Must Haves....In Your Carry On
- Airline tickets or e-ticket confirmation
- Passport/driver's licenceCredit cards (take only those you'll need)
- Hotel confirmations
- Traveller's cheques / foreign currency
- Photocopies of all of the above, plus a photocopy of related medical and/or trip insurance coverage and prescriptions (leave the copies in the room safe or the hotel's main safe if there isn't one in your room)
- Prescription medicine (in the original bottle)
- Light sweater (for the plane, which can get cold)
- Valuable jewelry, wear it or take it in your carry-on, don't put it in any baggage to be checked
- Small clear ziploc bag for gels and liquids that must meet minimum size requirements
Don't Forget
- Camera (disposable cameras are much more expensive at vacation spots)
- Extra film or memory for digital cameras
- For the sun - sun block, lip balm with SPF, aloe gel, after sun lotion
- Sunglasses
- Sun hat or baseball cap
- Paperback books (you can leave them in the hotel library once you've read them)