The 10 Worst Travellers You Will Meet on Your Adventures

This traveller may pride themselves on being an easy, no-fuss traveller but for one thing: they often need your everything….They are that traveller who forgot their toothpaste, didn’t pack a warmer jacket, or bring enough coin to fund the trip’s meals or activities. What they essentially do is outsource all that ‘stressy’ trip-planning to their more responsible companions, who actually plan their packing out thoughtfully. But be careful, because you also don’t want to be an over-packer...this is no better.

Sigh...this traveller is married to their socials and has an image to maintain, first and foremost. Real life, in-the-moment experiences are secondary to the semblance of these experiences. If you’ve been saddled with one of these travellers, leave. Chances are, they won’t even notice you are gone. And this way, you need not be sucked into their vortex of self-involvement.

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This is one of the more common worst traveller tropes, as transportation can often prove unreliable. Still, this is the traveller doing the shimmy of shame, past all the seats long-since filled with others who made sure to be on time. You might have even heard an airport-wide final boarding call for this person.

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You know the cliche...They came to party, and everybody knows it. They treat the host destination and its people like a personal wastebasket. They’re belligerent, always on the brink of black-out intoxicated, and generally show no regard for the kind of courtesy they’d expect of their own guests or in their own backyard. What happens in X, stays in X...

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The pseudo-travel guide talks as if they know more than a local, eager to impose all their hard homework, solicited or not. Pack noise-cancelling headphones.

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Never satisfied, this Goldie Locks traveller is the ultimate perma-complainer. The food is just not as good as home. The climate is too hot. Too cold. The environment too loud. Too boring. You get the idea. This traveller is likely the first one to be homesick and eager to return to their controlled environment. It’s a wonder they even bothered to leave their comfy confines.

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This schedule-obsessive buzzes from attraction to attraction, sightseeing their way through a flurry of social media-friendly tourist traps. They don’t really bother to take in the full picture, only snippets that just as easily could have been gleaned from magazines. They may congregate in groups, moving around like a hive that you’ll want to steer clear of (hello shoulder season).

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Like the loud, drunk traveller, the “single-and-ready-to-mingle” traveller fancies themselves a social butterfly, whether or not their overtures are welcome. Keep a wide berth, be vocal, or have a buddy system with a trusted companion in place.

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This traveller is only there for the check-in and the post. The rest of the time, their nose is likely glued to their phone. Next.

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This traveller knows little beyond the stereotypes about the host destination, and worse, they may be regurgitating the cringe-worthy remarks in a completely oblivious manner. While they may think they’re expressing genuine wonder of how “they” may live differently, in reality, they are highlighting their own knowledge gaps and fish-out-of-water experience.

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