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Tips for Safe and Secure Travel
Travel Tips: Accommodations | Air | Auto | Cruise | Health | International | Kids | Pets | Security | Travel Light
Travel abroad can be no different than travel at home. Know where you are going and stay away from areas known for trouble. State Department Travel Warnings issues information sheets for every country with information on health conditions, unusual currency or entry requirements, public health problems, and locations of closest US consulate for 204 countries.
Keep a low profile; avoid flashy dress, bags, jewelry, and loud conversations. Here are a few travel security tips to help you along your way.
We hope these tips were helpful and we welome any suggestions you may have to help make your next vacation safer.
Keep a low profile; avoid flashy dress, bags, jewelry, and loud conversations. Here are a few travel security tips to help you along your way.
Travel Safety Do's and Don't
- - Don't travel with more valuables than you absolutely need.
- - Do protect important documents such as passports, boarding passes and credit cards.
- - Don't flaunt what you have in public.
- - Do blend in with the culture.
- - Don't take more than one major credit card on the trip.
- - Do make a copy or write down credit card info and notify bank you will be using it outside the country.
- - Don't tag your personal info on belongings outside for everyone to see.
- - Do identify your items with contact info out of public viewing.
Copies - Copies - Copies
- - Make photocopies of all important travel document that you have. Driver's License, itinerary, passport, credit card etc. Give one set to a travel companion and keep one set on you, separate from the originals. This is in case your originals are lost or stolen. It is good to share these copies with someone at home as well who may need to know where you are.
- - We suggest to have a printed itinerary copy of your trip. This should include phone numbers and addresses of your airlines, lodging, rental cars and cruise to name a few. This will allow you to make contacts for shuttle transfers, missed connections or late arrivals. When you book your trip through Conlon Travel we provide this service FREE of charge. You may also want to prepare a list of essential phone numbers such as emergency contacts.
Final Security Travel Tips
- - Keep your luggage near you whenever you are en route.
- - Divide your cash so if lost you don't lose everything.
- - Count your bags when moving, including the small carry on.
- - Pay attention when going through security checks such as an airport.
- - Keep money and credit cards in front pockets or strapped under clothing.
- - Consider purchasing trip insurance to cover emergency cancellations, lost luggage and supplemental health coverage.
We hope these tips were helpful and we welome any suggestions you may have to help make your next vacation safer.
Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.