Holidays in the 1990s – A Nightmare or Actually Better?

The Editors, 24.06.2026

Travelling without Airbnb, smartphones and digital maps, while exchanging currencies across Europe: TV channel Arte takes a look back at holidays in the 1990s. Falstaff TRAVEL explores how travel has changed since then – and which details now seem almost amusingly outdated.

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No smartphones, apps or digital assistants – instead, travellers relied on city maps, printed travel catalogues and a fair amount of improvisation. That was what holidays looked like in the 1990s. Whether this meant pure inconvenience or perhaps even greater freedom is the question explored in a nostalgic feature by Arte TV. Falstaff TRAVEL takes a look back at the analogue world of travel and examines how the experience of being on the road has changed since then.

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