Traveling solo can be intimidating — so we asked travel bloggers to share their best tips for traveling alone. Hopefully their advice will help you navigate — or even inspire — your next solo adventure.
Don’t feel lonely
If you get lonely, mingle with the locals.
Pub crawls and walking tours are other easy ways to meet people in a new city besides hostels.
Keep an emergency stash of cash, just in case.
Keep an emergency fund of cash on you (~100 USD/Euro in local currency) and a good reserve of money in your bank account. This will especially prove useful when having an medical emergency and you have to see a doctor. You’ll have to pay upfront, and will get reimbursed later by your travel/medical insurance
Mark your phone map with where you’re staying so you’ll never get lost.
Pin your own accommodation. This way you always know your current location relative to, and have directions back to it, no matter where you are in town.
Travel with insurance.
In an ideal world, traveling solo would be a walk in the park. In reality, anything could go wrong, so it’s best to be prepared with travel insurance that could cover those not-so-pretty travel moments. —Ciara Johnson
Know your limits
“Drinking until you can’t stand or going until you can’t go anymore is totally not the best idea. It’s especially important to know your limits when you’re the only person looking out for yourself.” —Ciara Johnson
Get a selfie stick — you won’t regret it.
Listen, when other people aren’t around or you’re too shy to ask them to take a photo, the selfie stick will help. A Bluetooth one is great because you can take it from afar! —Arielle Calderon
Research about your destination
Do some research about each destination you’re going to and organize the basics, like where you’re staying and how to get there, before you arrive.
Make sure you know how to get from where your transportation is (airport, train station etc.) to where you’re staying. Winging it can be fun in some circumstances, but when you just got off a train and you’re tired, you wanna know where you’re going! —igivemyselfthecreeps
