Master Travel English
Essential vocabulary, phrasal verbs, and collocations for your next journey.
Essential Nouns
Airport & Transit
The area where passengers wait before boarding their flight.
Small bags that you keep with you on the plane.
Where you give bags to the airline and get your boarding pass.
A break in a journey, typically between flights.
A large building at an airport where passengers board or alight.
A vehicle that travels regularly between two places.
Accommodation
Meal plans including three (full) or two (half) meals a day.
A small, stylish, and usually expensive hotel.
Inexpensive lodging with shared rooms (dormitories).
An available room in a hotel or guesthouse.
Sightseeing
A planned route or journey; a schedule of activities.
A recognizable natural or man-made feature.
A thing that is kept as a reminder of a place or event.
A place that attracts many tourists and charges high prices.
Descriptive Adjectives
Breathtaking
So spectacular that it takes your breath away.
Picturesque
Visually attractive, especially in a quaint or charming way.
Off-the-beaten-track
In a place where few people go, far from main roads.
Lush
Growing luxuriantly; green and healthy (vegetation).
Hectic
Full of incessant or frantic activity.
Spoilt
Changed for the worse by too much tourism.
Essential Phrasal Verbs
come back
To return to a place.
check in /tʃek ɪn/
To show your ticket at an airport for seat assignment and baggage check.
check out
To leave a hotel after paying and returning your room key.
chill out
To relax instead of worrying or feeling anxious.
drop off
To take someone/something to a place, usually by car.
eat out
To eat in a restaurant.
get away
To go somewhere to have a holiday, often to rest.
go back
To return.
look around
To visit a place and look at the things in it.
see someone off
To go to a station/airport to say goodbye.
set something off
To cause an activity or series of events to begin.
stop over
To stay at a place for a night or two while on a long journey.
stop off
To visit a place for a short time when going somewhere else.
take something off
To remove something (especially clothes).
touch down
The moment an aircraft lands on the ground.
Collocations
take delight in something / doing something
To enjoy something very much, sometimes in a way that seems surprising or unkind.
Practice Dialogues
Scenario A: Hotel Check-in
Scenario B: Asking for Directions
Scenario C: Airport Security
Common Idioms
To travel light
To travel with very little luggage.
To hit the road
To depart or begin a journey.
On a shoestring
Traveling with very little money.
At the crack of dawn
Very early in the morning.