español · A1 · vocabulary · 4 minutes
Travel essentials
Prepare the documents, luggage, and bookings a trip requires.
Understand the choice
Prepare a basic trip with the documents, luggage, booking, and places you need first. Learn these nouns before adding more specialized airport language.
Core rule: Use tener for travel documents and reservations; de links one noun to another in reserva de hotel.
Notice it in context
Tengo el pasaporte, el billete y una reserva de hotel.
I have the passport, the ticket, and a hotel reservation.
El identifies expected documents; una introduces one reservation.
Mi maleta está en el aeropuerto.
My suitcase is at the airport.
Estar gives the suitcase's location.
Necesitamos un mapa para el viaje.
We need a map for the trip.
Para presents the map's purpose.
What to remember
- Billete is a transport ticket in Spain; boleto is common in the Americas.
- Viaje is the noun trip; viajar is the verb to travel.
Common trap: Do not use viajar as a noun after buen; say buen viaje.