Signs that you're traveling too much....
#136
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Formerly at PIT, now planted near MSP.
Programs: No flights since April 2019 (Medical Issues). Lost all my status.
Posts: 1,483
Being so familiar with the hotel room layout that you don't need to turn on the light to make your way to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
#137
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: AAdvantage, Skymiles
Posts: 156
Don't have near the credentials as a lot of you. But I'll add.
1) As a male, your pockets feel 'out of balance' when you're at home because you don't have your passport on you, or because the keys in your pocket belong to a vehicle and house you actually own.
2) At home, before shutting the door to your house as you walk out, you stop and check for your hotel key
1) As a male, your pockets feel 'out of balance' when you're at home because you don't have your passport on you, or because the keys in your pocket belong to a vehicle and house you actually own.
2) At home, before shutting the door to your house as you walk out, you stop and check for your hotel key
#138
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 361
another give away is when you get home and expect for your bathroom faucets to operate as the sensor touchless faucets like the ones we have at airport bath rooms and wonder if we need to call the plumbers for repair as you just put your hands down there and no water coming out
#139
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: BCN
Programs: IHG, M&M, FB, Avios, ALL, etc.
Posts: 928
Other signs I travel too much:
- When you realise that in every one of the last 4 years you've been to 25-30 countries, and the trend is looking upwards
- When this causes to renew both my passports every 3 or 4 years because there's no more room for stamps (no possibility of adding extra pages in Europe)
#140
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Portugal
Programs: *G, VS Silver, HH Diamond
Posts: 631
You never care when your passport expires because you're renewing it every 3 or 4 years now
Forget which country/city you're in regularly when waking up in the morning
Grocery shopping occurs at train stations/can live off of Pret for a day and a half/honestly cannot recall last time I cooked or someone cooked for me
I no longer buy toothpaste - travel sizes from amenity kits and hotels are perfect
Purposefully only wash hair in airports and hotels because they have far superior water pressure - which has lead to judging hotel quality by their showers
Immigration recognises you and asks how your Danish is coming along
Hotel key cards that don't have the name of the hotel on them are the devil
Forget which country/city you're in regularly when waking up in the morning
Grocery shopping occurs at train stations/can live off of Pret for a day and a half/honestly cannot recall last time I cooked or someone cooked for me
I no longer buy toothpaste - travel sizes from amenity kits and hotels are perfect
Purposefully only wash hair in airports and hotels because they have far superior water pressure - which has lead to judging hotel quality by their showers
Immigration recognises you and asks how your Danish is coming along
Hotel key cards that don't have the name of the hotel on them are the devil
#141
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: BWI,IAD,DCA
Programs: UA gold, Hyatt Plat Marriott silver,Hilton Gold, PC Plat., SPG Gold.,Hertz Gold, Global Entry
Posts: 650
When you walk into a bar (not in your hometown) and the bartender fixes your favorite cocktail without asking.
When you get into your rental car and you start setting the radio dials to your favorite stations as you already know them.
When you get into your rental car and you start setting the radio dials to your favorite stations as you already know them.
#147
Join Date: Nov 2016
Programs: UA*S, AA Plat, HH Diamond, Bonvoy Gold, Hyatt Explorist
Posts: 256
I do it all the time and fellow friends who are (unfortunately?) not frequent travelers don't really mind it for most of the destinations, Canadian airports exempted
Just happened to me recently - hitting the same immigration officer on entry & exit! He even makes an extra favor of finding a very crowded page and stamping there instead to save pages.
Just happened to me recently - hitting the same immigration officer on entry & exit! He even makes an extra favor of finding a very crowded page and stamping there instead to save pages.
#149
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: SJC/SFO
Programs: WN A+ CP, UA 1MM/*A Gold, Mar LT Tit, IHG Plat, HH Dia
Posts: 6,286
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I find it works best when the airport code is also a common abbreviation for the city's name-- SEA, SLC, DEN, to name a few. It works less well in cities where there are multiple airports or the airport code does not represent the city's name. "I'm looking forward to a week at MDW," said no one, ever.
There are some exceptions to the airport-name-is-similar-to-the-city-name principle. SFO is one. "Looking for restaurants suggestions for my trip to SFO!" is a common ask in my neck of the woods. But the answers are completely different depending on whether the asker is a) in SFO Airport, b) staying at one of the several large, conference oriented hotels next to the airport, or c) visiting San Francisco proper.
As for "You Know You Travel Too Much When"... you make pedantic arguments about airport codes like the above.
There are some exceptions to the airport-name-is-similar-to-the-city-name principle. SFO is one. "Looking for restaurants suggestions for my trip to SFO!" is a common ask in my neck of the woods. But the answers are completely different depending on whether the asker is a) in SFO Airport, b) staying at one of the several large, conference oriented hotels next to the airport, or c) visiting San Francisco proper.
As for "You Know You Travel Too Much When"... you make pedantic arguments about airport codes like the above.