Excellent Travel Tips

Travel Tips

Before Leaving

• Leave an itinerary, including contact numbers, with family, friends and coworkers
• Make three copies of all important documents you are taking (driver’s license, passport, credit cards, traveler’s checks)
• Leave one copy at home, keep one in your briefcase or purse, and one in your luggage
• Ensure someone checks on your residence while you're gone, checking mail, removing newspapers, caring for animals, etc
• Remember to leave and arrival early

At the Airport

• Stay in secure populated parts of the airport
• Avoid ATMs or terminals not in use
• Be aware of your surroundings and look alert, don't get distracted

In the Security Line:

• Don’t let anyone cut in front of you in line
• Retrieve belongings as soon as you get through security
• Remember: Always keep your belongings on/with you.

Upon Arrival

At the Hotel:

• Ask the receptionist to write your room number down instead of saying it aloud
• Request a duplicate key to the room
• If you feel uncomfortable with a person in an elevator get off at another floor

In the City:

• Don’t tell people it’s your first time to the city
• Have a map and know where you are and how to get back to your hotel