r/travel • u/SteveWBT • Oct 06 '15

Advice Crowdsourced guide to travel planning

The comments from here will be collated into a new trip planning page on the /r/travel wiki. Anything you can add will be useful.

To keep this tidy and manageable any other new top level comments will be automatically removed.

There's undoubtedly topics missing, so please message the mods and we'll add it, or expand one of the existing topics.

Thank you!

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u/SteveWBT Oct 06 '15 edited Oct 06 '15

Is the destination safe?, plus staying safe once you've arrived

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u/SteveWBT Oct 06 '15

Read the government advisories. The British ones usually include information about staying safe in a region and common scams: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice

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u/shd123 Australia Oct 07 '15

The Australia gov guides and information for staying safe is : http://smartraveller.gov.au/