Top 10 Forgotten to take with you on holiday to Thailand
Many holidaymakers know it. The holiday season is coming and everything is well planned, you think. Quickly tick off the checklist for the suitcase and then off to sunny Thailand.
When you arrive at your hotel in Bangkok, it often turns out that several items have been forgotten. Thailandblog has compiled a top 10 of the most forgotten articles from various studies.
Although you would expect the Dutch to be well prepared for holiday to Thailand important things often seem to be forgotten. However, most holidaymakers seem to use the well-known checklist.
Top 10 things to take with you to Thailand
- Charger for mobile, camera and other electronic devices.
- Toiletries (toothbrush, razor, ladyshave, shaver).
- Sunglasses.
- Sunscreen.
- Forgotten clothes (flip flops, swimming trunks, shorts, underwear).
- Medicines.
- Travel insurance.
- Holiday vaccinations.
- Electronics (camera, mp3 player, laptop).
- Passport.
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It is interesting to see that women mention different articles than men. Sunglasses are number one for women. While in number one for men, the charger for electronic devices is at the top. In addition, women mention care products and toiletries much more often.
Checklist
It is wise to use a checklist before the holiday. There are dozens of checklists on the internet per holiday area, type of trip and/or number of people. Forgetting important things such as travel insurance, medicines or vaccinations can have unpleasant consequences. It is also annoying when the battery of the mobile or camera is empty if you don't have a charger available. Of course you can also purchase the forgotten items in Thailand, but then you have to buy them first and you will have the item double when you get home. A waste of money, because good sunglasses, for example, are not cheap.
Travel Insurance
Did you forget to take out travel insurance for your holiday to Thailand? This is possible before departure, but once at your destination it is no longer possible. Do you therefore want to take out travel insurance quickly? You can do that here: Take out travel insurance!
It may sound strange, but I once forgot something that is not even in the list; money. I was at the airport in Mexico City and wanted to exchange a travel check and to my agonizing consternation it turned out that I didn't have it with me. Leave at home. There were no ATMs at that time. To make a very long story very short. Everything turned out all right thanks to a Mexican friend who helped me out of trouble. Ergo: you can forget everything, except money.
A different treasure in every city is therefore a good precaution if you travel a lot.
Top 10 forgotten things you notice when you arrive at your hotel in Bangkok. No. 10 says “passport”. Wondering how that gentleman got through Schiphol and Suvanaphum. Numbers 1 (chargers, etc.) 6 (medicines) and 9 (electronics) can indeed be annoying (or expensive), the rest such as toiletries and a pair of slippers seem to me to be solved quickly locally.
Even no 11, forgetting your wife, should hardly cause any problems in Bangkok or Pattaya.
Ferdinand, ever heard of an emergency passport?
Have you ever applied for an emergency passport? 🙂
If you find out on time during office hours and at home, there is still something to arrange. But if you are at the airport an hour or two hours before departure, that can be extremely difficult.
In any case, you must have the following documents:
-Excerpt from GBA
-Other form of identification
-Copy of official report in the event of a missing person
-passport photograph
I once found out that my passport was missing while I was packing for a flight to Houston in the early hours of Monday morning. Quickly searched for the possibility of an emergency document. Left for Schiphol on Sunday night, reported a missing person there, brought a driver's license for identification, a passport photo, but it can also be arranged there. If you only have an extract from the GBA, how on earth did you get it. In the end, the Marechaussee was able to arrange something with a few phone calls here and there, but according to the rules you have to come up with it yourself. So very friendly because they could also have said just sort it out. A few stressful hours later an emergency passport and could fly to Houston the next morning.
If you have 'forgotten' the excuse, I don't know if they are that easy with providing an emergency document.
If you feel in your inside pocket at the check-in desk just before departure and your passport turns out to be at home, then I think you have very little chance of catching your flight, unless you live close to Schiphol 🙂
Ferdinand,
Just look at programs such as “Airport” or similar, then you will see how often people arrive at the airport without or with an expired passport.
They usually leave their passport at home, so as not to forget it, and discover at the airport that it is indeed still waiting at home on a cupboard or table.
Even noticed that they have the wrong passport. For example, they sometimes have the passport of the person staying at home with them.
The consequences are panicky telephone calls to the person at home, family, neighbors or friends and hellish taxi or car rides that run out of time.
The hug of the children is at the top of my mind. The little kids are completely upset the first few nights.
Foreign. My first time Thailand did not forget anything. Not on any of my vacation trips. Except for a trip. Trip to my native Suriname.. forgot to leave my mother there :)
I always say with a passport and a credit card you can go around the world.
Everything else, clothes, toothbrushes, phones and chargers, sunglasses etc you name it all can be bought locally.
When I fly to Thailand I usually only have a few kilos of luggage with me. Some clothes, and my laptop in my hand luggage. Nothing else. I sometimes see people with mega suitcases, worry whether they are under that 23 KG. I usually wonder what on earth you have to carry around to get to that 23 KG 🙂
The same applies the other way around, trunks filled with bottles of nam pla, all kinds of food, Buddhist attributes and various other trinkets that are carried along.
Have experienced several times with couples who stood in line in front of me that they opened the suitcase to add or remove something to meet the required weight.
A fleeting glance was enough to see that the suitcases were filled with which a store shelf of the AH can be richly supplied.
Nowadays, almost (almost) everything is also available locally in the Netherlands.
For just a holiday, you only need a bank card(s), passport, some clothing, chargers, etc. But if your partner lives / lived in the other country, you will sometimes take all kinds of things with you for a one-way trip: old / new clothing, products that are not (easy) to buy in the other country, gifts (syrup waffles for the Thai, clothes for the Dutch) etc. so that you still have an overfull suitcase back and forth, which you can quickly empty after arrival so that you only have a few kilos to carry during your stay.
Dear people,
Number 1 is always your passport without a passport you will not get anywhere !!!!
Number 2: credit cards – money and travel insurance
Number 3: drugs
Rest is for sale. For people, sometimes the phone is more important than their passport
When I went on holiday to Thailand, 23 kilos was far too little, 5 jars of peanut butter, 2 Edam cheeses, chocolate, different types of sprinkles, stroopwafels, etc. To make my family who lives there happy and that is certainly a drag. The happy faces make up for a lot.
Edam cheese and Chocolate (van Houten, Milka) are easy to obtain in Thailand. I always take 2 kilos of liquorice with me. My Thai friends think that, after first hesitant tasting, it is very tasty.