If you choose to travel on your own without an agency, keep in mind you’ll have to prepare it everything from choosing the destination, search for tickets and hotels to the issue of vaccine if you are a country that requires. We give you a few of recommendations for easier and you do not forget anything.
The choice of destiny is the first thing to decide because from there everything else orient. This will based on personal or preferences prices, because if we find a good deal on plane tickets and we can afford, we can not ignore these opportunities. On the other hand, we must ensure we can have those days off at work. Request them in advance if necessary.
Which will be preuspuesto than we have. Vicar Essential for business class or tourist, booking hotels for three or five stars, etc..
Is the purpose of travel is leisure or work?
Make sure to check the time it will do and even going to be good, take something warm, water boots and an umbrella. Prevention is better …
Documentation:
Once you’ve chosen your destination, documentation and try to know everything worth seeing. For this you can use specialized guides in the country, are very comprehensive and typically include sections with major museums and restaurants. It also gives recommendations to go out for a drink. The problem is that some are just updated and if you go to a capital, will interest you the most current data.
To do this we have the Internet. There you can find everything from maps, street maps, cultural information, latest concert dates, a temporary exhibition, and so on. Take as much time as you can in this worthwhile.
On transport, we must decide how you will go, whether by plane, boat, car, etc. to book early. Remember that the sooner you buy, better and cheaper. Do not forget to also prepare how you will get around the city you travel: if you like the subway or bus to see the city better. You see it all online.
Documentation
ID card, passport and visa. If our destination corresponds to a European Union country or some other such as Andorra, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, Switzerland is enough to take the DNI, but we need to verify that is not expired. But for the other countries need passports. In this case we must check in time the validity of our passport, bearing in mind that some countries require a minimum period of six months from the date of entry into the country, so it will be necessary to renew the passport if we intend that on entering the country in question its validity period is less than or around that time. In most cases the maximum permitted stay in the country ranges between 30 and 90 days, although one has to check each case. For stays of longer or non-tourist activities, such as going to study or work, we should consult the embassy or consulate.
But besides the passport, there are many countries where a visa is also required. This is an authorization granted by the country concerned and that is stamped on the passport itself, being a prerequisite for entering the country. We must therefore inform either the country or countries to visit require visas to enter the date of our trip. This we can learn from several sources: by contacting the relevant Embassy or Consulate, looking on the Internet, through travel guide, etc. but a good place to do this is through Web Travel advice updated by the Ministry Spanish Foreign Affairs, specifying travel documents and requirements in any country in the world.
In some countries a visa is obtained direct to the arrival in the country (airport or land border) and is free. In others, such as Turkey or Egypt for example, also be obtained on arrival, but must pay the corresponding amount set. In some countries you can only get if we go by its international airport, but not if we do it through a land border. Finally there is another group of countries where the visa, you get ante of arrival. In this case, geographical proximity of our home to the Embassy or Consulate for the management can do personally then things are more or less easy.
Vaccines
If you’re traveling to a tropical country, learn if you need to vaccinate for possible diseases. For information on the global health situation (and vaccination requirements and / or recommended) can CONSULTRAD Castilian pages in global health status by country of the Ministry of Health and Consumption, WHO – World Health Organization, or of Travel Health Online , the latter in English.
In many cases simply vaccination is recommended, but in others it is mandatory and may be required by local authorities in some countries. This is the case of yellow fever, so we take with us, along with other documentation, the relevant international vaccination certificate attesting that are vaccinated.
For any trip, if we are following very specific medical treatment or require some special attention would be nice comment on the fact the trip to our GP.