Our trip is a couple of months away and as I stack up the reservations and ticket purchases I started to wonder which was preferred and or accepted - showing tickets with bar codes/QR codes from your phone or printing things out. While I will likely print everything I can out before we leave, just to have back-ups, I imagine there might be a few things we book while on the go and since we are mostly staying in AirBnBs and B&Bs, I don't know that we'll always have easy access to a printer. Am I over thinking this?
Posted by
Sonoma
66 posts
For our trip in May we had everything printed and organized in a nice folder. Which we left on the counter… Luckily I had archived all the emails on my phone so we ended up doing everything off my phone and it worked fine for museums and churches in Florence, Rome, and Siena. Also for ferries.
Posted by
San Diego, California
5649 posts
You can take screen shots of the tickets and barcodes, eliminating the need for having the cell data feature turned on to access the tickets.
Safe travels!
Posted by
Sonoma
66 posts
I added ours to “Notes” on my iphone. My wife did the same in case my phone failed.
Posted by
Sapulpa, OK, USA
6552 posts
I'm with bobbo22. I printed everything out (I want to touch the tickets and know they're real!) but often just showed our phone.
Posted by
Tresana, Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
23642 posts
At 80 and an accountant, I am really old school. Back up paper. We have everything on the iphone and ipad plus all paper. Now my iphone has always worked but ... still ..... I like back up.
Posted by
Western Canada
3514 posts
I make paper copies, but I also take screen shots of every single document, ticket and booking form.
That way you don’t need to worry about using up data or needing wifi to show your docs on a screen to anyone, or to be scanned.
Belt and braces.
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12 posts
I printed out everything for our upcoming trip and put it in a folder.
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83 posts
I printed everything, and its in a folder, but I have our itinerary in a Microsoft Word doc, with links to all of our tours, tickets, confirmations, even dinner reservations. So if I leave the folder on the counter, we'll be OK.
Posted by
Chicago
8179 posts
I use a combination of paper and apps (when booking on the go) to show tickets or reservations. I download tickets to my phone using my hotel or the ubiquitous Starbucks cafe location WiFi.
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16 posts
I print everything out. However, I also place it all in google drive and make it available offline. Then you dont need to have internet to see the documents.
Posted by
OP
33 posts
Thank you all! 🙂 I feel better knowing that having back-ups is wise (and my plan) but that if we end up purchasing app-based tickets on the go we'll probably be fine flashing our phone. You're the best!
Posted by
Cape Ann, Massachusetts
3347 posts
I print everything as back up. I save my tickets in my iBooks.