4 Top Tips to Keep Your Valuables Safe While Travelling

Travelling can be fun only when you fully enjoy your vacation without losing any of your valuables. It is very difficult to keep your luggage safe while travelling. We very well know that a lost piece of luggage can easily ruin your vacation. Not one or two, but there are multiple items that easily gets lost while travelling.

Imagine you are super excited for sightseeing and roaming around for the whole day. And suddenly you realised that you have lost your handbag which has your camera, wallet and cards. How annoying as well as disheartening!

Especially if you are travelling abroad, two things you need to take care of — Your luggage size/weight and lock style. It is one thing to remember what to pack when travelling abroad, but it is equally vital to have the right-sized bag for your trip. Investing in tamper resistant luggage makes your belongings safer.

In addition, you must know that the current airport luggage screening procedures are difficult to tell which lock you should purchase. TSA approved locks are not completely secure. You can go for a fastener (such as zip ties or tape tags) on your bag that can help you protect your valuables from falling out. Anytime, a lock is better than no lock when your goal is to keep your luggage safe.

Your most important valuables like wallet and passport should be placed in such a way that it is easy to pick when required. Also, it should be all time safe; at no cost it should get dropped from your bag. The best way to keep your luggage safe, especially things like wallet, cameras, passport, is to hide them in an unconventional fashion. For instance, if you are going out for sightseeing, you can keep your cash in a zipper pocket rather than open pocket.

Further, never ever leave your luggage unattended. If you are carrying too many things during your travel, pack it in such a way that only most valuable stuffs stay with you and rest all keep safe in your luggage.

Losing luggage seems ‘the end of the world’ to many travellers. And, nothing is wrong in it. The handy option to keep your luggage safe is to get the right travel insurance for your trip. Your travel insurance helps to recover the financial loss of your lost item.

Another important benefit of travel insurance is it provides protection against trip cancellation and interruption. Also, it covers medical emigration, which means that travellers do not need to pay medical emergency transportation expenses with their own money.

However, coming back to lost luggage — it is difficult for sure, and perhaps expensive to replace everything.

To ease the pain, make sure you get the right level of cover especially if you’re carrying expensive cameras and laptops or smart phones.

When you have made up your mind to travel, also get prepared to lose your valuables. We would like to give you a very basic advice i.e. not to carry anything which you couldn’t bear to part with, especially sentimental and valuable stuff. And, even if it is must for you to carry it — take the preventive measures as mentioned in this post. After all, to travel is to live.

Do you know any other way to keep your luggage safe while travelling? If so, do drop in your words in the comments section. We’d love to hear from you.

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