to ask what is the one thing you never go on holiday without?

[beelover]

In our case its a pack of toilet rolls. Don't ask me why but we always take some with us whenever we are going away, even just for a weekend. No history of ever running out of them anywhere but just can't leave home without a back up supply

Microfibre towels for the beach, they fold very small, are lightweight, very absorbent and dry really quickly. Because they are light you can wash them easily by hand if they get too grubby/sticky with sun lotion etc. Brilliant to take on boat trips where there is a swim stop. We usually take two each, and only one ordinary beach towel to put on the sun lounger.

ROFL @ my SANITY

Yy to the thingy that takes lots of plugs in one socket
Adapters
Chargers
Books : I've tried reading on a Kindle, it's not for me

Everything else can buy there easily

Good god- where do you all go on holiday. I pretty much travel the world and have never needed any of these items.

Other than a passport the only thing I can think that you would need is a credit card/cash.

The charger for my electric wheelchair, my phone (in case my chair breaks and I get stranded) and my debit card are my three can't go away without. And I rarely go for a big day out without them either in case there's some major problem with the trains and I can't go home.

This time, very little beyond the passport-phone-money-prescription meds essentials, I hope - as we will have a car, be self catering, and be in easy reach of lots of shops.

It makes a change from the last few years which have been resorts on islands - so everything is $$$ with no shopping choices. Then I have ordered industrial amounts of insect repellent and sun cream and packed a full medical kit.

I cannot recall packing loo paper since we used to go camping when I was a child. Then we packed bloody everything.

Erm my passport checks bag for the four hundredth time

Teabags, sweetex and marmite. I refuse to live without these.
And painkillers.

Earplugs everywhere I go, even just for one night. I'm such a light sleeper.

sadie9 Where do you buy Motilium? I don't think you can buy it in the UK anymore unfortunately.

A sarong. Doubles as a beach towel, changing room for DC, pillow, head covering and cover for dubious-looking mattresses in hostels where required.

My iPod.

Kindle. If all else goes to pot, I can read myself to happiness.

Tea bags

FWIW; I usually go on holiday in UK or ROI but my migraines go from 0-10 so fast I'd be stupid to leave the house without my meds and tiny bottle of water post check in if flying

Camera and a pack of playing cards

Has anyone tried children learning reading by Jim Yang programme? I'm wondering whether it's worth to purchase.

I travel a fair bit and always take a really cheap scarf/pashmina type thing.

Its good for:
when you're a bit chilly
when the train headrest is a bit grubby
to fold up as a travel pillow
to use as a headscarf in drizzle/wind
if your hotel room has a really horrible picture on the wall that you want to cover up
lending to a child who has forgotten their teddy

Imodium.

iPad. On it now, on holiday

Corkscrew

Crunchymum Thu 28-Jul-16 16:36:12

KC225 do you just pack a case load of dental floss?

If all else fails, I guess you could crochet with it to relieve the boredom

Without DC:

• Passport
• A few clothes
• Piece of cloth that can do as a sarong/scarf/towel (as Paradise says)
• Nurofen

With DC:

• The World
• The Kitchen Sink
• Entire Contents of Mothercare
• Nurofen

Self catering in UK : sharp knife (and from now on, a sieve...)

Self catering abroad: tea bags

Hotel abroad: travel kettle and aforementioned tea bags

Hotel in UK: a very flexible credit card (usually DH's!)

If staying in a hotel - earplugs to block out DH's snoring.

If self-catering - a corkscrew, just in case (having once had to force my way into our bottle of wine using the steel for the kitchen knives. Who has a sharpening steel but no corkscrew, FFS?)

Piriton

Baby wipes

In fact I usually take both of these with me everywhere.