A travel influencer has revealed the one travel hack she always uses before she leaves her hotel room – no matter where she is on holiday
When leaving a hotel room, most of us will just check our pockets and bags for a few key items; your room key, wallet, phone and other essentials. However one travel influencer has revealed there’s one thing she always does before she steps out of the door, and it’s nothing to do with what she’s packed in her bag.
Nesha Woolery, 32, often shares travel hacks and tips on Instagram through her account @travelwithnesha_ which has garnered nearly 13,000 followers. The Birmingham-based travel pro says that she has a handful of clever habits to help her with ‘timemaxxing’ on holiday, aka making smarter use of your time when you’ve only got a few days to explore somewhere new.
Teaming up with budget hotel chain easyHotel, she revealed that over the years, she’s found a way to minimise the amount of time wasted on trying to figure out your next location and, crucially, how to get there. To squeeze every minute out of a city break, Nesha’s go-to trick is downloading an offline map and pinning all her stops before stepping out of the hotel.
“I save an offline map in Google Maps with every stop pinned so no wasting time connecting to Wi-Fi or waiting for maps to load,” she explained, to avoid being out on her phone in public, or risking a few wrong turns. That also includes making note of any indoor attractions in the vicinity, so that if the weather doesn’t play ball, instead of rushing about trying to find any cover, Nesha still gets to enjoy some sightseeing, without having to ditch her plans completely.
“If the weather turns, I’m just five minutes away from an indoor spot that I actually want to go to and not standing in the rain figuring out where to go,” she explained.
Meanwhile if there’s a night out on the cards, Nesha takes her planning that one step further. She added: “If I know I am staying out late, I locate the 2am kebab place at 2pm so when the night ends there is no decision making, no wandering around hungry, we just head straight there!”
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