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A updated phone with an e-sim and proper global NFC support, if you can buy a Japanese iPhone, got a 16 plus for ~400 new recently. I still like andriod, but the amount of time savings and non bullshit to deal with specifically in SEA is astounding. Coupled with the 20/mo google fi plan for keeping my US number = invaluable.

>no need to lug around a camera for good shots unless I know specifically where I am going I want something good
>land at the airport, data picks up instantly no stopping to find some overpriced SIM
>all bands supported no wonky speed changes between areas
>google fi lets me take calls/texts from my PC as a backup
>use my old droid phone as a backup/work phone I leave at my hotel with banking info and other apps in a lost phone situation I don't shit myself on what to do

Other things I've found
>Anytime fitness
Worth getting, many US health insurance things will often give you a discount making it 25-30/mo. Great for if you're in a cheaper place, their showers are often great too sometimes pays for itself depending if utilities get charged.
>3rd party sites
Take the booking #, login to manage your booking, swap the contact email+phone, manage it like it was your own flight.
>Rubber bands are better than vacuum bags
>multivitamin can not be under estimated

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>>2895238
>>2895549
You got lucky. There are plenty of times they will stop everything and charge you if you didn't pay for baggage. Seen it a few times, granted mostly was spirit/frontier but still a thing. Enjoy paying double at the gate for checked bags

>>2893918
There are tons of hacks that exist, the bigger problem with hacks is that they are often very situational and require you to lower your standards/be flexible.

Like, want extra leg room? Be first at the counter to checkin volunteer for exit row, if you're built they will often move you free. Especially if white and in Asia.
Want to have flights paid for more? Sit close to the gate, be first to opt into any overbooking.
Airline cards are usually worth it, just remember to keep the balance at 0 each month. You can double up on rewards by booking CC with sites like hotels.com for extra points while getting CC points.
Third-leg "skip" is still viable, you just need to book third party and not have checked bags.
If you want to eat cheaper go to supermarkets 1hr before closing or 30 minutes after opening for mark downs.
Hostel private rooms usually mog hotels if on a budget and you're not comfortable with airbnb
Those dryer laundry sheets that are used to enhance smell on clothes are great ways to make your luggage not smell like ass when traveling
Have a basic itinerary ready to avoid any CBP officers asking you what dumbshit you plan to do
If you're USA, Chime is invaluable to travel giving you near 1:1 conversion rates with no foreign fees. Schwab is okay too, gives back ATM fees, but chime has so much more to offer especially with their app(I get 5% back from anything that is flagged as fast food services).
Duffle bag w/ wheels that can be used as a carry on or roller suitcase is GOAT.
Places like AirAsia use to have a year pass you paid like 500 for and only had to pay tax


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Not sure if travel hacks per say but things that made my travel indefinitely better are:
-smartwatch/fitness band, helps me keep track of time (especially at bars for last trains) and backup wakeup
-noise cancelling over the ear headphones required for travel
-travel organizers for luggage are very useful, at least use ziplock bags
-whatever you do get new shoes+gel inserts worth every penny
-as stated above upgrade your phone too
-password organizer is worth every penny
-get some kind of pen, I have no idea why but every time I need a pen I can't find one and it sucks
-blackout mask for your eyes
-get a wallet with some strap to secure to your persons
-hotels.com offers a lot of "reserve now pay later" deals which are GOAT if you have to provide an address/confirmation of lodging but want to stay somewhere cheaper

>>2895882
use a ziploc bag as your wallet. it holds everything and is waterproof

>>2895088
Its so painfully obvious also, and yet we all keep falling for the bait
the board needs a real janny, at least 200kg in weight...to clean things up

>>2895088
>/pol/ /pol/ /pol/
If anything it's fucking sharty and libshits who've wrecked the board. You're not allowed to have any discussion about anywhere except western europe because some tranny will get mad. And at the same time you're meant to seethe over western europe because it's filled with colonizers. I say I love China and I will get brigaded. I say I hate Europe and I get trannies calling me /pol/.

>>2895510
You're posting here with trannies and sharts on your mind all day. You've got a weird ass fetish, faggot.

>>2895519
>Be obnoxious tranny faggot
>Get called an obnoxious tranny faggot
>Post this: >>2895519
Hurr durr durr why did /pol/ turn you into a eunuch?

>>2894998
Go traveling you underfed spoon sorter

>>2894950
lol he said it in a jamacian accent and an em dash, based

>>2894947
Don't fall for one of those women. They are among the most beautiful in the world but their families and brothers and other suitors are ultra retarded cavemen. The juice isnt worth the squeeze.

If you want to meet on the downlow then have your own private apartment. Forget about bringing a decent girl to your hotel. Its a lot more conservative than other parts of Africa.

Also whatever you do, dont make fun of their retarded ethiopian orthodox larp religion. They take it very seriously.

>>2894947
They're about to go to war with Eritrea again so get a refund while you still can.

>>2895740
>The juice isnt worth the squeeze.
what about the squirt bredrin?

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>>2895059
One thing I will recommend in Croatia though is visiting the Gorski Kotar area (picrel), which is actually really gorgeous and almost untouched by foreign tourists. We passed through there and it was quite beautiful, lots of tiny villages in idyllic alpine scenery with lakes and mountains. We stayed for a little while in a town called Tršće, one of several such small villages in the region, and I have to say it was quite enjoyable.

>>2888751
No, there's literally nothing there anymore, it's just a generic resort country for the rich now, if you get to a nice hotel complex owned by Arabs you never have to get out of it. And the poor get endless sweaty masses of people and Chinese souvenirs and minced meat patties and Patagonian squids. That's literally the entire experience. Zero culture, nothing to offer to anyone who wants any actual Europe. Go to Poland or Czechia or Hungary if you're not obsessed with sea, and if you are just go to either France or Italy if you are rich or to some shitty SEA third world if you're poor.

>>2889286
>(especially the ones womanning a service counter in a business)
Those are all Thai now.

>>2895697
akshually croatian they're from nepal

>>2895716
No, that's the delivery drivers and "physical workers" (who just stand there and do nothing). There are no women from Nepal, just men. Women = SEA.

>>2895327
They found out I was a member of ISIS.

>>2895101
Americans make me do this when I enter their shithole so it's a fair game.

>>2895114
They don't hold them accountable, though. Its not for thirdies, its to keep track of their own people better. Collecting everyone's biometric data is just a smoke screen. They don't actually use it to stop brownoids from fucking their shitty countries up.

>>2895559
If they did you'd get $10 million and citizenship so long as you accused them of being racist first.

>>2895677
Your meds, schizo.

>>2894199
bump

>>2894243
SD also has surprisingly good Italian food

Not like New York or Chicago good, but probably the best on the West Coast.

>>2894199
Fuck off we are full i grew up in luecadia on the last dirt road west of i5 you faggots destroyed it and i will never forgive you

>>2894243
>>2894269
Fuck both of you and the carpet bagaer your addressing

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>>2894262
The city as a whole is worse culturally because of the huge military presence. You've got part of the population only there for a few years as a marine or sailor so its population is inflated for its cultural power.

You see this in a more extreme sense in Norfolk Virginia. Largest naval base in the world and the huge amounts of industry to support that are there but nothing is going on except traffic and strip clubs. San Diego is better off but its still noticeable.

>>2897180
Youtube. You were never gonna learn shit on DL. That app is for disgusting fat walmart shoppers.

>>2897281
>implying walmart shoppers are even interested in learning other languages, let alone travel

>>2897281
>You were never gonna learn shit on DL
Meh it worked enough for a week earlier this year, just wanted something more polished
>youtube
Not what I asked for

>>2897554
Yes but no sex
People rent fake girlfriends to take home for Chinese new year so their families stop trying to make them get married

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Thoughts?

>>2893953
small menus, locally made food, made from scratch, not fine dining or prix fixe, just creative and inventive and made intentionally not a giant menu of pre-frozen goyslop

>>2889448
bump

>>2893391
Spoken like someone who's never had Burritos de Nalgas Putos. Don't knock it until you try it.

>>2895614
NTA but kindly Fuck off dude, I just got back from japan whilst on holiday I had mouthgasms every fucking bite of 711 and Family Mart food because it was and is yummy AND tastey AND healthy.

I wish I could just live there and wasn't cucked to shit by US laws and trump fucking shit up. America is a food wasteland where even ordering a burger now is 30 dollars, look it up on uber eats I just did probably the same on doordash. Shit's mental

>>2895634
Boy, I'll bet you're fun at parties. Once your medications kick in, you should look up what "burritos de nalgas putos" means, then maybe see what that was a reply to.

I wish you could live overseas too.

You're asking a board of like-minded people to sell you on Africa. Don't even bother. Just go back to talking about monkey pussy from Thailand and the Philippines.

I got interested in the regions inhabited by the chocolate-faces by reading books about them; if you don't like to read then there's probably no appeal.
I've traveled to west africa many, many times. The natural beauty is of a type impossible to find elsewhere, and I can't overstate how friendly the people are. If you're going to drag ass through an impoverished jungle, you're better off doing it somewhere people will invite you for dinner (rare in SEA, unheard of in LatAm). I also like the old-world feel.
It's also allowed for you to leave some mystery in the world, it's OK if you never travel there OP.

>>2895610
I've only been to beginner Africa (South Africa btw) so I'm not an expert on this, but as someone who's into archeological wonders & scenic desert scenes, I'm interested in the areas where the Sahara begins. Ennedi, Dogon, Ghardaia, Timbuktu, etc. Too bad that these places are either 1) going to murder me, or 2) too expensive to explore.
>but how about muh safaris
Nah fuck that. Too fucking expensive for an impoverished continent. A friend went on a safari tour in Tanzania & stayed at different 5 star resorts. All the staff kept asking for tips despite already paying a fortune & rerouting the jeep if they weren't tipped well. They would also stop at shady locations where they saw local militia & bandits.
>I should note that I don't like black people.
Then North Africa is perfect for you since they also hate darkies

>>2891612
There's no point trying hamburgers anywhere outside America. That's like being mexican and ordering burritos when you travel. It's pointless. At best you will be disappointed

>>2891118
brazillian bbq is a gimmick. why not give me all my food at once, instead of having me wait for some faggot to come around with a stick and cut it on my plate. waiting around for the guy carrying the stick with the meat you want is a gimmick. i'd much prefer argentina parrilla

>>2895497
Some of the best burgers I've had were in Argentina.

If you ever go to BA, look for a place called "Burger Joint" near Plaza Serrano. There was another good one actually looking out onto the park but they've apparently closed.

>>2895513
>waiting around for the guy carrying the stick with the meat you want is a gimmick
If you just want a certain cut of meat you can order that or go to a restaurant that specializes in that, you're the one that chose to go to a place thats main selling point is serving a variety

America seethe
Can not imagine good food from brasil so cheap
Enjoy burger of 15 dollars

>>2889403
just do what everyone else does and go to Bourton on the Water and buy the local sweets and take pictures of yourself standing on the bridge and so on
you'll probably have to barge your way through a few busloads of chinese tourists to get to the popular spots though

Go to Jeremy Clarkson's farm shop. Go to Jeremy Clarkson's pub. Go to Kaleb Cooper's butcher shop. Day finished.

>>2889403
There is nothing special there, you're better off visiting any other south English village which will have exactly the same feel but with fewer tourists. Just look around the map for any AONB and pick a village, double check with street view and have the place to yourself.

>>2889403
check out blenheim palace, it has tons of trails around it too which were great. you can get locked out at night though and stuck in the park which happened to me

>>2894877
>just do garbage things that are connected to garbage people

>>2894203
>They're not even that much cheaper than flying most of the time.
They're kind of expensive. I don't know about the relative price compared to airline tickets since I don't take them for ridiculously long-distance travel, but:
> they ONLY exist because of the no-fly list and the thousands of crackheads who couldn't make it through airport security.
that's not quite true. They also have routes that go through places where there is no nearby major airport. I used to fly in to Nashville and take a Greyhound for five hours to get to my aunt's place. If I wanted to fly direct to there, I'd have had to charter something and maybe parachute in.

>>2894376
>BBC audiobook
how do you know it's a giant nigger dick when you're only hearing the action?

>>2894364
YO what this shit mang?

>>2894441
he's one of those douchebags that will argue forever rather than concede anything on here

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Never hear about people getting shot or stabbed on the plane, on the Greyhound or train it happens multiple times a year
And for the price of a Greyhound consider renting a car, I use turo

bampin

>>2875664
>forgoing a ten minute walk for any reason at all
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>>2875664
Walking is good for you, loser

>>2894392
>>2894342
Its 108 heat index with poor air quality in tashkent this week walking isn't healthy

bamp

>>2895417
What, going to those locations? If you've been to the UK you've basically seen every Irish city sans Galway, and if you've been to Switzerland you've already seen that. Italy's coastline has way better cities than Croatia from scale alone, to say nothing of the art, history, actually good transport links and proximity to amusements. Oslo and Stockholm are great places and ones I'd like to return to. But I can't imagine what you'd do with 8 days even outside them unless you're going camping for a while. Its not a waste going to any of these places, but spending your entire holiday allowance on them? Really?

>>2895419
Its not THAT harsh. Lets hear your take, then.

>>2895420
I’ve been to Italy twice
I haven’t been to UK and have little interest in it except Scotland, so I’d choose Ireland over that

It’s one of 2 three week trips for the year, with the other being Asia, done in February.

Last year I went to Budapest, Vienna, krakow, Munich, Venice, Belgium and people shit on that, but it was great outside extremely overrated Venice. Everyone is either “ that’s too long bro for one place” or “that’s too many places bro”. All incoherent shut ins who probably don’t even travel.

>>2895421
yeah people have different philosophies for travel. personally i'm a slow traveler and always stay the max I'm allowed to stay

>>2895421
Fair enough in that case, that is a LOT of holiday allowance, very jealous. That being said if you have little interest in the UK, avoid east Ireland for the reasons mentioned before. What part or aspect of Scotland interests you?

>Last year I went to Budapest, Vienna, krakow, Munich, Venice, Belgium and people shit on that
People shit on everything here. Its a good itinerary, wouldn't spend more than 2-3 days basing in each place outside Krakow but still. Venice is nice, its the overtourism that kills it.Where in Belgium did you go? What were your favourite things to see and do on that trip?

>>2895425
>Slow traveller
Since seeing some video on the subject matter consisting of an American saying that he spent 3 days in Paris than went straight to Strasbourg (dude, you just skipped half the country on the way) I'm skeptical of that term.. Basing in a city and using it to get to nearby places is a legit strategy. I think the lines are so blurred for what constitutes slow travel that it doesn't really work as a term. Personally, I'd imagine it to be like an all-inclusive holiday in the Costa del Sol, you're not really travelling places, you're relaxing and having fun, its slow travel!

>>2895505
>dude, you just skipped half the country on the way
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