10 Essential Travel Hacks for a Successful Journey
Plan Ahead
Start planning your trip 2-3 months in advance. In most cases, you’ll get better prices on flight tickets and accommodation. If the route is cheap, buy all the tickets you can from Ukraine. Usually, tickets are non-refundable, which is a strong incentive not to cancel the trip.
Photograph Everything
Develop a habit of photographing any documents that come your way during the trip—receipts, tickets, boarding passes. Let them stay in your phone’s memory. If something happens to the originals (loss or theft), it’s better than nothing. You never know when it might come in handy.
Get Compensation
Few people know, but when you buy plane tickets, you guarantee yourself a comfortable flight. Unfortunately, flights are often canceled or delayed. If this happens to you, don’t be upset because you can get compensation of up to 600 euros, regardless of how much your ticket cost, even if you bought it for 30 euros on sale.
You will receive compensation if:
- You were not informed about the flight cancellation two weeks before departure;
- The cancellation was the airline’s fault;
- Your flight was operated from a European city or by a European airline.
Moreover, you can get a refund even if a similar situation happened to you three years ago, and you just found out about the possibility of compensation.
What do you need to do? Write to good lawyers who will help you easily get compensation. We recommend checking out the service MyAviaHelp.
Instagram – Find Everything Here
Find photo locations, the most aesthetic establishments, and where to eat national dishes. You can also find great photographers and various bloggers, like-minded people from your country.
Make Your Luggage Recognizable
Attach bright badges, ribbons, or stickers to it. This will help you quickly find your bags in the luggage compartment among dozens of identical ones. It will also be easier to describe and find things if they get lost.
Another travel hack – be sure to attach badges with your contact information to your luggage. If things get lost and then found, this will make it easier to contact you.
Clear Cookies for Cheaper Plane Tickets
Cookies are pieces of code that help websites track your actions and interests on the internet. Thus, flight ticket sales sites see which flights interest you the most and can inflate their prices. Therefore, always clear cookies in your browser settings (CTRL + F5) or visit such sites in “incognito mode” (CTRL + SHIFT + N).
Carry Maps with You
No, we don’t mean paper maps. That’s the past century. However, the maps.me app, which works without the internet, is very helpful. You don’t need to pay for expensive megabytes in roaming. It’s very convenient to mark the necessary points on the maps with flags and move from one to another according to the plan.
Flight Delays of More Than 3 Hours
We’ve already written about cancellations above, but you can easily get compensation even if your flight is simply delayed by more than three hours. You can get compensation from 250 to 600 euros, depending on the distance of the flight.
The rules for receiving compensation are similar to flight cancellations: the delay must be the airline’s fault, and the flight must be operated from a European city or by a European airline.
How to get compensation? Contact reliable lawyers who will 100% help you.
Booking Hotels and Apartments
Want to return to that wonderful hotel again? Make a reservation for next year. You might even get a discount. Be sure to ask about the amount withheld if you cancel the reservation.
We also recommend booking on Airbnb. You can get a $33 discount just for registering.
