Packing that something "extra" that you'd recommend

[Andrea J.]

hand sanitizer!! yes great flpctc.
during covid shortages we began making our own

1 pack of baby bum wipes........ open it up and add 1/4 cup of 70% or stronger isopropyl alcohol.
we keep a pack in our car which we use often
in our carry on bag
in my pocketbook aka pockabook
in our golf cart
in our pool/beach bags

also too
the Aruba Aloe Aloe gel...we add about 2 oz of the alcohol to the Aloe Gel and use it for hand sanitizer.

defective ...love that

All items listed already and I would add extra hand sanitizers. You can get them here but I use some as soon as I get to where I'm going to clean!
A wet paper towel with hand sanitizer to clean everything before unpacking anything.

[flpctc]

Love that Andrea and of course I need some alcohol wipes for my "pockabook" too.

hand sanitizer!! yes great flpctc.
during covid shortages we began making our own

1 pack of baby bum wipes........ open it up and add 1/4 cup of 70% or stronger isopropyl alcohol.
we keep a pack in our car which we use often
in our carry on bag
in my pocketbook aka pockabook
in our golf cart
in our pool/beach bags

also too
the Aruba Aloe Aloe gel...we add about 2 oz of the alcohol to the Aloe Gel and use it for hand sanitizer.

[Traceyd14]

Yeti-style 32oz water jug to take on the beach, it takes up a lot of space but it is worth it to keep ice cold water with us on the beach.
Bookbag style cooler - doubles as a personal item to pack stuff for the plane.
Ziploc bags - a few of the gallon size ones - we always use them for something - snacks on the beach, ice for drinks, wet bathing suit
noise cancelling ear buds - for the plane, or annoying people at the beach, or snoring husbands
band-aids - it really sucks to need one and not have them.

[roak4ever]

I always bring a champagne bottle stopper (not that the bottles often last for more than 1 day!), some chip clips and zip lock baggies.

[DiviDiviFan]

Neosporin cream, searched high and low many years ago with no luck. Also benadryl, sometimes in Aruba I break out in a itchy rash most likely from too much sun. This past year the hotel store had it behind the counter and sold a couple of pills in the blister pack to me for $5, at that point I would have paid anything and it worked. I now have added it to my excel packing list.

[cpjones]

A few extra days of prescription meds......just in case!

[crimms]

Great posts! We forgot about some important little items to bring.
Thanks Sean and Susan

[robin]

A battery pack to charge phones or computers if the power goes out and you are low. This is a new item I am adding after this week's outage and we both had low batteries on our computers and I on my phone we use in Aruba.

[Andrea J.]

good idea Robin.
we have a small one that we bring with us on vacation.
it is the size of a deck of cards.
it won't charge a computer as it does not take a 120 plug, but will take iPad and iPhone charge cords!
this is the one we have. https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Char...9&sr=8-16&th=1
there was a power outage we tried to sleep thru when we were at bananas and it was impossible due to it being so hot.
we went out and sat/dozed in the car for a couple of hrs...air co blasting.

A battery pack to charge phones or computers if the power goes out and you are low. This is a new item I am adding after this week's outage and we both had low batteries on our computers and I on my phone we use in Aruba.

[Colette M]

good idea Robin.
we have a small one that we bring with us on vacation.
it is the size of a deck of cards.
it won't charge a computer as it does not take a 120 plug, but will take iPad and iPhone charge cords!
this is the one we have. https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Char...9&sr=8-16&th=1
there was a power outage we tried to sleep thru when we were at bananas and it was impossible due to it being so hot.
we went out and sat/dozed in the car for a couple of hrs...air co blasting.

This is great. Thanks Andrea. I took a screenshot - the only thing is we need to upgrade our iPhones very soon and will get one of the 14 models. The description on this indicates it is compatible with the 13 series and below. Maybe the brand has another model that will work with the 14’s?