During the vacation, inexperienced tourists often make mistakes, which then spoil the overall impression of the trip. A professional tourist named Fiona, based on her own experience named the top 3 most annoying of them in a video published on her Tiktok account.
“I’ve been through some tough trials, so you won’t have to endure them. Here are 3 things that I would never start doing if I made a living traveling,” the traveler began her story.
Mistake #1: Changing money at the airport
Instead, the expert urged tourists to use a card without a commission for foreign transactions or withdraw money from ATMs upon arrival. But if you need to exchange money at the airport, you should choose points of departure, not the arrival, where exchange rates can often be lower and therefore disadvantageous for the tourist.
“If you plan to exchange money, you can order and exchange any currency at the bank, their rates are also good,” the tourist added to the traveler’s advice in the comments.
Mistake #2: drinking tap water abroad.
The tap water there is dangerous because it has an unknown origin. For the same reason, the specialist also advised us to be careful with the use of ice cubes in drinks.
In the comments to the video post, tourists appreciated the advice of an experienced traveler and talked about their miserable experience drinking water from an unverified source. “I was in Angola and I accidentally swallowed water and I had diarrhea for about a week,” “I got food poisoning from the ice when I was in Morocco,” they complained.
However, many European tourists disagreed, saying that their tap water is perfectly safe to drink. “In most places, you can drink tap water. Just Google whether it’s safe where you’re going,” recommended one of the tourists.
Mistake #3: Planning every second of the trip.
If an illness or other force majeure circumstances unexpectedly wedge into the busy schedule, no one will return the advance payment left for the excursions. The girl told how during a trip to Bali, she had to miss several trips and places that she had booked in advance.