7 DUMB Ways People WASTE Their Vacation

0:00 hey there fellow Travelers Mark here with Walter's worldle and today we're here in Stockholm Sweden and today we're going to talk about our kind of dumb ways that people waste their vacation and honestly a lot of it starts with your sleeping habits that is if you're sleeping in every day of your vacation you are wasting your vacation that's if your vacation's about going to explore if your vacation about literally sleeping in and doing nothing then it's

0:23 totally fine but the thing is if you sleep in if you over sleep every day and instead of getting out at 8 or 9:00 in the morning you're getting out at noon or 1 or 2:00 in the afternoon that's one or two less museums you can go see that's one or two less sites you can see because most museums are closing at 5:00 in the afternoon some close at 4:00 sconsin over here the outdoor Museum that's fantastic right now while I'm

0:47 here it closes at 400 in the afternoon like if you sleep in and don't get out till 2: you miss it right so that's why I tell people like hey get up and go get up and go if you get tired go to bed early so you get more sleep that way cuz honestly that's how you out of seeing the cultural side of things because you're sleeping and you're missing it and don't even get me started about some

1:05 of the great breakfast buffets you miss out on but that could just be my uh personal opinion on that one um I think another kind of way people waste their vacation or at least waste time on their vacation is when they stay too far away from the center just to save a little money cuz here's the thing if you're saving $45 a night but you have an hour commute to come in or a 45 minute train

1:28 ride to come in for for example you're going to stay out at pot you're going to Berlin you're going to stay out in potam it's a 45 minute esbon ride to get into town like certain parts of Berlin now it's 45 minutes in 45 minutes out that's an hour and a half of your day that you're sitting in a train going bum bum bum bum bum bu bum bum bum bum is that really worth saving the 4550 EUR per

1:50 night that's I mean it could be up to you but think about how is your time valued because you're losing so much time in transit that if you think about if you stayed someplace for five days you did that and you're losing an hour every day that's five hours and five hours of sight scene what more could you have seen that's like two or three more really good museums right that you're missing out on so that's something you

2:14 kind of got to think about also that Transit time means well you might be missing out on dinner because to get back before the train or the bus or the tram stops you might have to be back earlier so you're not getting a chance to eat the nicer restaurants cuz you're out in the BBS now another way I see people wasting their vacation time and this is only a little bit of vacation time is um sticking too much with the

2:34 free walking tours now I do not begrudge people for going on free walking tours they're really good to give you an idea of the city but what I've seen over the years is those free walking tours they start with the big stuff like oh here's the really big site you want to see here's the site like here in Stockholm they'd be like oh well here's the Royal Palace and here's the Oldtown and then they wander more and the thing is when

2:55 you do that if you stick with it too long like really do you need a three-hour free walking tour her maybe the first hour is good don't be afraid to peel off and save yourself that other hour or two of walking around and going and do something else you got the main sites in already and I've been on some of these tours where they take you by places where they're getting commissions for getting people to buy stuff and that

3:16 kind of sucks cuz remember you kind of get what you pay for and it's a free walking tour if you get what I mean also I have seen a lot of the free walking tours it's not always locals that are giving them I was on a tour in Savannah Georgia and the person was from New York City and their information was so wrong that I literally had to hold Joselyn back from her like ripping her hair out

3:36 from it so just know the free walking tours they can be helpful but don't stick with them too long and talking about sticking with something too long another way I see people waste their time on vacation is waiting in a long line to get that perfect Instagram picture you know it's when there's like the wings on the wall or maybe it's the buoy in Key West where people just I got to get this picture just with me and

3:59 they'll literally wait line for 30 minutes 40 minutes an hour just to get that one picture does it really matter does anyone care that much no why waste all that time you know what I do I actually just kind of walk by it and there's people back there and I just do my little selfie or have my picture with those people in the background there's this thing called AI that will take them out by the way so you don't have to wait

4:19 but I don't care if people are in the background I mean do you care that I don't have just me in the pictures no not at all and that's the thing is you're wasting time you're missing out on doing vacation stuff stuff cuz you're just waiting there it's like when you go to Disney you just like wait in line you wait in line and you wait in line it's not really a fun way to spend your

4:37 vacation and another waiting kind of thing where I see people waste time on their vacation is when they wait to get into that perfect restaurant that famous restaurant yes honey let's wait for 3 hours outside so we can get into the IT restaurant well here's the thing if you ever watch our videos I never tell you what restaurants to go to I tell you the food you should eat in different cities different countries so you can find a

4:58 place that has that because honestly there are some really fantastic restaurants in the world that it is worth waiting 3 hours for but when you're on vacation you're doing that too many times eh is it really that much better is it 3 hours of waiting better than the restaurant maybe across the street that doesn't have the line I see this a lot in the uh the bardane effect or you know Diners Drive-Ins and Dives effect however you want to call it where

5:19 people saw it on TV so I have to get that exact thing at the exact restaurant there's going to be other options so just be open to those things to other restaurants that have similar food to the ones you want to have there now another way you might be was your vacation time is actually before you even go on your vacation and that is if you don't plan at least have a rough plan of what you want to do on your

5:38 vacation because I'm here in Stockholm and so I knew before I came here what did I want to see I want to go to the Royal Palace I want to go to sconsin I want to get back to the Vasa Museum and I want to just walk around the old town I already had my idea down right and so when I got here I was at the airport I grabbed the map Circle the things so I'm

5:53 I'm progressing through now if I didn't have any plans before and I didn't do any research I'd get here and they like hey what should I see what should I do and I'd be spending all my time trying to figure out what I should do when I'm here so instead of being here filming or or walking through the town I'm back in the hotel figuring out what do we need to do today honey what are we going to

6:11 do and so you waste time that way so try to at least get a rough plan of your trip ready before you go so then you kind of have it you can like hit the ground running versus trying to figure out what you're going to do each day oh and and there's another way we waste time when we travel and this is kind of going back to that you know getting the the the perfect you know the picture in

6:28 front of the whatever the wing or whatever um it's also spending too much time trying to get the perfect Instagram pick anywhere you know you've seen the people that literally are standing there for 30 minutes taking I don't know 100 200 Instagram shots just to make sure they get the right one they give it to their friend no no do it again no no do it again look why why are you doing that no one cares nobody cares nobody cares

6:50 okay I'm an influencer I'm telling you nobody cares okay just do this this is what I recommend you do take two or maybe three because here's what happened you take two pictures one is good one is bad you take three pictures one is good one is bad one is okay and then you walk away and I just saved you a half an hour of getting that right how do I want to do this right and so think about it I mean it sounds silly

7:15 but these little things add up over a trip and I've seen it because I've taken college students around and see them do these things and I'm like you just spent 45 minutes trying to get the perfect shot and you weren't happy with any of them so you might just taken two and walked away and I still remember once two was like that's a great idea I'm like you're welcome it really changed their vacation they were very or their

7:35 vacation their study abroad trip because it really saved a lot of time for [Music] him now another more serious thing I think when it comes to uh wasting vacation time is when people just don't take their PTO they don't take their vacation time I mean I know my dad my dad when retired had like 5 years of vacation time left cuz he didn't take the vacation time look I'm going to tell you right now you die your boss is going

8:04 to fill your position within two weeks and they're just going to go on with themselves so why not take your PTO take that time off go spend it with your family go travel see places like Stockholm go to places like Rwanda go places all over the US go visit your family like use your vacation time because you know what your boss doesn't care if you get to take it or not they're happy if you don't take CU they

8:24 hey more work for you more work done yay we're making more money not you you'll still get the same Sally but whatever but that's the thing is don't waste it you have that chance to spend the holidays if you can schedule to around other holidays to get more days off so you can go out and enjoy life and that's one of the big things don't waste your PTO I mean that's one thing I see my buddies like what are you saving it for

8:47 like what are you saving it for go go and enjoy your vacation enjoy your life enjoy your family go see the friend you haven't seen forever heck I'm flying over to see my brother-in-law and laugh you CU I'm like you know what I got a couple extra days let's go see him right so do that that's going to make things a bit better and then there's this one this is where I see a lot when it

9:05 becomes a friends vacation and this is doing someone else's vacation look it's your vacation time you should do what you want to do you know how many times have you heard people say oh me and my 10 best friends went traveling and it was the greatest vacation ever yeah not many people say that after the age of like 25 just because your friends think it's going to be a good idea to have a good group trip doesn't mean you need to

9:27 go honestly don't feel like you're to be pressured to do your vacation with other people you can do a solo vacation you can do just a a coup's vacation or just with a kid's vacation or take the grandkids with you whatever you want to do do that because it's your vacation time and the thing is if you're going to do these group trips you know what happens like with cruises everybody on the cruises problem is your problem well

9:49 if you go on a you know big group trip with your buddies all their problems are your problems and we all have that friend that brings the drama right so do the tri you want instead of waste your vacation doing someone else's vacation okay now these are just some ways I've seen people waste their vacation time over the years what are some things you've seen put it down in the comments below so we can help other Travelers not

10:12 waste their vacation anyway I wish you all the best I'll say bye from here in Stockholm Suite