Never Travel Without the Essentials

Want to travel like a pro? If you need a holiday from your holiday because your trip hasn’t exactly gone as planned, take note of these tips from South Africa’s top travel experts. This will ensure that from here on, it’s only ever plain sailing. Travel Documentation Travelling into Africa or India? Club Travel’s Jean-pierre Brink says you should always print your e-ticket and boarding pass because there are many airports here that won’t allow passengers into the terminal without a copy. “I’ve had passengers miss their flights because of this, so I always travel with a printed e-ticket.”

Nicky Potgieter, Leisure Marketing Leader Flight Centre Travel Group, says better still, make sure you have copies of all your important documents accessible online. “If the print copies go missing, at least you’ll be able to go to an Internet café or the business centre in a hotel and download them from your Gmail or the Cloud.”