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  • 138 of 138 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 torr

    Member since 29/08/2002

    Reviews written: 348

    5 Stars Don't leave home without them Review with images 08/08/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages "We must not think of the things we could do with..."

    Disadvantages Disadvantages "… only of the things that we can't do without." (Jerome K Jerome)

    I like to think I’m a seasoned traveller. By this I do not mean one with salt and pepper already added, but one who has been to a few places, seen them and come away with T-shirts to swell the wardrobes of my long-suffering offspring. In the course of travelling one does acquire many things: not only T-shirts, but stamps in passports, insect bites, a smattering of odd words in even odder languages, and above all experience. Experience, as Oscar Wilde once observed, is the name we give to our mistakes, but we can learn from our mistakes. I know from experience which items are essential to take ... more
  • 96 of 96 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 koshkha

    Member since 26/12/2005

    Reviews written: 974

    4 Stars Top Ten Tips for Troublefree Holiday Packing 01/11/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Based on a lot of experience

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You may not have the same ideas about what's an essential

    I should be getting ready for my holiday - I leave on Friday night and so far I've not been able to get my act together. Give me a month or 10 minutes to prepare, I'll still leave it all to the last minute - but I've packed so often I know I'll not forget anything really important. So here - perhaps a little unseasonal for most people - are my top ten tips on what to take on holiday. ~~But first, a warning~~ Any list of indispensable things is very personal and dependent on the type of holiday that you are taking. One person may believe that a holiday without ceramic hair straighteners and a ... more
  • 18 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 thedevilinme

    Member since 13/05/2008

    Reviews written: 1477

    4 Stars Terror Rage ! Review with images 03/03/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Sun

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Stress!

    Check-in desk.. Rodney: I would like to fly to Chicago and can you send my luggage to L.A please! Check in: Sorry sir we cant do that service on this airline." Rodney: You did last week! (Rodney Dangerfiled.R.I.P) With Heathrow and the like facing meltdown at the peak of the Easter holiday season, many of us will be dreading (or still calming down from a very bad travel experience last year), its time to get 'tooled up' for the departure lounge experience awaiting. London’s airports are a nightmare with the terror threat all of us will get very ratty. And it seems BAA (the British Airport ... more
  • 56 of 56 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    raeisthehippychick

    5 Stars Girls just wanna have fun... 21/10/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Holidays are fun

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Unpacking afterwards isn't fun

    Passport, tickets, money… Passport, tickets, money… Anyone who has seen the movie Shirley Valentine can hardly fail to remember her muttered aide memoir as she rushed around the house panicking and dusting. After many years of booking our own ‘pick n mix’ holidays we have devised a very handy little system for ensuring our paperwork is secure and to hand. We buy an A5 book with plastic pouch pages (available at most stationery outlets) and put each ticket in order for both the outward and return journeys with the passports either at the very front or back. This means that at each stage of the ... more
  • 40 of 40 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 Funzo

    Member since 02/07/2001

    Reviews written: 66

    5 Stars 10 essential items to take on your summer hols 30/07/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Your holidays and indeed your life will be enriched by reading this

    Disadvantages Disadvantages absolutely none :)

    Im feeling kind of creative today, ( a euphamism for not wanting to do real work) and i am going on holiday very shortly so i thought i would share with you lucky readers my magnificent list of ten indispensable things that i take on holiday with me. Now obviously there should be a caveat involved... what i take to a boarding holiday in the alps will be different to what i take to ibiza. However for the sake of discussion and the length of discussion i will tell you what i am cramming into my fake louis vitton suitcase for my trip to the south of france. 1) Insurance and E111 - sensible i know ... more
  • 13 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    dariocrosier

    5 Stars Goin on a summer holiday 13/02/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages ?

    Disadvantages Disadvantages ??

    I only really go on holiday to Italy. So by now, things that I take with me I kind of already have wherever I go. I like to get the packing out of the way at least a day and a half before I leave. Ok so straight away, I get my, new, big green suitcase and... The first thing I put in is - My clothes, generally useful in everyday life. My second Item is dispensable, but it is so important I almost put it first. Chewing gum - for on the plane when your ears start to hurt. Or to make the pain pass you could yawn... "yey". Thirdly - I bring, fashion and a lifestyle that makes others jealous (all ... more
  • 74 of 74 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 wulise

    Member since 11/07/2000

    Reviews written: 372

    5 Stars A Wacky World According to Wulise. Holiday Advice. 25/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Holiday essentials!!!!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Don't believ all I tell you.

    This opinion has been inspired following a chat with Angus and a recent trip to Austria, where I meet an eccentric English couple on holiday. In my bag I packed one thong. Why? The thong can be worn six times without washing. Wear for one day, rotate 120O clockwise for the following two days, then turn it inside out and repeat. Hey presto six days of underwear with no washing require! In my bag I packed a sarong. Why? The sarong can cover the swimsuit, folded in half be used as a skirt or full length tied to form a dress. (A variety of knotting can produce many different designs). The sarong ... more
  • 60 of 60 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Aspen

    5 Stars What to Take on Holiday to Scotland 03/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Sunshine between showers.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Showers.

    I apologise for hi-jacking (yet again) a general category, but the simple fact is this. No two destinations are the same. So general lists, though helpful, do not adequately cover all eventualities. So, if travelling to Scotland this summer, please remember it may be similar to winter in many other parts of this universe. Here are a few suggestions. 1. Midgie Repellent. Forget it, it doesn’t work. Scottish midgies are hardy b*ggers, and have become immune to all antidotes Mankind has ever invented. If you don’t smoke, start. Even temporarily. If you do smoke, start to chain-smoke ... more
  • 54 of 54 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 BawBaw

    Member since 06/04/2003

    Reviews written: 93

    5 Stars Travel Essential #1: A Childlike Sense of Wonder Review with images 17/04/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Helps ensure that each new experience is fresh and exciting

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too often mistaken for naivete

    Do you love to travel? Are you invigorated by visiting new places and meeting new people? Do you crane your neck the better to see the graceful lines of a magnificent building? Are exclamations of delight known to escape your lips? Do you eagerly anticipate what lies around the next bend in the road? Is people-watching one of your passions? Do you come back home from a holiday trip with the addresses and phone numbers of new friends? If you can answer "Yes" to these questions, then chances are that much of your childlike sense of wonder is still intact. If you're a traveler--or, dare we use ... more
  • 112 of 112 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 wiggglypufff

    Member since 15/11/2000

    Reviews written: 293

    5 Stars His 'n' Hers Hols 15/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Women can pack!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Men can't

    Rumour, Legend or just a Mythological tale, but the packing of luggage to take on holiday has for many years been seen, even by the fairer sex, as a job that only WOMEN can get right. Now that we are in the 2000's, I think it only fair to see how far MAN has evolved in the luggage department. (not the Linford Christie luggage department!) I am honoured to team up with the irrepressible Wiggglypufff, alias Karen of Kent, to compare how we would pack a suitcase for a 1 week holiday in Tenerife. As women seem to have the upper hand in this debate, I will bow down to tradition and manners (!) and ... more
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