpleasant incidents like theft, pick pocketing.. .
- Do not travel with many credit cards.
- Place a tag on your luggage showing your name, address, and contact phone number.
- Affix distinctive stickers or any other signs to your luggage so that you can identify it easily.