International Travel tips?

aussiegirl

aussiegirl

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Two of my daughter's are going on Missions Trips within the next few months. One is going to Indonesia and one is going to Japan. The furthest I have been from the US is Bahamas and Canada, so I don't know much about international travel (the lonest flight I took was to Hawaii).

So, what tips or tricks do all you international travelers have for them? They will both be with a group, so no solo travel this time!

I am excited for them both (and have already looked in the store and in my stash for what kits I can use to scrap these amazing trips!)
 
If they get to use their cell phones, really pay attention to the dates of your package with your carrier. I thought that I selected dates from a calendar on their website when purchasing the plan, but then I got a text saying the plan was ending right when she got to Italy. Here, Verizon started the billing right when I ordered the package and not on the dates that I really thought I had selected. I should have screen shotted everything. So, I had to pay for another month.
 
I don't know if you want to look into a travel doctor, but when I had to travel to Asia for work. I got additional vaccines that were not needed in the US.
I decided to get a typhoid shot because it's prevalent in certain places in Asia. As well as Malaria medication depending on where you go.

Also, drinking bottled water is important. When brushing teeth rinse with bottled water.
 
We need to look into our phone service, thanks for that reminder!

They both checked and there are not any vaccines that they are required to get (when another daughter went to Uruguay she had to get one). Will remind them both to drink bottled water! Thank you!
 
Japan should be clean enough for your daughter, but my home country Indonesia is not quite. So yes, drink bottled water in Indonesia.
She should also bring comfy sandals, t-shirts (cottony/summer clothes) and mosquito repellant lotions. Indonesia is a humid tropical country with lots of mosquitoes, so repellant lotions is quite important.
You might also want to buy them travel adaptors. Japan uses 110V and Indonesia uses 220-240V, so their US adaptors might not work.

I am not sure if their mission trips already include travel insurance, but that could be something you want to look at.
 
nietis said:
Japan should be clean enough for your daughter, but my home country Indonesia is not quite. So yes, drink bottled water in Indonesia.
She should also bring comfy sandals, t-shirts (cottony/summer clothes) and mosquito repellant lotions. Indonesia is a humid tropical country with lots of mosquitoes, so repellant lotions is quite important.
You might also want to buy them travel adaptors. Japan uses 110V and Indonesia uses 220-240V, so their US adaptors might not work.

I am not sure if their mission trips already include travel insurance, but that could be something you want to look at.
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They have an adaptor that they will share (it's supposed to be a Universal adaptor so we shall see). We didn't think of mosquito repellent, so I passed that onto her! Thank you so much!
 
Yep, definitely need mosquito repellent ;)
the mossies in Indonesia are on different level :D
which part of Indonesia are they going to?
 
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