Anyone here driven on the "other side" of the road on vacations?

[NoCreativity]

What is interesting, but still not hard is driving on the "wrong" side, but sitting on the left side, did that in St. Croix, USVI

Did that before. The only confusing part was in parking lots where there wasn't a constant flow of traffic to remind me to stay left.

 

[AViking]

or just rent an auto, makes it a bit easier

Way more money and kinda rare over here. But sure you can.

 

[Anubis]

Way more money and kinda rare over here. But sure you can.

really?

ive only rented in the carribiean, and autos are much more common down there

 

[Worthington]

you WILL however turn your wipers on every time you want to use your blinkers

This.. so this.

 

[AMD64Blondie]

With my mom and dad in Australia back in 1994.
(They were driving,as I was 11 at the time.)

That was 20 years ago(I'm 30 now),but I remember it like yesterday.

Getting in on the opposite side of the car was weird at first...
but nothing like the drive back from the airport to the rental house where we were staying in Canberra.I had my foot on an imaginary brake pedal the whole way.

(Seeing as that was my first time where cars were on the "wrong" side of the road..to my US car-trained brain.)

 

[edro]

I rented a car in Ireland for a day.
I got an automatic Audi A8 because I didn't want to deal with a left handed manual transmission.

It is really weird feeling. You hug the left side of the road and left turns are "trump" as our right turns are in the US.
I found myself constantly drifting to the left and off the road slightly. In the US, you sit in the left portion of the lane.
In Britain, you sit on the right side of the lane. You have to keep telling yourself to hug the right side of the lane. It is hard to get used to.

I thought it was a fun experience though. Make sure you get the extra insurance!

 

[Fern]

Yeah, I've driven in England, Scotland and down in the Virgin islands.

I never got very comfortable driving in traffic in larger cities like London and Edinburgh. Making turns in big intersections was particularly bad.

Highway/interstate driving isn't bad, just remember which is the slow lane.

Driving on small rural roads in England and Scotland worried me as well. Many of these roads seem only wide enough for one car. It is on these roads where many foreigners have accidents. Often due to hedges or curves you don't see the on coming car until the last minute and your instinct is to pull to the wrong side of the road. So be careful in this situation.

In Europe I was driving a left handed vehicle so it may have been more uncomfortable for me than most.

Fern

 

[boomerang]

If you're driving a right hand drive car that's a stick, is first forward and toward you the driver or forward and towards the passenger? Always wondered.

 

[OutHouse]

you WILL however turn your wipers on every time you want to use your blinkers

lol yea. 30 years of muscle memory of turn signal on the left is really hard to reprogram.

 

[MixMasterTang]

If you're driving a right hand drive car that's a stick, is first forward and toward you the driver or forward and towards the passenger? Always wondered.

Same layout as in the US.

 

[Midwayman]

Keeping the car on the road is the least of your issues. Biggest problem is the same as walking around an area where they drive on the opposite side of the road. You check for traffic coming from the wrong direction unless you really think about it.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Going through a roundabout the wrong way feels so strange....

But like others have said, you get used to it quickly.

 

[purbeast0]

ok so general consensus is that it's going to be awkward driving from the airport to our hotel lol, but it sounds like i should be used to it fairly quickly. gonna be a tad nervous on that drive lol.

 

[MrSquished]

done it twice in Cyprus and it came quickly. drove all over the island for 2 weeks both times without any hiccups. just try to avoid alcohol the first few times. both times using an automatic. i suspect driving stick would have taken a bit longer to get comfy. but woulda worked.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I drive whenever I go back to Malaysia. Just remember that you're always sitting near the center of the road.

 

[Sluggo]

done it twice in Cyprus and it came quickly. drove all over the island for 2 weeks both times without any hiccups. just try to avoid alcohol the first few times. both times using an automatic. i suspect driving stick would have taken a bit longer to get comfy. but woulda worked.

Wouldn't you want to avoid alcohol EVERY time you were driving?

 

[Fayd]

based on the use of quotations in the OP title, I thought it was supposed to be a euphemism for something else...