Travel documents checklist
Do this one two weeks before you leave, not the night before: half the items here take days to fix and the other half cannot be fixed at all at the airport.
28 items
Makes your own editable copy. No account needed.
The items
- Passport or IDCheck the expiry now — many countries want six months beyond your return.
- Everyone travelling, including children
- Photo of each one saved in your email
- Entry requirements
- Visa or travel authorisation applied for
- Vaccination certificates, if required
- Proof of onward travel, if required
- Insurance
- Travel insurance bought and in date
- Policy number written where you can reach it offline
- European health card, if it applies
- Cover checked for anything adventurous you plan to do
- Bookings, downloaded not bookmarked
- Flights or train tickets
- Accommodation, with the address
- Car hire, with the driving licence it requires
- Airport transfers
- Money
- Bank told you are travelling, if yours still needs that
- Two cards, carried separately
- Some local cash for arrival
- Home while you are away
- Somebody has a key
- Pets and plants arranged
- Post held or collected
- Heating set so nothing freezes
- Emergency contacts written on paper
- Prescriptions, with enough for the whole trip plus a week
Makes your own editable copy. No account needed.
Questions people ask
- How long does my passport need to be valid?
- Many countries require six months beyond your return date, and some count from arrival. Check the destination's rule rather than the expiry date alone.
- What copies should I keep?
- A photo of the passport, the insurance policy and the tickets, in your email and on paper. Cloud storage is no help when the phone is what went missing.