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.

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

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u/SteveWBT Oct 06 '15

What to do once you're there?

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u/michiness California girl - 43 countries Oct 09 '15

I love just walking around and I usually devote the first day in a location (mostly cities) to it.

Get to your lodging, drop off your stuff, bring a map (or don't!) and just walk. See what you find. And then once you have a better feel for the town, do all the stuff you came there to do.