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Travel Essentials
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items These are the things you need to preprare, save, budget and organize for before you go. Months in advance. Items and tools to make travel smoother with tips in the notes.
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Before the Trip: Packing
Transportation
Before the Trip: Packing
Before you book your next trip consider these items specially for a European trip if it's your first time.
Packing cubes are great to reduce space but also organize. I use them for both and color code them amongst my family each has their own color.
BAGAIL 8 Set Packing Cubes Luggage Organizers
the right suitcase set can make it or break it specially in europe with the cobble stones and small vehicles. Also the gliding is crucial for hauling the luggage around specially from city to city trips like trains
setLuggage & Suitcases - Check-In & Carry-On Rolling Luggage - Beis
travel insurance is something that is not really spoken about but specially with kids is important and delayed flights
Travel Insurance - Affordable Plans Starting at $27 | Allianz Partners
I used several E-sims in my last travel trying them and they all pretty worked closely together. Just get it ready before arriving to your destination.
Kolet: Next-gen eSIM
This was my go to travel esim it was easy and relatievly price competitive. I got more bank for my buck.
aloSIM | Download eSIMs for travel data in 200+ countries
Can't say enough about these super compact and practical.Kept things dry, safe and perfect. I have sensitve skin and privates taking these was a life saver
18pack TSA Approved Silicone Travel Bottles
I had both and used both but the thicker wool items were best with the vacuum seal clothes. I traveled recently for winter and this saved so much space it was incredible.
Vacuum Packing Cubes - Amazon.com
My husband and I researched the tickets and came to the conclusion that is was less expensive and we could see more attractions by using turbo pass. Each city we paid for gave complimentary Esim and transportation pases as well. Easy to use and added...
TurboPass- Florence Vacation
This is a true Hack- after checking multiple options this was less expensive, easy to use and provide complimentart Esim and transport passes. Note: please read instructions some tickets require a separate confirmation directly to a loval site.
TurboPass- Venice City Pass
The tickets cover all favorite items the entire family wanted to visit. all the tickets come with the tour bus complimentary Esim and bus ticket
Rome City Pass | Your sightseeing ticket for Rome - Turbopass
This pass had everything and the price had no comparison. Just make sure you separate with time the louvre and other sitesthey get booked months in advance
Paris City Pass | Your Pass for all of Paris - Turbopass
For US local travel this one is awesome we used it last year for our boston trip and we saved a lot of money seeing everything we wanted.
Sign In - My CityPASS® App
Transportation
European Trip knowing multiple forms of transportation is crucial. I visited France and Italy. These were the apps I used.
This is an option for the countries I went to which was Italy and France
Freenow by Lyft - taxi & more - App Store - Apple
Used this app in france but can be used in several areas
itTaxi - App Store - Apple
Another option for transportation
Moovit
we did the 1st bus class was very comfortable for our family and they provide snacks and beverages
Home Trenitalia | Trenitalia
This is esssentially for Venice, we used this once we arrived by train for boat transportation and used the buses to head to the airport. Took us directly there.
Home AVM (eng)
used this for routes and time schedules
Public Transportation in Paris and Île-de-France - Bonjour RATP
this one was the best map in real time to move around when we went to Paris.
Île-de-France Mobilités | Transports en commun sur Paris, sa région