19 Tips and Hacks that Will Improve your Travelling Experience

Whether you are planning a family vacation or a girls’ trip, you can make the most of your time by implementing travelling documents hacks, packing hacks and long flight relaxation tips. The truth is that travelling can be a lot like work — especially when you’re trying to keep everything together during your journey. When planning for your next trip, remember these travel hacks so that everything goes smoothly while travelling.

Documents Hacks

• Always have a scanned copy of your passport stored in your email or cloud storage. This is very important, especially when you are in a new country and your passport is your only identity document. You might lose your passport and need to prove your identity.
• Before leaving for another country for a vacation, always save the consulate’s phone number and the hotel number and address you will be staying in your emails. Don’t forget to also write it on a piece of paper or a notebook, because sometimes your phone might get lost or unable to access WIFI. 
• Get A Pouch for all your documents that you will need at the airport, such as passport, visa and boarding passes.

Suitcases and Traveling Bags Hacks

• Buy easily identifiable luggage and prevent somebody else from accidentally mistaking your bag and taking it as their own. You can also spruce your bag with either a ribbon or Amazon’s Luggage Cover to easily identify your suitcase.
• If you want an organised suitcase with every item packed separately, let me introduce you to the Veken Packing Cubes found on Amazon. These packing cubes are a game changer, especially if you love packing everything neatly. They come in a set of six packing cubes in different sizes. With the packing cubes, you can separately organise your beauty products, accessories, pants, shirts and shoes. Packing in these packing cubes will also make it easy to unpack. 
• Sometimes while travelling on a budget and you booked a cheap ticket, the airplane can only allow you to bring one personal item that fits under the seat. In such a scenario, you can carry a BANGE Weekender Carry-on Backpack, which literally fits all of your personal items. It is a convertible travel backpack and will easily fit under your seat. 
• Another travelling saving hack, especially when you are not allowed to bring additional luggage and you ought to pay an extra luggage fee, just buy a plastic bag on your way to the airport which you can bring on the plane. I call it duty-free, which is allowed on planes. Make sure you buy something small and put it on top of the rest of your clothes or any other extra items that you want to carry. 
• Also, Some airplanes don’t normally weigh personal items; therefore, you can stack some of your clothes in your personal item. Things such as handbags and backpacks are categorised as personal items. 
• Nothing is more frustrating than losing your luggage while travelling. You don’t want to ruin your beautiful vacation just because you can’t find your suitcase and the airport has no idea where the luggage is. For such a case, I would highly recommend having a special GPS Luggage Tracker to help locate your suitcase. Pack the device with your luggage, then link it to your phone to easily track the luggage. Also, most of these GPS luggage trackers can last up to six days.
• Pack a Pouch for your cleaning wipes, hand sanitiser, lip gloss, contact lenses and other personal items you will need on the plane.

Long Flights Relaxation Tips

• Suppose you love nice views and want to get a nice rest while travelling, book the window seat. The window seat will offer you the best view while travelling. Also, you will not receive constant requests from your fellow travellers to move because they want to visit the bathroom. 
• If you are travelling with another person, try to book a window seat and an aisle seat. This is important because when someone wants to reserve a seat and find the two seats taken, they are unlikely to book the middle seat. In case someone books the middle seat, it will also be easy to exchange seats and not get caught up in the middle of two people that know each other. 
• Create a hammock to rest your feet. Carry a small blanket that can be easily tied under the folding table and create a small hammock for your legs. It will help you relax for a while when your legs are comfortably resting on the hammock.
• Inflatable Travel Pillow: Forget about the ordinary travel pillows and use the Inflatable Travel pillows, which will offer you comfort and nice sleep while travelling. They are designed in a comfortable 45°Angle; hence your head and neck will be perfectly protected as you lean forward to sleep.  They are also portable and can easily fit in your bag. When you want to use your inflatable pillow, just inflate it, and you’re good. The Amazon Offer comes with free earplugs and eye masks to help you enjoy your long flight.

• Afraid of Flights Turbulence: if you do not like flying and are probably terrified of turbulence, I would recommend you book the middle seats. These seats are a bit more stable; hence you won’t experience many bumpings and shaking during turbulence. Likewise, travel in the morning or late evening because, at this time, the weather is a bit calm with fewer storm winds, and you are unlikely to experience turbulence.

• When you order a special meal, you will be served before anyone. Sometimes, waiting for food can be tiresome on the plane, and why not order a special meal and get served first? Airplanes normally have special meal menus from vegan to halal. Just choose what you want, and you will be served faster.
• Don’t forget to carry your USB phone charger, a sweater, a good set of earphones or AirPods and compression socks to improve circulation.
• To prevent the effects of radiation while flying, I would recommend you carry your sunscreen, which will help with UV protection. 
• Another important hack to ensure you are comfortable while flying is to avoid carbonated drinks. Most of the time, when people fly, they tend to experience jet bloating and taking carbonated drinks will make it worse.