The Comfy Backpacker Travel & Tours Holiday Packing Tips “Packing Smart” can ensure smoother travels during hectic holiday travel Season. Since the phrases ‘holiday travel’ and ‘pack light’ seem incongruous, we advise our clients instead to ‘pack smart,’ including packing your common sense, along with time and patience. We are providing five simple, yet essential packing tips that can ensure you ‘Travel Comfortably and Travel Better.’ 1. Roll your clothes. The most frequent travelers – including the road warriors – roll their clothes instead of folding. Simply fold them in half and roll from the bottom up. Use the rolled items to fill in the spaces around any folded items, which will help keep everything from shifting during travel. Rolling not only saves space, but it results in fewer wrinkles. Rolling works particularly well with casual items such as jeans, t-shirts and polo or golf shirts. 2. Invest in versatile, comfortable shoes. - The bulkiest, bag-hogging items you can pack are shoes. By investing in comfortable shoes that can be matched with a variety of outfits, you can maximize luggage space for other items. Just wear your versatile pair of shoes and bring along another. 3. Never over-pack.- When you over stuff your luggage, you not only risk damaging the bag itself, but you’ll end up with wrinkled clothes. To extend the life of both your clothes and your bags, reconsider every item before you pack and ask, ‘Do I really need this?’ We also advise that since virtually all hotels now provide guests with such amenities as hair dryers and irons equipped with ironing boards, these items can be left at home. 4. Ship bulky items in advance of your trip. - Considering that most airlines now charge for bags to be checked – and it can run in the hundreds of dollars for a family – we advise our customers to plan ahead and ship their bulkiest items ahead to their final destination, if this is applicable. The cost of shipping in advance can be considerably less expensive and can actually minimize wear and tear on the items. Also, remember that holiday gifts – especially those that have already been wrapped – are the perfect items to consider shipping. 5. Be strict with yourself. - Remember that you can always wear several items you’re packing more than once, such as donning the same sweater with different shirts or the same jeans with practically everything else. “Travel Comfortably/ Travel Better” by visiting us online at thecomfybackpacker or simply call 780-707-1683.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 04:25:00 +0000
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