The Best Gifts To Travel Places and How To Drop Hints For Your Wish List
When you travel places, visit the people, see the things, drop into that cute coffee shop for a shot of java to keep moving through your jet lag afternoon {AND find an outlet to charge your dying phone}, you realize you need a particular list for the traveling through life person.
Today’s gift guide is for YOU {or the person you’re shopping for} if
- You like to travel
- You forget things
- You’re not sure what to bring on your trips
- You know a person who overpacks for every trip
- You need a fun, cute, unique stocking stuffer, Hanukkah gift, or office party exchange
{Fine! #4 is me — I’m the overpacker! And while you’re judging me, I’ll just spill the rest too… YES, I am THAT MOM who asked her teens before every trip if they had extra space in their suitcases for this or that. 🤷🏻♀️}
But that now comes in very handy in putting together a travelers shopping guide for you!
It was all for research.
The Travel Places Wish List
Other uber specific gift guides if you’re looking for other gift inspiration::
Travel Places with this Gift List of 15
1/ Portable Charging Station for your phone, watch, and airpods — I’d always, ok, 8/10 times, forget one of my chargers until I bought this one. One charger + it folds flat in my suitcase
2/ Packing Cubes for easy packing –and unpacking–
I wrote about my packing cubes in this post. I tested out the less expensive Bagail set, but now I’m hooked and getting a few compression cubes too.
- The Eagle Creek pack-it set gets good reviews too {but I haven’t tried these personally}
- Container Store takes the guess work out of their packing cubes 😂
3/ The frequent flyer on your list will love the creativity in this Bottoms Up Gin & Tonic kit
4/ Apple Watch — Yes, on the splurge side, + yes, very ‘square’ in style but for traveling this is life to me. It’s connected to my phone so I can talk through it {we see you Buck Rogers}, I pay with it, Find + track my phone when I forget where I set it🤦🏽♀️, and keep track of my workouts/steps.
I’m a cautious traveler, so not having to take out my wallet or phone all the time while traveling, hiking, site-seeing, or shopping is one less way for me to lose or forget something.
I sparkle up my watch with this cover to give my watch a little zaz
5/ Noise Canceling Earbuds I’ve used AirPod Pros. The regular ones don’t fit my ears right and ache after an hour.
Other like the cover-my-head headphones, So I linked a few of the better rated ones here too.
6/ Portable chargers are a MUST. Ever take a video, or 2,351 photos on a trip and see your battery drop to 6% while out on a hike?
Mini portable with powerful charge
Thin all-purpose charger for multiple devices and carry case
7/ A Flat Travel Pillow — Yep, I said flat — hows that for a packers DREAM!? And with over 30K reviews it’s time to save the neck of your professional-plane-sleeper and gift them a new {+ washable} travel pillow
8/ When I say Rick Steves, you think?
The man, the guru, the travel book icon. Me too!
We’re planning a trip back to Italy in 2024 and you bet your bibbity-bobbity-magic-trip-planning will include the latest Rick Steves Italy edition on my Christmas list.
{If you’re looking for yourself and don’t want to buy a copy, check you local library}
9/ Any & All International Travel needs an adaptor and all-n-one is the ONLY WAY TO GO
10/ Bag it up for the traveler in one of these 3 ideas::
Baggallini Purse
Backpack
IKEA backpack-or-tote
11/ Sun Hat | Hiking Hat | Visor :: Keep the sunspots away, but also avoid wearing goopy sunscreen all the time
12/ TSA Travel Bottle Set that are easy to refill, easy to squeeze, easy to pack
13/ American Airlines Gift Cards — I’m sure all airlines have them, but we fly AA 99% of the time😉
14/ Weleda Lotion — Perfect sticking stuffer and small to fit in luggage, carry-on, or the clear bag that comes with your TSA bottle set {find it at Amazon, Target, Macy’s}
15/ My Never Tangle Jewelry Ever Again Box {and it come in pink!} And by gifting this, you’re letting all the Ziploc plastic baggies return to sandwich-only duty.
Have you started your holiday shopping?
Andrea ~ The Next Chapter Blogger
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P.P.S Dropping hints that you’d like #3 and #7 this holiday is as easy as emailing or texting this blog link to your Hubs, Sister, Mom, Mom-in-Law…
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