To ask for your most unhinged packing lists?

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Trying to cover all bases.

I’m not talking the “oh yeah I whack a teabag in my baggage”, i’m talking the type of stuff most people would never dream of taking.

Always take Yorkshire Tea, never without it

What good/extra stuff do people keep in their travel first aid kits!?

Always a roll of hydrocolloid tape. It’s so multipurpose and takes up very little space. It can be cut into small pimple patch sizes or you can use bigger strips for cuts, blisters or scrapes. You can also use it as preventative protection if shoes start to rub,

Might I recommend as the next generation to the four way adapter

https://amzn.eu/d/0hfyGHPw

Great for charging, no good for straighteners etc though

I second this sort of thing. Everything that I would take with me on holiday is charged by USB C, so I’d don’t have any need for any sort of travel adapter.
Phone, iPad, camera, battery pack, watch, headphones, handheld fan, laptop (although I don’t usually take that with me).

I have one annoying little device left (a mini printer that I use for journaling) that requires a micro usb adapter, but everything else that I travel with is charged by USB C. We have something a bit like the one linked above (but with all USB C ports) that we use in the hotel and then we also each have a tiny little two port one with folding prongs that we carry everywhere that can be plugged into power ports on planes and trains, as well as being put to use in the hotel.

We also make sure that we have decent cables that suport PD and fast charging.

I do not get hotel rooms with a glass dividing wall between the bathroom and bedroom. Or open plan bathroom area in the room.

As to those who have either of these in their own homes. Why???????

People don't want see anyone regardless how much they are in love with them doing a poo

I take a pop up mesh laundry basket. It folds up very small. But then I’ve got somewhere to keep dirty laundry tidy, and at the end of the holiday I sort it into darks, lights etc. for re packing to packing cubes so everything for the same was is together.

It doesn’t bother me tbh, however I can certainly understand why people might want the privacy of their own toilet time!

Awkward on a first overnight date.

😁😁 Yes definitely, hadn’t thought of that possibility!

You've met someone new and just been given a good passionate seeing to by someone for the first time, then end up having to watch him taking a dump. Ooh romance.

I gave my daughter some carbon monoxide detector stickers when she went travelling for a year. Not unhinged at all. They don’t sound an alarm but change colour. I knew she would refuse an actual alarm, but a few stickers … No idea if she used them but it made me feel better about her going

Another one I completely forgot about- grab rails. My DM and myself have balance issues when getting in/out bath (shower over bath) and slippery afterwards. Some hotels have no grab rails or badly placed
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I have read the entire thread, and haven’t seen this one. I take vinegar (as well as ketchup, which I can see someone else does too) when holidaying in the UK. I don’t want to know how long any ketchup that might be in the Airbnb has been there and I hate having to go and find a supermarket just to buy ketchup for the chips! Fish and chips naturally being the UK summer holiday essential.

if you’re going abroad, be really careful with all this medication! For example, there is lots of stuff which are highly prohibited substances in Japan that we can just buy without even going to the pharmacy. Always check! And if you do go to Japan, ignore anything called a pharmacy and go to the medication part of a department store. Pharmacies over there will try and sell you herbal nonsense, you can get eg loperimide in a Japanese department store medicine section (though it will be a much weaker strength than in the uk).

My husband keeps emergency vinegar in the car. Abroad he makes do with balsamic.
We take some clothes wash Abroad. To remove balsamic stains from clothes.

If we’re taking the car & self catering I always pack my butter dish. It’s one of those insulated ones and keeps butter at just the right temp. I also take an apron any time we’re self catering…even abroad.

When s/c with dh I lways packed my egg frying pan.

I think it sounds awful . And the only time I go to a hotel is if I’m holidaying with a friend . Having read on MN that such hotels exist I’m now scrutinising website photos and reading reviews to check anywhere I’m booking has standard facilities.

I haven't seen it mentioned, but after seeing loads of Germans with these on our holiday last year I am bringing some. Seem very handy for storing 'stuff' (toys/ suncream/ all those things that end up on the table)

I also have a bungy cord with pegs.
Kitchen scissors

www.amazon.co.uk/Hanging-Compartment-Foldable-Organizer-Bathroom/dp/B0CGMYDNVD/ref=sr_1_4?crid=IRM5S0Z9L32M&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-XWkIBA9ZX7ECF5u_AbbOKAwGvfZcBQx0CJLI1sbdXYsbxp9_PlBSiGxXdau1vZo0W_R8i7TOCW3SRYs92tFcxQ8NkiIbp6fUCu-3XiIK6rLc1S0uP8RoGSwb4PAd859EzwJJ-LsmKePpQfwNzNSeXyIIyt-YUdPBP0Lj3QzFgtMLql06Fsjkb1O5sOIDS8DhlUcljGnlFCg3dYKIJx3tNQ8JTwWpIisxwh2AWNk3iS8zhmptIMWidM0t2Hf4ntmXbSxHDli2CFk06Er7x3_1EwLtxKTtIQmtgLlJM-11ws.-wAmRwDev-jePJv_foaYIoPyIuBDYhFxq345zLjvm08&dib_tag=se&keywords=teddy+bear+net+bag+with+4+holes&qid=1786349137&sprefix=teddy+bear+net+bag+with+4+holes%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-4

How heavy are these extension leads? Aren’t they weighty? And are these for flights abroad?

Box of cereal/sweets for snacking in the room, granola bars/breakfast biscuits for if going out exploring.
Immodium and rehydration tablets in the medical bag.
Then just the usual - painkillers/anti histamine/ bite cream/ mozzie spray/heartburn medicine/plasters/germoline.
I also take lightweight towels from Decathlon as even if i don’t need them they work very well pegged to a parasol to add more shade.
Towel pegs/bands to stop them
blow in the breeze.

I only take 1, with 4 sockets. It weighs I'd guess 300grams

I’m really curious as to what you are plugging into them. I don’t even take a plug adapter abroad with me anymore because nothing I take on holiday with me has a uk plug on it. Everything goes through a charging block nowadays.

What are people taking on holiday with them that isn’t now charged by some sort of USB?

Beyond perhaps a pair of hair straighteners or hairdryer, I’m genuinely struggling to think of what a person would travel with that would require a U.K. style plug socket at all, let alone 4 them.

Never heard of this but just ordered some as it sounds very useful.

We tend to do euro camp style holidays. They last one didn't have USB sockets. We charge 2 phone and maybe a tablet for the DC if it needs to be charged before flying + headphones. I also bring the baby camera, we stay in 2 bed lodges so I can have the monitor in the sitting room/ balcony when the DC go to bed.

I started bringing one when I was a backpacker on Oz/ Asia when I had phone charger/ laptop charger/ straightener and who knows what else!