Samantha Brown, travel TV host, has tips for every vacation mishap

Her own evolution as a travel host shapes the advice she gives. When she started out, she felt she had to have a flawless itinerary, never making a mistake on camera, and effortlessly making her way around the world. These days, she has a stronger sense of humor about pretty much everything.

"We're always asking for things," Brown says. "We always need something, whether it's a bathroom or a really good flaky croissant. So, if I know how to say that in the most polite form, that makes the connection right there."

"Maybe that's what we all need to do, is just imagine that we're Chevy Chase, we're trying to get home, we're John Candy, trying to get home, and maybe we just put a comedy spin on it," she suggests.

"I think the airport experience has become a lot better, where the flight experience has ... " Brown says before pausing for what feels like a long time. "I think it's stabilized, but it has deteriorated for so long. It's kind of now just keep your expectations really low and then you'll be fine."

If you can't do this immediately (and a lot of us can't), don't give up and don't go home. Do what you can to try to find the humor in it.

"Believe it or not, every single time I arrive in a destination that I've had so much planning and expectations, I get to my hotel and I literally sit in the bed and I say, 'Now what?' There's just this moment that we have to allow ourselves. We had the fantasy. Now is the reality. They're going to come together."

"Even when things have gone painfully wrong, it's amazing how you can turn around a situation and just have a good time. You're like, "Well, at least I'll have a story for the next 40 years of my life."

Source: CNN

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