Jet Lag

[CharleyUK]

Hi

Does anyone know how bad jet lag can be. Been over to the US 3 times and only felt it once and that was on the way over to Las Vegas, but it didn't hold us back.

Off to Australia at the end of October Get back on the Sunday morning and had requested my days off for Monday Tuesday to recover. Got my rota today and discovered my annual mandatory training is Tuesday Wednesday of that week! Do you think i wil recover in time for the Tuesday morning?

To make matters worse I'm sneeking a 4 day trip to DLP the following Monday using days off and one days holiday and will have to work a double shift that week to be able to go.

Any tips? I think i will be living on coffee

 

[KayleeUK]

Red bull How exciting though.

 

[Minniespal]

Drink plenty of water on the flight home and try and stay awake till bedtime

 

[diberry]

If anyone comes up with a marvellous remedy I'd like to hear about it!!! Like you we went to Vegas this year and I reckon it took me a good 8 days to get my head back!!! However I wouldn't let that stop you going on that fantastic trip - you'll cope on auto-pilot!!!

 

[Miffy2003]

Yes to the Red Bull suggestion

We always try to get back on the UK time thing on the way back, and force ourselves to stay up when we get back until a reasonable hour. Quite how easy that's going to be on such a long flight though I don't know

Good luck!

 

[musketeer]

Last year we were advised that when you get home to have no more than 2 -3 hours sleep and then try and stay awake until your normal bedtime

 

[wilki32]

We went to Australia at the end of last year via the States, the opposite way to 'normal'.

We flew from Heathrow to Orlando, stayed 5 nights then onto Sydney with a hour and half stay in LA, we arrived in Sydney at 8am and stayed up all day finally going to bed at 10.30pm. I personally didn't suffer from any jetlag but DW got very tired for the first week at about 7pm.

On the way back as a lot different, after a 15hr Sydney to SF a 2 hr stretch then 12 hrs to Heathrow finally landing about 7am. We did the same thing, stayed up by doing the family rounds and finally got to bed absolutely shattered about 10pm. Promptley woke up at 2am, 3am, 4am...yoy get the message! Now DW was absolutely fine!

I don't think it makes any difference what you do, you either get it or you don't. Mine lasted about 3 weeks or was that I was totally fed up being home!

You will have an absolutely fantastic time, Australia is a wonderful place with amazing people. Where are you going, we were at Sydney and hoping to go next year in DD summer holiday.

 

[CharleyUK]

Hi Anthony

We are going to Adelaide- driving to Melbourne on the great ocean road, flying to Sydney to stay with rels and then up to Cairns. 3 week trip in total.
Getting rearly excited now. Guess I'll just have to deal with any jet lag if it comes. Like you I think the post holiday blues will be much worse

Any Australia tips fro me?

 

[wilki32]

One tip, Just Enjoy.
There are 2 places now i'd love to live, Florida or Oz, both for totally different reasons. My DD 11 wants to go to universiy over there so maybe its oz in a few years for us, not sure about DW tho
We wanted to do Cairns last year but just run out of time. We stayed very much around the Sydney area but make sure you see the Blue Mountains, amazing and there really is a blue mist. Hunter Valley, where all the wine is, we stayed at a great little hotel and well, the rest was a blur!
You will have a fantastic time.

 

[CharleyUK]

Hi Anthony

Would you recommend the hotel you stayed at in the Hunter Valley, we are looking to do a wine tour. Can you remember how long it took to get there from Sydney?

Trying to plan as much as possible to cram it all in.

 

[wilki32]

Sorry Charley didn't spot the question.
I'll try to find it out, I think it's a good couple of hours, don't know exactly as we went dolphin spotting for a cpl of days at Jervis Bay, allegedly one of the beaches has the whitest sand in the world. I have 2 Tooheys bottle full of the stuff, you probably haven't heard of tooheys but you will, the sand squeaked when you walked on it!
Back to the original question, I think alot of the 'hotels' in the Hunter valley are more chalet style, seperate units rather than one big building.
One tip, don't drive, I did and love my wine, watched everyone start of nice and serious then end up drinking anything that was put in front of them, I thought it was disgraceful!
I'll try and find out the name of the hotel but the best way seemed to be looking in the papers or magazines for good deals. We were lucky my cousins were tight with there money!

 

[Astrid]

Hiya!

I've travelled quite a lot - loved Australia, would hope to go back one of these days!! I've luckily never suffered from jet lag and I put this down to changing my watch to the time of the place I'm flying to as soon as I board the plane and from then on that is the time!!

I don't go to sleep until it's 'bedtime' and even though I can never get a wink of sleep on the plane and I find this works really well for me, although, yes, admit there are times when I'm fighting the tiredness!!

I have recently taken Melatonin which I bought in Walmart in the States and I found this worked well too.

Have a wonderful trip

Astrid

 

[diberry]

Thanks Astrid. I've tried setting my watch to the destination time and also bought Melatonin - nothing happened!!! Mind you I don't sleep well at home so there's no hope for me on a plane!

 

[diberry]

Just found this!!!
http://www.bodyclock.com/

 

[natalielongstaff]

ive just been and brought some sleeping tablets from boots ! i was having trouble sleeping before i went away but its much worse now im hoping the sheer fact ive taken something will trick me into sleeping as im getting more anxious about it each night and that DEFINATLY doesn't help

 

[CharleyUK]

Hi

Like the link Diana, seems to make sense to seek daylight at the right times but i think it might take too much effort for me. Can you imagine walking around in the daylight viser, not a great fashion statement.