The most important errors visitors make in key environment metropolitan areas

“Attempting to stroll all-around Singapore is a huge miscalculation. Masking a length of even just a few of kilometers, which you would happily stroll in most metropolitan areas, and you can expect to end up drenched — both as a final result of the warmth or a tropical downpour. No subject if Google Maps reveals your place isn’t really much, consider a taxi or the MRT [Mass Rapid Transit] coach. They are both of those low-cost and blessedly air-conditioned.”

—Christian Barker, Australia

“New York is a wide place with a litany of choices, and that will make any tourist’s time in the metropolis precious. Unfortunately, I have uncovered lots of guests — particularly initial-timers — try to squeeze as well considerably into just one vacation. They dash from their Midtown resort to stroll throughout the Brooklyn Bridge, then dart uptown to tour aspect of Central Park just before getting in a Broadway exhibit that evening.

“Alternatively of jam-packing an itinerary for 12 hours each working day, I advocate choosing a handful of sights to investigate. And depart some unscheduled blocks of time due to the fact those ‘only-in-New-York’ times you’ve got listened to about are virtually normally unplanned.

“For occasion, really don’t try to see the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building and Metropolitan Museum of Art in just one day. You can expect to be so fatigued — you would not value any of it. Instead, make the trek to Lady Liberty and then cruise to close by Ellis Island and its immigration museum. Or devote a day to Central Park and the surrounding neighborhoods. The park is brimming with magnificence in every single nook and cranny of its 840 acres. 

“Recall, New York is not going any place. The metropolis will be completely ready and ready to welcome you back.”

—Tracy Kaler, United States

“I’ve been nesting in Jamaica the final 6 months and vacationed here lots of moments about the previous 20 several years. Now that I’ve spent time below, I know how a lot I skipped — and how a lot vacationers miss.

“So numerous appear to the island and hardly undertaking further than their all-inclusive vacation resort or adhere to whichever tours the resort is advertising and marketing. Weighty sigh. Jamaica is the variety of location where by you should really go off script. You haven’t experienced the true Jamaica, if you have not long gone to a seaside that only locals know about, or if your sampling of Jamaica delicacies is constrained to the common jerk chicken or pork. Try out a restaurant outside the hotel and the tourist zone.

“Dunn’s Rivers Falls is high-quality, but there are stunning falls where by there are no crowds. Negril and Montego Bay get all the press but make your way off the overwhelmed keep track of to Portland. Jamaica is comprehensive of secrets and techniques. Do a minor digging just before your journey, whether it’s from your social media teams or friends of close friends. Discover an insider to give you the skinny.”

—Sheryl Nash-Nance, United States

“Stroll all-around Melbourne metropolis at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning, and you could question if aliens experienced abducted most of the inhabitants overnight. The temptation when traveling is to pack the daylight hours, but mounting early is not a thing Melburnians do, unless their employment dictate it.

“The only people today at museums and galleries at 10 a.m. are family members with minor young children. As a substitute, we have a tendency to stack the other stop of the day, assembly afterwards — brunch need to in no way start out before 1 p.m. — heading to the footy [football match], lingering in excess of meal, meeting for beverages, then perhaps going to see a demonstrate. It is not uncommon for a headline act at a pub … to hit the stage at midnight.

“If you got up at 7 a.m. and jammed the working day with actions, you happen to be not producing it to the encore. Chill out, snooze in and make positive you get to see the very best of Melbourne — she shines right after darkish.”

—Carrie Hutchinson, Australia

“I’ve lived in Hong Kong since 2005 and numerous international initially-time website visitors still believe it is really mainly a concrete jungle, while it can be really built up of 261 islands. There are breathtaking distant hikes, seashores to rival the Cote d’Azur, cascading waterfalls, jungle-clad temples and terrific snorkeling places … there’s so substantially additional listed here than skyscrapers.”

—Chris Dwyer, United Kingdom  

“Hong Kong was my expat house for 20 a long time. I normally questioned why readers — be it travellers or organization travelers — lessened the metropolis to a shopping and dining paradise. The ‘Pearl of the Orient’ has got so a lot additional to offer. It just requires tourists to hop on the MTR [Mass Transit Railway] or a minibus and get out into a person of the numerous nation parks.

“Following a extended time living in the city, I took up sea kayaking to get a refreshing and various viewpoint of the spot. There’s a lot far more for tourists to discover, find out and appreciate.”

—Petra Loho, Austria

“Bangkok’s name as one particular of the world’s most incredible culinary locations is mainly launched on its possibilities for hawker food items. Avenue ‘chefs’ produce a wonderful array of Thai foodstuff classics, whipping up every little thing from Chinese-impressed stir-fries to spicy salads, pungent curries and grilled meats.

“Even with the fame of the street eating scene, some site visitors are squeamish about the hygiene requirements at these venues. They needn’t be. Any hawker stall value its prik nam pla — fish sauce infused with blindingly scorching bird’s eye chilis — will have freshly cooked foodstuff.

“Seem out for extended traces of local diners, and you can expect to know that you are onto a great thing.”

—Duncan Forgan, United Kingdom