Road trips are the crème de la crème of friend holidays.

You’ve seen Easy Rider a gazillion times. You’ve read enough Kerouac. You’ve spent hours browsing through Tumblr pictures of the open road, you’re ready to go!

But are you?

Once you’ve sorted the insurance, checked out all the different countries’ driving laws and planned your route you may think your all set.

However, there are many things you will only realise you’ve forgotten once you’ve hit the road.

However, here at Cooler, we’ve had our share of road trip mishaps. So wer’e to pass on our best tips on how to have the best trip ever and avoid getting locked out of your car in the middle of a creepy Dutch village (true story…unfortunately)

Here are our eight best tips for surviving your first road trip…