Travel Hacks for Holiday Gifts

Travel Hacks for Holiday Gifts overview

When traveling during the holidays, consider shipping gifts home, using a hard-sided suitcase for safety, and investing in a collapsible duffel to manage returns efficiently.

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• If you’re celebrating the holidays away from home, getting holiday gifts to and from your destination can be a stressful part of that process.
• When deciding whether to pack, ship, check, or carry on those precious parcels, everyone has a different set of costs and inconveniences to consider – so we’ve put together some travel hacks to try no matter what route you choose to take.
• Wait to wrap gifts until you arrive at your destination.
• Wrapped gifts are technically allowed in carry-ons and checked luggage, but TSA often unwraps them if a bag is randomly selected for additional screening.
• Plus, packing around carefully wrapped presents is a good way to ensure squashed bows or torn tissue paper.
• If you can wait and wrap presents when you arrive at your destination, you’ll likely save yourself a lot of time and energy preparing to travel – and a lot of heartache when airport security rips into your parcel.
• Managing many holiday gifts – ones you give or receive – can be a challenge, especially if some are fragile or oddly shaped.
• Bringing a hard-sided suitcase instead of a soft-sided one or a duffel bag will boost your odds of everything arriving safely, especially if you end up checking a bag.
• Hard-sided suitcases can be made of everything from plastic to aluminum, so it’s a pretty safe bet to assume that your gifts will arrive in the condition in which you packed them.
• If you’re one of the coveted few who can travel carry-on only during the holidays, compare the cost of checking a bag just for gifts versus having them shipped straight to your destination.

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