7 tips to help you to spend a vacation without incident
Travels / / December 19, 2019
1. Learn the characteristics of the country in which the guide
Climate
If, instead of sightseeing, you will have to look for in a shoe store warmer or shorts shorter, nothing terrible will happen. But there is a way to avoid it - just in advance to see the weather forecast for your destination.
Remember that even in the warm season in the sea towns can be very cool at night. Look at the humidity: the higher it is, the more acute cold. At -2 ° C Oslo much cooler than -2 ° C in Moscow.
Life hacking: type in the name of the city in Instagram search and look at the actual Stories, how people dressed. About the set of things and you will need.
Laws
Somewhere you can not smoke in public places, or by throwing garbage bins, and in many Muslim countries severely punished, such as public consumption of alcohol. Take the time to explore the reviews from other travelers, ask around friends or even search the Internet for information about the laws of the country in which you are going.
customs
Aboriginal you offend some countries, showing a raised thumb, the other - to make a gesture of "OK", the third - killing during the toast. Remember that you are at a party and try to respect the customs of the local people. Know them better in advance, rather than when find yourself in front of a crowd of furious your behavior foreigners.
sanitary conditions
Going to Asia and Africa, think in advance where you will eat. Explore the reviews on travel sites and try to choose a place where the locals dine. Most likely, you will be wise enough not to drink water from the tap in the third world, but do not forget that from it is in catering establishments can make ice for cocktails - and this is another reason to carefully choose a cafe.
If you chose exotic destinations, find out what diseases thrive in your destination. For example, in African countries can be infected with malaria and cure it should start to take a week before departure. And enter the number of countries in South America and Africa in general is impossible without vaccination against yellow fever.
2. Make copies of documents
Here are the documents, without which it can not do:
- international passport;
- tickets;
- driver's license and international driver's license if you are going to drive the car on the trip;
- medical insurance;
- printed confirmation of housing reservations.
Make copies and store them separately from the originals, and scans copy in the phone memory and upload it to a cloud service (ie, Google Drive, Dropbox or "Yandex. Disk"). A color copy of the passport will help confirm the identity of the original in case of loss or even avoid such trouble. After all, if fitted, you can simply leave the document in the safe rooms.
3. take out insurance
If you are traveling to Europe, the choice you will not: insurance have to do to get a Schengen visa. But the opportunity to enter the country is not a reason not to issue it without insurance: the cost of emergency medical services is very high in many countries. Insurance can protect against unforeseen expenses for medical treatment, and even compensates for the damage, if the airline cancels a flight or lose your luggage.
In 2019, you can take out insurance for five minutes. Let's see how to do this on the example of insurance policy going abroad from the company "Rosgosstrakh".
In section "Travels"Choose a country, fill in your travel dates and click" Calculate. "
The insurance calculator fill in the remaining fields: are making a name and date of birth of the insured (in one policy can include up to four people), and note the additional items. If you plan to visit the water park, cycling or diving, you can select the option "Active Life". Also in the policy can include additional protection against the risks - which may come in handy if you have a chronic illness or you are pregnant. Again, press the "Calculate".
Next you need to choose one of three programs with a different set of options. To obtain a visa you can use any package.
Packages are different set of services and price.
After selecting a program, you can add additional risks policy: "Baggage" (the risk of loss of luggage), "Miserable case "," Trip cancellation "or" civil liability "(in case you have, for example, accidentally broke something hotel). Clicking on the prompt next to the names of the risks, you can see the insurance conditions and exclusions.
After this will make contact and go to the payment of insurance. You can do this card. After a few minutes, and policy documents coming via e-mail.
Before the trip policy can be photographed or printed, and the number of the dispatch center around the clock to save the contacts.
If something happens, it will be necessary to call the telephone number listed in the policy, called his number and explain the situation. Keep all payment documents, if after the bell had to pay something on their own, and not dispose of medical records with the advice of the doctors: they may also be necessary to compensate for spending on insurance.
4. Assemble a first aid kit
Insurance will pay the doctors in the case of serious health problems, but it's unlikely you'll turn to specialists due to scratches or slight poisoning. With the majority of small troubles you can do it yourself, but here is a list that can help you with this:
- Band-Aid;
- bandage;
- painkiller;
- remedy for allergies;
- remedy for indigestion;
- means of cramps;
- aspirin.
This is something that should be in any case. If you are planning a sea voyage, it will complete a first aid kit by means of motion sickness, and if the forest hike - insect repellent.
If you are taking any other medicines, to find out if there is no substance in their composition list potent. If so, then the drug will have to declare.
5. Prepare your smartphone
Again, a check-list, but now that must be installed on your phone before the trip.
- Cards. In order not to get lost, to have time to visit all the interesting sights and quickly find the hospital in case of trouble. Suitable as a standard Google or Apple Maps, and more suited for travel MAPS.ME or TripAdvisor.
- Interpreter. To be able to talk with people in a foreign country in an emergency. Suit «Google Translator" for iOS and Android, «Microsoft translator», iTranslate, Reverso.
- tracker flights. In order not to be late for the plane. fit FlightRadar24, SeatGuru, GateGuru.
It will also come in handy currency converters (XE Currency) For housing search application (Trivago, Booking.com, Airbnb) And services for travel planning in public transport (Wikiroutes, Rail Planner). If you go to an exotic country, are going to play sports or walk around the local ghetto, set React Mobile to iOS- or Android-devices - in case of trouble with this application panic button will automatically send out an SOS proxies in the messengers and complement its GPS-mark.
In a dangerous situation, the smartphone can save a life, so take care to always be in touch. Connect the pack to travel or buy a local SIM card (sometimes our operators wring terribly high prices for roaming), pre-install, and configure the appropriate messengers and bring your laptop battery.
6. Keep your money in different places
For example, put a few bills for small expenses in an easily accessible pocket fastened, bank cards and some more currency - hidden in the backpack department and the principal amount hide at the bottom of the bag.
The authors conducted a In59seconds blog study and found: a chance to return a lost purse will increase if attach a picture cute child. This, too, can take advantage of.
And be sure to take a trip map, which paid for the hotel reservation: it may be necessary to confirm the payment.
7. Test yourself on the check-list before leaving the house
Make sure you:
- According to the bank's departure (he can block your card due to suspicious activity away from home);
- We left a set of keys from the apartment to people you trust;
- memorized, printed or at least stored in the cloud important addresses and phone numbers of insurance companies, embassies, hotels, airports, and those who need to meet you;
- blocked water and gas at home;
- We took all the things that are difficult to prepare in advance: documents, chargers, toothbrush, keys.
To avoid trouble, almost always simple enough care. And if you still break a leg or terribly poisoned, an insurance policy, you at least do not go broke in the treatment.
Contents insurance
PJSC Insurance Company "Rosgosstrakh", the Bank of Russia licenses for implementation of insurance №0001 SL and SI number 0001, issued 06/06/2018, at perpetual.