Comments on: How to Cope with Travel Mistakes

By: Liv

Liv — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:58:12 +0000

After traveling to more than 40 different countries we have had our fair share of travel mistakes. But the adventure of traveling is the best thing to experience in this life. There is no such thing as the perfect travel or trip, but oftentimes the uncertainty of the unknown is the best part of traveling to a new country.

By: Winnie

Winnie — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 04:06:04 +0000

Hi Matt thanks for this wonderful post – My last trip was full of mistakes that I get panic attack trying to plan a new one – scared that I’m jinked with travel mistake coz of my over-excitement. You blogpost calms me down saying that trabel mistakes don’t matter and everyone makes them. Thanks! and your website is my travel bible.

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:35:54 +0000

Nice timing for me. Im just about to head to Russia with very little booked and rumour has it nobody speaks English outside Moscow. I’ll just have to roll with the punches and frustration I suppose!

By: Emma

Emma — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:34:56 +0000

Yeah, stuff happens when you’re on the road. I have a travel insurance that’s always “on”. That’s one thing less to worry about. I would forget take one if didn’t have it all year round.

By: Gwen

Gwen — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:44:03 +0000

My worst mistake was in Paris, I was meeting my hubby there, he was on his 2 week R and R from Iraq. Not knowing the city very well, I booked a hotel on line before leaving home. It was where we were going to stay that the last few days before he went back to Iraq. We decided to drive by to ck it out the day before. WELL, this was in the worst part of Paris. We canceled the room, lost one nite. Now I try to ck the places out better.

By: Shaun Robertson

Shaun Robertson — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:26:02 +0000

I find a positive attitude and a spin on things goes a long ways. Lost luggage? Stuff can be replaced. Took a wrong turn? I love to explore. Wedged in middle seat on a 8-hour flight? Well hello neighbor. That shell fish you bought on the beach smell a bit off? Meh, I could stand to loose a few pounds etc…

By: NomadicMatt

NomadicMatt — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:09:52 +0000

In reply to Andy Watt. That song has the best lyrics in the world. The woman that originally wrote that knew what she was talking about. I still listen to it for inspiration.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:41:22 +0000

Yes, what a timely post! I haven’t made any detrimental travel mistakes, and one of my main mantras is, “There’s always another bus, there’s always another bus.” Which has often worked out for me, except for the unexpected night I spent in Guatemala City. And then the grand ‘mistake’ of flying stand by while the Polar Vortex decided to cancel all these flights across the U.S. So I’m currently “stuck” in Chile. While that sounds really actually wonderful with the warm weather down here, I’ve been needing to get back to the U.S. So I might have made a “mistake” and bought a last minute ticket back to the U.S. And then there’s the other mistake I made last week (thinking it was my last day) buying souvenirs, and realizing later that I spent $30 on a mug, patches, stickers and a spoon.

Anyway, it’s a bummer that these mistakes happen, but it’s comforting to know someone who travels more than I do still makes ’em. It’s how you deal with them that matters!

By: Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 17:21:21 +0000

Hi Matt, thanks for this post.
Ha! I’ve been travelling for years and you would think I know better but two years ago, we went to Tuscany and I couldn’t remember which hotel we were going to. The very same hotel that I had spent time researching and which I had personally booked.

I had booked it one year previously and didn’t print it out so that by the time I remembered six months later, the details had gone! It was supposed to be our splurge hotel too. All I could remember was that it was a 200 year old river-side hotel in Pisa and that I had originally seen it online.

I eventually found it in the New York Times and I got the hotel to re-confirm with me. Phew!

By: David

David — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:08:02 +0000

I made the first mistake you listed on my first trip … went to KLIA instead of the LCCT in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia … barrreeellyyy made my flight.

Good times.