8 Worst Travel Mistakes We’ve Made in 2.5 Years of Full-Time Travel

Name: 8 Worst Travel Mistakes We’ve Made in 2.5 Years of Full-Time Travel
Uploaded: 2026-10-22T12:06:57+00:00
Duration: 37 min 9 s
Channel: Lloyd & Mandy

00:00hey guys welcome back to another video if you're watching this chances are you've

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00:11down below so obviously I am recording this solo today as we're about to do a

00:18really big travel day tomorrow and I wanted to get this video out before we

00:21leave Mandy's not feeling too good she's about halfway through her pregnancy now

00:25and she has her ups and downs so I'm giving her the day off today and I'm

00:30filming this video on my own but in today's video I'm gonna be sharing with

00:34you guys some of the worst travel mistakes we've made as full-time

00:39travelers over the last two and a half years and the reason I'm doing that is

00:42because I think a lot of our content gets a little bit misconstrued while we try to

00:48show everything from the ups and downs the positives and negatives as much as

00:53possible sometimes when you watch from the outside looking in it seems like

00:58everything is just perfect and we're just on this non-stop holiday and nothing

01:02ever goes wrong which isn't really the case and I'm sharing this stuff with you

01:07today because hopefully you can learn from our mistakes this isn't to be

01:11negative at all like we look back on all of this and kind of laugh I'm of the

01:15opinion that a mistake is only a bad thing if you don't learn from it as long as

01:19you're learning from it then I think it's a positive so I'm gonna go ahead and

01:23share with you all the top mistakes we've made over the last two and a half

01:27years make sure you stay tuned to the end because this one is quite a crazy

01:32story which I wasn't even sure if I was gonna share this with you guys because

01:36of how crazy it is but I think I will all right let's start off with number one we

01:42actually briefly went into this on a recent video and this happened about six

01:48months ago actually here in Thailand in Hua Hin we were staying in an Airbnb on the

01:53beach for the first month when we got here as we were kind of deciding whether

01:56or not to live here we rented this really nice Airbnb in sort of a service

02:03department complex it was on the beach very good the Airbnb host couldn't have

02:09been any nicer and more welcoming so I do not want to bash this Airbnb at all it

02:16was completely not the host's fault but while we're staying there it was towards the

02:20end of our month I think it was the last few days and we'd built up a little bit

02:24of a rapport with some of the like cleaners and maintenance guys who were

02:29working there and we're saying hello to them like every day as just in passing

02:33like being polite and they're all very very nice so one day we noticed there was

02:38quite a big leak coming from the roof in our bathroom and it was dripping down

02:42onto the floor it was coming through the roof so I didn't want the Airbnb owner to

02:46get any water damage so I let him know that hey there's a leak you may want to

02:50get this looked at like I wasn't complaining at all it's just like you

02:53know trying to help him out and he said no worries I will let the complex

02:57maintenance guys know and they'll come and take a look at it and so a couple of

03:02hours later we actually got a knock on the door as we were just heading out for

03:05lunch we were sort of working all morning filming stuff in this hotel and we're

03:11about to head out for lunch so the two maintenance guys who we already knew asked if

03:15they could come in and take a look at the leak and I said yeah no problems at

03:18all but we are just heading across the road to grab a quick bite to eat we'll

03:22only be gone for 20 minutes or so you can go into the bathroom have a look at the

03:27leak as long as you lock the door behind you should be no problems this was a

03:31one-bedroom unit so we just had all of our computers camera all our like passports

03:39and bags and everything in the bedroom we shut the bedroom door and they brought in

03:43their ladder and started doing their work well I only got about maybe 50 steps

03:48from the Airbnb when I checked my pocket and realized I'd left my wallet back in

03:53the room so I walked back into the room and as I open the door the first thing I

03:58could see was that our bedroom door was open and as I went into the bedroom to get

04:03my wallet one of the maintenance guys was standing there with our camera that I'm

04:08filming this on right now scrolling through all of the content and honestly I

04:13didn't really know what to do or how to react I was stunned I kind of just looked

04:18at him and he you could tell by looking his face he knew he was in trouble and he

04:22put the camera down and I think he was trying to pretend like he was trying to

04:26just turn it off and I said well why did you even have it in the first place and

04:31then I realized why are you even in our bedroom in the first place that's super

04:34weird man so I walked out Mandy was waiting outside luckily she didn't come

04:38in with me because I don't know how she would have reacted honestly but I told

04:42her what happened and we went straight back in and said look guys you have to

04:47leave like we trusted you to be in here and obviously we can't trust you you've

04:52just been going through our stuff who knows what else you might have been doing

04:55and I don't know what they thought they were gonna find on the camera if it was

05:00something perverted it's a super weird thing for somebody to look through your

05:03camera especially when your rooms shut and they just let themselves in and

05:07start going through your stuff it actually felt kind of disgusting and

05:11luckily we were leaving that place a couple of days later I let the owner know

05:15I think the maintenance guy maybe got a talking to but the weirdest part about it

05:19was that just about half an hour later the manager came back with the

05:23maintenance guy and he was hanging his head in shame he knew that he'd done

05:28something wrong and she asked us what time we would like them to come back and

05:34do the work like if we were leaving again and I was quite stunned I was like

05:37they're not coming back into our room I mean this guy just was going through our

05:41stuff I'm surprised he still has a job to be honest not that I wish him to get

05:45fired but like he's not coming back in as bad as that experience was like you know

05:50it made us feel a bit gross for a while but it wasn't the end of the world the

05:53lesson we learned from that was unfortunately although people can seem

05:58trustworthy and very friendly you really never know and it made me start

06:03thinking about all the other times people at hotels and stuff had been into

06:08our room while we're out were they going through a camera were they going

06:11through our bags were they going through our belongings like so from that day on

06:15we've taken a different approach like if we're leaving the room for the day and

06:20somebody's coming to clean everything goes in the safe everything is put away

06:23like we just assume unfortunately that people are going to go through our stuff

06:28which kind of sucks okay our next biggest mistake we made we went to

06:32Vietnam for 30 days and this was right at the beginning of our YouTube travel

06:40content careers I guess you'd call it and we actually traveled all the way from

06:45Ho Chi Minh City up to the north in Hanoi by sleeper buses

06:49we were filming every single day editing and putting out videos one maybe two

06:56three times a week maybe every second or third day so we were really pushing it

07:00hard and that's because our channel was growing and we were finding a lot of

07:04success and it was kind of just we just wanted to keep the ball rolling and I

07:08made the decision that instead of flying back from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh which is

07:13where we were flying out of at the end of the trip we should take a 36 hour train

07:18ride from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City which honestly cost probably the same

07:23amount as a flight but was so much harder we slept two nights on this train I

07:29mean I wouldn't even say we slept properly it was pretty uncomfortable the

07:33reason we did it was because we were in such a work mode of getting content and we

07:40thought it would be a really good video to make and share with you guys the

07:44experience of catching that train in hindsight it really took a lot out of us

07:50and we could have just caught a plane and saved ourselves a lot of time and we

07:55would have felt a lot better once we did get to Ho Chi Minh City I actually ended

07:59up getting pretty sick when we got to Ho Chi Minh I got I don't know what I ate

08:04but my stomach got really sick and I think that was from being run down so the

08:09lesson we learned from that was maybe we need to prioritize our health a little bit

08:13more than just making content to be honest that video didn't even really

08:17like get that many views like we thought it would I think because we saw like

08:22Cara and Nate putting out these train videos we thought everyone wanted to see

08:26that and it was a kind of a good experience but if I was to do that again I

08:31wouldn't suggest getting that train I would have just jumped on a plane okay this

08:35next mistake we made was uh actually looking back on it is actually really funny

08:39but at the time it wasn't too funny it was kind of a shitty experience we had

08:43just spent six months living in Bali and it was our last weekend there and we're

08:49flying out to Thailand over the weekend of a public holiday which we had no idea

08:53was going on now a lot of people in the comments section and DMs were asking us

08:59how the hell we didn't know it was a public holiday I don't know we just didn't

09:02know like I don't look at a calendar we were busy filming up in the mountains for a

09:08whole week before we were due to fly out so I guess we just missed it we didn't

09:12know it was a public holiday I didn't book a hotel for the weekend before we

09:16were flying out in Coota until the last minute so literally like we woke up in an

09:22Airbnb on Saturday morning we were due to fly out Monday the plan was to spend two

09:27nights in Coota and then fly out to Thailand I could barely find anything

09:32available but finally I found a hotel at a reasonable price because everything was

09:37super expensive and we didn't have any money then we were broke so we get in the

09:41taxi and we go to this hotel which when we arrived there is a demolished building

09:46slash construction site like there was literally workers with hard hats doing

09:52like steel work to build this building and I'm like this can't be right taxi

09:56driver gets out and talks to the guy finds out the hotel we had just booked had

10:00been closed for two years now I have no idea how we managed to book a hotel that had

10:06been closed for two years but we did so we got the taxi driver to drop us off at a

10:10Starbucks and I jumped online and went looking for another hotel everything was

10:15super expensive we finally found an Airbnb but we decided okay we're not gonna book

10:21this Airbnb without getting confirmation that it's actually like real and

10:26available and we did it got confirmed our booking got confirmed got in another

10:32taxi a couple hours later went to this hotel which had an Airbnb room in it and

10:38as we went to the front desk they looked at us and said sorry there's been a

10:42mistake there's actually no rooms available we then spent probably four to

10:48five hours driving around Cooter and using the hotel's Wi-Fi that we had now the

10:55second hotel that we'd booked and not been able to stay in using their Wi-Fi to try and

11:00find accommodation we put out a story on Instagram to see if anyone knew of any

11:05hotels that were available because everything was completely packed and it

11:08got to like six o'clock at night and we had nowhere to stay and we started

11:11thinking shit like what are we gonna do it literally got nowhere to stay for like

11:15the next two nights luckily I don't know what happened if there was a

11:19miscommunication or if a room became available but the night shift manager came

11:24on at about six o'clock and she comes up to us and she says hey did you guys want

11:29to

11:29stay here tonight and I'm like yeah that's why we booked a room and why we've

11:34been sitting here for the last five hours and she said okay no worries we got one

11:38for you and then she said it's only available for one night unfortunately and

11:41I said look I've already paid for two nights you confirm my booking we've just

11:47wasted a whole day sitting here because you overbooked this place I'd really

11:52appreciate it if we could stay here the two nights and I don't know what

11:55happened but we ended up staying the two nights and it worked out we got a

11:59refund from a goda but the lesson learned in that one was definitely if

12:04you're traveling keep an eye out for any public holidays and try and book

12:08accommodation in advance we're much more careful with that now where I try to

12:12book accommodation in advance I guess we were just moving so fast at the time

12:16that things happened so quickly and we couldn't keep an eye on everything and we're

12:21really just doing our best but that was a lesson learned okay so looking back to be

12:25completely honest I think a lot of these mistakes we made and these situations we

12:29got ourselves into could have probably been avoided if it wasn't for the language

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15:31this to come out wrong but buying an RV in Canada at the time we bought it was

15:36definitely a mistake now I don't know if you guys have seen we did a full RV series

15:40where we bought an RV in Canada and drove it down the whole west I'd say west coast

15:46of the United States we spent five or six months in the RV one of the best

15:51experiences of my life I would hands down do it again except the problem we made a

15:57really big mistake of buying the RV in Canada in March which I thought was

16:03spring Mandy actually grew up in Canada so to be honest I'm kind of putting this

16:08on her a little bit but when we got there it was freezing cold it was actually

16:13still snowing where we were and we went looking for an RV we found an RV but as

16:19soon as we got into it and it was like minus five degrees overnight and then

16:23raining all day and just absolutely terrible weather we got really depressed

16:27and it got really tough like we had our dog with us as well so we had to get up

16:32every morning and walk him in the rain one thing about van life that I think

16:36doesn't really get shared is that it can be such a fun experience and one of the

16:43most freeing things you can do and we plan on doing it again like we're actually

16:47going to do a full van life series in Australia and probably another one in

16:51America but it does depend a lot on the weather if it's super hot and you don't

16:57have air conditioning with which obviously like most fans don't or if

17:01it's pissing down rain and freezing cold that can really make it tough so buying an

17:06RV in Canada and starting a road trip in March while it's still really cold huge

17:12mistake would never do that again if we were ever to do a road trip like that

17:16again in Canada or the United States I'd probably be starting it in at least June

17:21probably July okay this one was one of the toughest moments we actually had

17:27while traveling and it was really just a build-up I think of going too fast working

17:35too much and experiencing burnout we traveled non-stop for about nine months

17:40and we filmed videos almost every day and we edited videos like every second day and

17:48we were doing a weekly podcast as well and on top of that like you're planning all of

17:54your movements and everything's just go go go go go and it was all so new to us and

17:58people kept telling us we were gonna burn out and we thought we weren't we thought

18:01we were fine but the truth is we weren't looking after our health really at all like

18:08work was our priority and at that time we were still drinking alcohol which I think was

18:13one of the biggest reasons that this happened but we left Singapore and got

18:18to Malaysia Kuala Lumpur and started feeling really shitty both of us but we

18:24pushed through it then we flew to the Philippines where we had a month of

18:29travel planned and literally as soon as we landed like we both just crashed and we

18:37couldn't even pick up a camera we felt so bad and we pushed through it we stopped

18:42filming for a few days and rested but then we did a whole series in the

18:46Philippines but we weren't feeling good at all I actually had a little bit of a

18:51motorbike crash or a scooter crash it wasn't anything serious but the scooter

18:56tipped on some mud and it burnt my leg really bad and that was like a couple of

19:02days before we were due to fly to Mexico so Mandy was feeling really really bad her

19:08like vision was blurry and a stomach was just really sick and I don't know why we

19:14had travel insurance and the doctors are really cheap to visit in the Philippines

19:18but we didn't visit a doctor and for some reason I think we had it in our heads and

19:23I believe this is maybe a little bit due to COVID and everything that went on

19:29especially in like Southeast Asia with that we just had this fear of visiting

19:34doctors I'm not sure why but we flew to Mexico and we both got so sick the wound

19:42I had on my leg it got really badly infected to the point where like I mean

19:47I won't go into details but it was really bad I couldn't even walk so I had to drag

19:50myself to a doctor and he basically said look man I'm really glad you came today

19:56because a couple of more days and I don't really know what would have happened

19:58with this this is a really bad infection Mandy actually had to have the doctor come

20:04around to our Airbnb to visit her because she couldn't even make it to the

20:08doctor and she found out she did some blood work and found out that she'd had a

20:13parasite who knows how long she had it for it probably was like over a month

20:17maybe two and had we have just seen doctors earlier we probably would have

20:21been fine and avoided being sick so bad and I think the lesson learned from that

20:27was just like we need to trust doctors like sometimes where you just need to get

20:32over your fear of doctors and we should have we should have gone to the doctor

20:35straight away because our health is the most important thing she got so sick

20:39and I won't go into details of everything that was happening because it's

20:43quite personal but she got so sick that I literally was about to take her to the ER

20:49and I rang our insurance company safety wing to ask them like because we didn't

20:55have much money and I said like if the hospital is gonna charge us a lot of money

20:58like are we gonna be covered are you gonna be able to like help us pay for this

21:02up front I was so worried about it but luckily the doctor who came around was

21:05really really good spoke great English and he sorted her out and but it took like

21:11three or four weeks for both of us to get over that and the lesson learned from that

21:16is obviously go see a doctor early on but don't push yourself too hard like your

21:21health is everything and when when you don't have your health all you want is your

21:26health like money and work and your career and everything seems super

21:30important but as soon as your health goes all you want is to be healthy okay

21:34this next one I'll keep short and sweet it's kind of similar to the last one

21:38actually our first week in Bali we both got dengue fever and honestly like I'll

21:46keep it short because we've mentioned this in so many videos and I don't want to

21:50bang on about it too much but I had no idea how serious dengue fever was and when I

21:56went to the doctor he basically just told me to go and drink a lot of water

21:59and rest and that's what I did for like three days until I got so sick that I

22:05had to get a nurse come around to our Airbnb because I couldn't move and she

22:12gave me IV drips for like ten days Mandy got dengue fever a couple days later

22:17and actually got it even worse than me it was really scary both of our blood

22:21platelets dropped really low and our white blood cells I think like they had

22:27to take blood tests from us every single day for ten days and give us eye drips

22:32IV drips to try and keep us like hydrated and get us healthy again obviously

22:37Mandy got a rash all over her body she couldn't sleep it was terrible it was

22:41the worst worst sickness we've ever had and the reason I think we got it is

22:46because once again we weren't looking after our health we just landed in Bali and

22:49we went out drinking like every night and I even went and did my first jiu-jitsu

22:54class where like I got so dehydrated and what did I do jumped in the pool and

23:02drank a beer straight after and probably drank like five or six beers after that I

23:06got dengue fever straight away after that and I think it was probably related

23:09thing about dengue fever is you can contract it and your symptoms can be very

23:15mild but if your immune system is very low it can be really really bad we really

23:21made the mistake of not looking after our health when we went to Bali oh and

23:25also if you get dengue fever take it very seriously and probably go to the

23:29hospital right away okay our first night in Mexico was again looking back on it

23:35kind of funny but we booked an Airbnb our flight was due to land in Cancun at

23:41around I think 8 or 9 p.m. but it got delayed and our Airbnb and sent us

23:46instructions on how to get into the place but I misread the instructions and

23:51didn't see that you couldn't check in after midnight our flight got delayed and

23:56we got to our Airbnb at about quarter to one in the morning remember this is our

24:02first night ever in Mexico where we were kind of on edge like because we've been

24:08reading all these articles about like shootings and stuff this is in play del

24:11Carmen about recent shootings and gang activity and drugs and violence and look

24:17to be honest Mexico we felt completely safe pretty much the whole time but this

24:22still is a little bit of a kind of scary vibe to Mexico especially one o'clock in

24:26the morning when you're standing on the street with your bags and you can't get

24:30into your Airbnb we got dropped off by our taxi driver and we're ringing the

24:34doorbell I'm trying to like text the owner no response nothing and there's

24:40just like it's completely dark there's street dogs walking around and people

24:45walking past us looking super sketchy so I ended up managing to get a taxi to a

24:51hotel and we stay at the hotel for the night and then the next morning I was

24:55able to get in contact with the Airbnb I tried to get a refund but because their

25:00check-in policy was that you couldn't check in after a certain time I wasn't

25:04able to get a refund and I blame myself for that after that every time we were

25:09flying somewhere I made sure that we were going to be able to check in at any

25:13time even if we had like plane delays or anything like that just to avoid that

25:17sketchy situation that was a creepy situation being stranded on the side of

25:21the road in Mexico okay this is our final one and the one that I wanted you all to

25:27stick around for because this is a super interesting story and something we

25:32haven't shared on our channel everything else that I've mentioned so far you can

25:36actually go back and see that we shared it previously on videos but this one I've

25:41been holding on to for a few reasons because my family's involved and I didn't

25:46want to like publicly name and shame the Airbnb we were staying at at the time I

25:51don't know if I'm gonna name them or not I don't know I don't want to bring too

25:54much negativity to them but basically we recently went to Bali this year in

25:59January for a family get-together we couldn't all get together over

26:04Christmas so we spent January in Bali together and we stayed at this really

26:07great Airbnb which was like a four-bedroom Airbnb there was eight of us

26:12adults plus my nephew and I had a swimming pool we had a super awesome time

26:17like the best family holiday ever the last night of our trip we had like a final

26:22dinner at a restaurant called Santorini which is a Greek restaurant in Canggu

26:28myself and Mandy and my mom and her partner went in one grab and then I think

26:33like my sister and her husband went in another and anyway my brother his wife

26:38and his son who was not even one year old at the time met us there we were sitting

26:45at the table and I could just see the road I saw my brothers grab taxi pull up I

26:52saw him get out I didn't hear anything but I noticed there was a bit of a

26:56commotion going on and it's there was like a bunch of people started sort of

27:00gathering around the car and as I kept looking I thought this is up something

27:05doesn't look right like something's going on over there I'll go check it out I

27:08go to check it out and there's a grab driver with like the green jacket he's

27:12sitting on the curb and he's holding his arm and he's sort of like rocking back

27:17and forth like he's in pain and there's a lot of people just talking and

27:20yelling at each other and like sort of talking to my brother and so his wife

27:25took the baby inside and basically my brother explained that uh they pulled up

27:31to the restaurant the driver pulled up to the curb the restaurant was actually on

27:36like a bit of a bend and my brother hadn't spent much time in Asia at all like

27:43he's been to Bali years ago in Thailand but like he not like us he hasn't spent a

27:47lot of time in Asia he was on the passenger side and he opened his

27:51passenger side door he did look behind him and saw that there was like it was

27:56clear as he's opened his door an oncoming car came in the same came past at the

28:03same time and a grab driver has driven around the corner very fast and he's run

28:09into the door and come off his bike luckily the door and the bike weren't

28:16damaged but the driver was as I said sitting on the side of the road holding

28:19his arm and so uh they were all saying to us look uh they were really getting

28:25quite aggressive actually there ended up being like 10 to 15 grab drivers all sort

28:29of circling us and it got a little bit scary and so they were saying look you got to

28:33go to the hospital um with this guy to like pay for any of his injuries and my

28:39brother said look I understand to be completely honest don't think it was

28:44totally his fault partially his fault maybe I understand that but he said look

28:50I'm happy to go to the hospital with you guys but I'm meant to be on a flight in

28:54like I think it was in like four hours uh back to Canada uh we were literally

28:59going to dinner he had his bags with him and he was catching a taxi straight from

29:04there to the airport to fly back home um and he said look I can't I can't come to

29:10the hospital with you I'm sorry um what can we do we worked it out with the

29:14restaurant manager who's like he's a local obviously and we said what do we do

29:18what do we do in this situation so we gave them uh we agreed on an amount of

29:23money to give them so he could go to the doctor we gave him all of our details our

29:27name passport uh and whatsapp phone number and so my brother goes to the

29:33airport we go home to our villa and then uh my brother's at the airport and he

29:38starts getting messages saying that this guy has a broken arm and he needs surgery

29:42and it's going to cost x amount of dollars it was wasn't cheap it was

29:45something like a thousand dollars and my brother said look um I understand uh but

29:50I'm at the airport right now please just send me like a doctor's you know

29:56certificate x-ray whatever like send me the information and I'll take care of it

30:01like I'm going to take care of it but I'm about to get on a 15 hour flight or

30:06whatever it is back to Canada like a long flight so I guess these grab drivers

30:10they didn't believe my brother they thought he was lying and just trying to

30:14run away from the situation because as I was about to go to bed I started getting

30:19text messages from my brother which he was sending me screenshots of the grab

30:23driver this is the guy that was driving the car saying I'm outside your villa uh we

30:28need to talk to you and he's like I'm not there I can't talk to you I'm literally

30:33about to get on a plane and they started sending really aggressive messages

30:38saying that they were going to hurt us and our family which was kind of scary um

30:43we're just sitting in this villa and I realized holy shit like my whole family's

30:47here and there's I don't know how many guys but they were outside our villa and

30:52they're starting to send threatening messages because they didn't believe my

30:55brother now the problem I had was he's my identical twin if I go out there and

31:00talk to them and say hey look I know I look exactly like my twin brother but I'm

31:05not my twin brother they're not gonna believe me so uh my brother said look just

31:10just send me the details okay I'm gonna be on a plane for the next 15 hours I'm not

31:15like you have my passport um you can make a police report whatever you need to do

31:19like we're not running away he literally sent photos of him at the airport he said

31:25I will we can talk about this tomorrow I can't do anything about this right now

31:30so I texted the security for our Airbnb and said look there's a bunch of guys

31:36supposedly outside our house sending threatening messages I don't want to go

31:40and um confront them because I don't know what I'm going to be facing can you come

31:43and help us out and then um I went to bed because I felt like you know we were

31:49actually flying out the next day I went to bed because I felt like the security

31:53of the Airbnb would take care of it they'd send these guys on their way and it

31:57would all be fine I woke up in the morning and there were a bunch of chairs

32:02stacked up against the front front like entrance door to this villa because

32:08apparently the security let these guys come into the villa and I went into my

32:14mother's room who's 72 years old with flashlights asking for my brother and she

32:21was horrified she was like terrified she didn't know who these people were what

32:26they wanted like she obviously knew about what had happened but like she was

32:30like I can't believe these guys are in my room she didn't know if they were police

32:33which they weren't I woke up and said what's going on and my mum told me the

32:36story and so I messaged the security guys I said hey like what's going on like why

32:42did you let these guys into my villa like I asked you to get them to leave if

32:47anything like if they really wanted to come and like find my brother or whatever

32:52like let's get the police like contact the police and they can see you know what's

32:57going on we didn't see we didn't see any police officers at all the messages kept

33:02coming and kept getting worse and worse I would love to share the messages that

33:07were sent because some of them were actually really disgusting like they were

33:13wishing very bad things on my family and my nephew which really put a bad taste

33:18in my mouth because our intent was never to run away from what had happened at all

33:25it was just bad timing my brother ended up speaking to the motorbike rider and

33:32speaking to a doctor and we found out okay like his arms broken everything this

33:36is what it's gonna cost and he sent him the money like and like he said he would

33:40he never planned on running away from it the way that the guys acted though was

33:45really alarming like I don't know what might have happened had I have gone out and

33:50spoken to these guys and apparently in Bali there's a bit of a different way of

33:55dealing with things like in the neighborhood they have their own policing

33:58system which I didn't know about I think they're called banjar but I would have

34:04just liked for the police to be get involved if anything like when there's an

34:09accident you know the police should be called and maybe we could have figured

34:12everything out there obviously I think the grab driver knew that the

34:16policeman wouldn't help them out at all but anyway it ended up being okay but it

34:22definitely put a bad taste in our mouth and I was kind of disappointed with the

34:26Airbnb security for letting these guys into the room we had a back and forth a

34:32few phone conversations after that and they explained to me that they were just

34:37trying to fix the situation and figure out what was going on but I expressed to

34:42them that it was disappointing that like we thought you know they were there to

34:47make sure that we were safe and they were letting these guys into our villa

34:51especially into my mum's room while she's sleeping without us knowing like we

34:55don't know what these guys are capable of or what they're doing and judging by

34:58the messages that they were sending us I'm not sure if I'm gonna share these on

35:02screen or not because they're pretty horrific if I think if the security had

35:05have known what these guys were saying to us they probably wouldn't have let him in

35:09but everything turned out all right the lesson I learned from that is that nobody

35:14really trusts anybody we didn't necessarily trust the guys that they

35:19weren't just trying to run a scam on us because I know this is something that

35:22happens in Bali and they didn't trust us because they thought we were just trying

35:27to run away from the situation if I could go back in time and do it again I

35:32probably would have gone to the hospital with the guy myself instead of letting my

35:38brother deal with it although it was my brother this last time I was gonna see

35:41my brother in a year so I wanted to have dinner with him but that was probably a

35:45mistake I probably should have gone to the hospital with them myself just to show

35:50them that we never intended on running away from the situation and I think it it all

35:56goes down comes down to trust so yeah that's it I mean that was one of the most

36:04intense encounters we've ever had while traveling and kind of scary so that's it

36:08that's some of the biggest mistakes we've made while traveling and some of the

36:13not-so-great experiences we have I know when we put out video sometimes we can

36:18sugarcoat things and make it look like everything's always perfect but it's not

36:23we try to be as transparent as upfront as possible and share the good with the

36:28bad and hopefully other channels do that as well but I know sometimes from the

36:32outside looking in it can look like everything's just fine and dandy and

36:35perfect when maybe sometimes there are some personal issues going on behind the

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8 Worst Travel Mistakes We’ve Made in 2.5 Years of Full-Time Travel

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