Travel can be simultaneously both grasping, and irritating. When you gather in holiday, business trip or eat on an exchange of students can forget any trifle which, probably, will help you to save during long travel. Some of the given councils concern health and safety as the given questions can manage to you in the considerable sum. Well both other monetary secrets and cunnings which each tourist and the traveller should know. Health and safety questions
1. Do on two copies of all important documents.
Make on two copies of all important documents (credit cards, the passport, the driver's licence etc.). Leave one set of the house at the friend or members of a family, and the second complete set take with itself in road. When come to hotel, put all documents in the hotel safe. If go somewhere take with itself copies, instead of originals of documents. Take with yourself only that currency or credit cards with which you will pay off, Never it is impossible to exclude a loss or larceny variant. If do not trust safes in hotels it is necessary to you to buy a belt for money or still something similar (see point 20).
2. Try to put on accordingly.
Leave the national suits of the house, try to avoid in clothes of everything, that obviously gives out in you the foreigner and underlines your nationality. It will allow you to avoid confrontation. Put on conservatively not to be allocated from crowd. But at the same time it is not necessary to do so that at you on a forehead it has been written "tourist", differently become a target for thieves.
3. Will solve all questions on host country to a trip.
One of ways is the Internet where you can find a site, a forum or a blog devoted to the country to which you are going to go. Learn the basic customs of the country, simple phrases in local language, type "thanks", "hello" and "excuse".
4. Care of the health.
Do not forget to take with itself the medicines (if they at you are), but with it it is necessary to be cautious. Some countries forbid transportation practically all medicines (including the USA). For safety, carry with itself a copy of the instruction from the doctor.
5. Buy the road medical insurance.
Get the road insurance and include there indemnification for the postponed flights of planes, trains, their cancellations, luggage loss, etc.
6. Buy the medical insurance.
It is necessary to get the medical insurance. That you will spend all for it, probably, will save to you thousand dollars if you suddenly are ill or will suffer during travel. Expenses for health services or are worse than that, on a case of your death, can be considerable, therefore take care about native and do not force them to spend the means. Make copies of insurance documents and leave on house storage. Besides, make the power of attorney if during travel you begin not to make in a condition all.
And though last information, for certain also is not too important for you, but the data resulted in the report of research group Johns Hopkins Associates, can change your opinion. The majority of Americans, which for various reasons die during travel (heart attack, failures, murder, suicide), do it in the developed countries of Western Europe.
7. We continue to care of the property.
Get the corresponding insurance on available at you the equipment: cameras, field-glasses, laptops, etc. Laptops cause presently especial problems as customs services озабоченны that, whence they at you and that in them are.
8. Be reserved by necessary telephone numbers.
It is necessary to know phone numbers if necessary to call in your bank, for example. Be reserved also by telephone number of embassy in case you will lose the passport or if it will steal.
Unfortunately, in a case with embassy or consular service, sometimes there are difficult situations: you should confirm the citizenship that the necessary help has been rendered you. That is why it is important, that you have made copies of all basic documents before a trip.
9. Get the international telephone card and get a normal e-mail address.
Even in six months after the hurricane which has passed through the Bahamas, the unique tower of a mobile communication on islands remained non-working. The telephone card of a usual telephone line was unique way to phone from islands. Be convinced, that you have such card.
On the other hand, what for to call, if you have someone's electronic address? In many countries there is an Internet cafe where for the minimum payment you can use e-mail.
10. Plan the route to a trip.
If do not want, that about you spoke as about "the rough and uncivilized tourist", i.e. about such person who has opened a map of the city in crowd and has blocked all movement plan all route in advance. Familiarise with the airport, public transport, the city scheme, etc.
Financial questions
11. The finance in road and a spare credit card.
During travel try not to hold in pockets more than $300 in currency of the given country, and at itself to have no more than one credit and-or a debit card. But all the same, not bad to have a spare card in case you will lose the first or it will steal. Store it separately, in a reliable place.
12. Solve for itself, whether traveller's cheques are necessary to you.
Some feel comfortably with traveller's cheques. However recently ever less dealers accept such checks. Besides, the percent raised for cashing in of such checks above, than for use of credit cards. If all the same you have taken advantage of traveller's cheques be reserved by in advance telephone number and the additional information on the firm which has given out it. Necessarily leave one copy of checks of the house, and the second carry with itself on a trip, but separately from real checks.
13. Check up credit or debit cards before departure.
Check up an action expiration date, do not forget a card PIN-CODE.
14. Inform the bank which cards you plan to use about yours plans.
Do not forget to inform in the bank which cards you plan to use about your plans concerning travel. Some banks and the credit companies can forbid to use to you the credit cards, and even to freeze your accounts
15. Receive the information on a payment which undertakes during use credit or debit cards in host country.
By some cards the same percent, and on some acts in film the additional percent can be raised. If you know the given information will take advantage of cards only those companies which offer the least percent.
Besides, it is necessary to pay attention to the goods which you take out with yourselves from the country. Necessarily keep checks of such goods.
16. Think of getting a new credit card in case of a long trip.
If plan long travel it is necessary to find the most suitable credit card. Capitol One gives the best percent as take only 1 % which Visa and MasterCard raises in case of purchases. Besides, Discover does not take percent, and interest rate American Express depends on the one who has let out the given card. However you should know, that last two cards do not accept worldwide. In particular, cards Discover are absolutely useless in Europe.
17. Look for the organisation which is the partner of your bank in host country and think of getting a debit card.
If you have learnt in the bank about existence of such partner take an interest in its arrangement in the country where you go. Bank-partner use will help you to save at use of cash dispenses. If you use a cash dispense or do purchase by means of a credit card be convinced, that on it there is logo Visa, MasterCard, Cirrus or Plus as such cards are international.
18. Foreign cash dispenses and your debit card.
Cash dispenses abroad same, as at you at home. However foreign cash dispenses use a local exchange rate of currencies at converting. Use a credit or debit card with the least percent for transactions.
19. Think of use of preliminary paid debit cards.
Preliminary paid debit cards it is more safe usual as they are not connected with your bank account. Buy a card with that quantity of money which you consider necessary to take with yourself during travel. Having lost such card (or if it will steal) you will not lose all on the to the account as would be if the thief has got access to your usual debit card. However the percent raised by bank from such cards, is more. It usually includes percent for purchase, the international transfer, payment cancellation, etc. Besides, such card it is difficult to replace on a trip.
20. A belt for money.
Belt for money – an excellent find for the traveller. With it it is not necessary to worry about falling asleep in the plane, or about pilferers when you were lost in contemplation of local sight. One more variant is use of a small handbag on a neck where you can store all important documents, credit cards and the passport and to hide all it under a shirt.
Belts not so usual thing, therefore practise their carrying to a trip. Two councils: put all documents in a polyethylene package where the moisture (or can buy not soaking through belt) will not get. And the second, never try to get money from a belt in public places.
21. Study to be cautious.
One more council for your safety: not to lose the handbag, or the camera, always adhere it to a hand. If someone tries to snatch out it at you anything at it not to turn out. And in general, be always attentive in crowd, as this place for thieves and pickpockets. You do not leave the things without supervision in the homeland so why you should do it on a trip?
22. Try to avoid a dynamic course of growth of currencies (DCC).
Some dealers, seeing your confusion, can suggest to count to you the goods on the exchange rate. And though they try to go too far not too, cost of their goods changes very strongly, and the difference can reach 3-5 % in comparison with the local prices.
Can ask (or to learn in advance) the price in local currency. If the dealer refuses or says, that does not know as to translate on the local prices ask to call the manager or simply refuse purchase
23. Get currency of that country where you gather, before departure.
If were not in time in advance probably at the airport there is a branch of your bank. Means only to reach from the airport in hotel and, probably are necessary to you once to attempt. Simply usually students so hasten, that simply have not time to reach a cash dispense. And there are and more difficult situations: cash dispenses at the airport do not work, too late and all banks are closed, and to a following place where it is possible to exchange currency still very far. So it is better to make all in advance.
24. Avoid to use automatic machines for an exchange of money.
These devices are popular in Europe, and look also as well as usual cash dispenses. But instead of inserting there cards, you insert there money, and the device exchanges to you currency. It will seem such convenient, that to you to like them to use. However it is not necessary to be bought on such devices. In them strongly overestimated exchange rates are put usually in pawn, and sometimes even the payment for an exchange is raised.
25. Whenever possible use only cash.
It will be sometimes very difficult to you to find the seller who accepts credit cards. They pay percent for use of credit cards (some at all do not accept credit cards), and cash will go for all. Besides, you can find something at the street dealer, what to you very much to like, you will not bargain with it by means of a credit card?
Other questions
26. Rooms in hotel
For safety, try to take a room between the second and seventh floors. The majority of fire branches have no corresponding equipment to reach floors above the seventh. When lodge, attentively consider a uniform of attendants of hotel. You can always consider the hotel personnel before let in it inside.
27. The public transport will allow you to save.
The public transport is more safe, and in most cases the most simple and inexpensive way for travel, especially across Europe, Australia and other developed countries. Study system of transport of the country in which you gather, learn, whether there are tickets on all types of transport, or any seasonal actions are carried out.
If you often travel, likely know also other ways to save. Besides, some councils can be useful in one country and absolutely unnecessary in another. The best way to check up that you have understood from this article – to go to travel.
The most important thing that it is necessary to remember to the beginner: very well learn the country in which you gather. After all, despite your attempts to look in a local way as soon as you start talking all will understand, that you strange. But if you leave all negative moments of your trip in yourselves and all successively about it will not tell, your travel will be much more pleasant and safe.
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