As you prepare for your next beach vacation, it is wise to learn from the hard won lessons of summers past. Increase your chances of a successful getaway by avoiding some of these pitfalls below!
- No sunscreen. Many people have been sidelined quickly with the red burn of regret while watching others frolic with their layers of zinc slathered armor in front of them.
- Dehydration. Vacationers discovered that the combination of unlimited alcoholic beverages plus hot sun exposure result in a trip to the ER. Water is a friend that you should remember while on vacation. Being a raisin isn’t a good summer look.
- Ditched beach wagon. Your will to live at the end of the hot, long beach day will be severely tested. Add an extra 15lbs of beach gear and an overtired kid that you have to carry 4 blocks back to your hotel? Just no.
- No beach shower. Its no fun dragging in layers of sand to get all over the floor, the couch or your stuff. Choose a vacation home with an outdoor beach shower that can blast the sand out of all of your cracks like a decontamination unit. Trust us.
- Pre-vacation diet. Starving yourself before showing up to a beachside resort known for rich foods, that make angels weep, is not a good move. You will be bloated and hating life within 24 hours and those pounds you ditched will be hugging you hello again.
- Eating or drinking before boardwalk rides. It should be self explanatory to any sane person not to eat before you go on a roller coaster that will juggle your intestines. Yet it still happens.
- Bringing relatives that you hate with you. Many mega-fights have started due being trapped in a beach house with annoying people, who should’ve never been invited to begin with. Save yourself the effort of figuring out how to cover up a murder and leave them home.
- Splitting the bill. Sort yourselves out before vacation and figure out who is paying for what. No food server wants to do calculus for a party of 8 and ruin their teenage personal promise of never needing ’said useless math’ in their lifetime.
- The hotel from hell. Its important you pick the proper place for your needs and a great location for your energy level and planned activities. Try a vacation home rather than a hotel next time!
- Telling your significant other “NO” while on vacation. Trust us, “a happy spouse means that you get to stay in the beach house.”
