12 Recommendations for Traveling Hungover
by Alyssa Ramos
We’ve all been there — inconveniently hungover on the morning that you’re supposed to be traveling. It sucks. A lot. But it’s not like you’re just going to rearrange your social life so you can be bright eyed and bushy tailed on your flight the subsequent morning! You have to cheers with ALL of your close friends, several occasions, just before you don’t get to see them for practically one complete week!
Possibly that’s not the exact case for absolutely everyone, but regardless, traveling hungover nevertheless sucks and is bound to happen at one point in your life, so you may well as properly prepare for it.
Plus, you get automatic sympathy just by reading this, given that I am at present 30,000 feet in the air with a hangover level of “I’m dying”, a vomiting and now-drugged Pomeranian, broken wifi, and only a couple of sips of my “hair-of-the-dog” wine left. So no matter what…I really feel your pain.
Right here are some suggestions to stay away from feeling how I presently do:
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1. Take Dramamine
You know how Dramamine prevents and cures motion sickness? You know how you sort of really feel like you have motion sickness when you’re hungover? Connect the dots. Dramamine eases your hangover, and at the quite least, prevents it from finding worse even though your traveling. An added bonus is that it tends to make you sleepy, so you can just pass out as quickly as you’re on the plane and sleep the hangover away. Yay.
2. Drink Pedialyte, Gatorade, or Resqwater
If you don’t currently have a stash of Pedialyte somewhere, go get some, and you’re welcome. You’re hungover simply because drinking dehydrates you and steals all of your electrolytes…just like what takes place to babies when they have vomiting and diarrhea. Gross. Restoring electolytes sort of helps…but not straight away, so really feel cost-free to skip to the a lot more practical, instant options.
3. Retain Drinking.
I don’t care what any one thinks, if you’re at the level of hungover where you’re contemplating changing your flight, you want to just have one more drink. Frequently referred to as, the “hair-of-the-dog” trick, take a drink of whatever you have been drinking the night before…no matter how terrible it may possibly sound at the moment. It performs.
4. DO NOT Sit in the Back Seat
Even if you’ve accomplished the above three ideas, riding in the back seat to the airport can and WILL make your hangover 2 million times worse. Yes, it’s odd sitting in the front seat of an Uber, but it’s way significantly less odd than feeling like you’re going to vomit in the TSA line.
5. DO NOT Book an Early Flight
What ever, you get to where you’re going sooner, but let’s be serious…there is absolutely nothing exciting about an early flight. Disregard this if you’re a morning individual and/or not hungover. There’s a excellent opportunity you’re not going to know you’re hungover till you wake up at an un-godly hour to get ready for your flight. Then after you understand how shitty you feel, it’s going to be a tad bit difficult to function, especially when you likely haven’t completely completed packing. If you can support it….don’t book an early flight. Just don’t.
6. Pack The Hangover Essentials
You know you immediately shove shades on your face when you’re hungover, so don’t overlook them when you’re traveling hungover. You have to have them. You also need headphones…preferably the noise-cancelling ones that drown out the lady talking non-quit behind you, or god-forbid the infant that won’t cease vocalizing how she actually feels about her ears popping at the high altitude. She’s so cute tho.
7. Don’t Chew Gum
Certain, chewing gum might do a thing advantageous when you’re flying, like remedy your atrocious alcohol breath, but the minty scent, taste, and over-functioning of your face muscle tissues will only add to your currently existing headache and nausea. Consume a cracker instead. Preferably with a side of wine.
[[PAUSE]] Something awesome just happened. As I wrote ‘preferably with a side of wine’ the flight attendant brought me the massive-kid sized bottle of wine (that I ordered anyway but the computer systems are down on the flight) and stated “It’s your birthday this week”. AKA free wine for me! …and it genuinely is nearly my birthday. January 4th, create it down.8. Keep away from Action Motion pictures
Watching an action movie or show whilst you’re traveling hungover is just like asking to vomit on the plane. It’s shaky, there’s a lot of stuff to appear at, it’s vibrant, there’s just a lot of clear causes not to do it. Watch Frozen or something instead.
9. Steer clear of Reading At All Charges
Clearly I have to be receiving paid well if I’m going against my own assistance and writing this although I’m hungover and traveling, suitable? Wrong. I’m two Chardonnays deep, and still battling against my hangover to write this out of the goodness of my heart. I did nonetheless lock my telephone in my purse in the course of the Uber ride right here, figuring out damn well that reading my text messages would make me really feel way worse. You may perhaps not notice it, but reading when you’re in motion contributes to your already-current feeling of shittiness. Specially if you’re in the back seat.
10. Dress Like You’re Important
Do you know who doesn’t get weird, judgmental looks when they’re that guy/girl who is obviously hungover at the airport and drinking on the plane at 10am? The hungover guy/girl who looks so fabulous that they have to be vital or renowned, thus making it acceptable to be in such a state of borderline debauchery. Looking like a million bucks = potentially feeling like a million bucks. See my Flight Etiquette Guide if you need to have a lot more support with that one.
11. Try to Prepare Ahead of Time
Your brain isn’t going to want to figure out how and exactly where to get your ticket, go via safety, and make the property-stretch to your window-seat-cave whilst you’re hungover. It has substantially extra vital things to be concerned about, like if you’re going to throw up in public or even make your flight. This is why on the way to the airport, you really should make certain you have your ID and credit card in your pocket or purse so you can use the self verify-in kiosks to get your ticket then conveniently whip out each to show safety. Hint: you want to make as tiny human interaction as possible.
Also make certain you have the right flight quantity, airline, terminal, time, and so forth. so you don’t freak out when you can’t come across it when you’re trying to get from Bangkok to Australia. I imply….to wherever you’re going.
12. Go To The Bathroom
No, I am not trying to sound like your mother. But I am guilty of staying cooped up in my window-seat-cave for too lengthy out of worry that people today will notice how hungover slash re-drunk I am. I also am maintaining tame a dormant dragon-Pomeranian who is nestled at my feet just after a ferocious battle to get him into his man-cave (dog carrier). This will only result in me finding extra drunk and uncomfortable, which is why you need to study from my errors and get up to stretch your legs slash check out how those hangover eyes are hunting prior to you de-board. Trust me. It’s not a very good look.
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