150+ Vacation Instagram Captions to Spice Up Your Travel Pics

Your bags are packed. Your out-of-office email reply is all set. And you've just uploaded all your old photos to create room for the hundreds of new ones you're about to take during your vacay. Even if your Instagram feed has been dead for months, the minute you get away and go on some fabulous vacation, you're suddenly ready to post twice a day! To make all of your amazing travel photos shine and get even more likes and comments from your friends on social media, pairing them with the perfect vacation Instagram caption is a must.

Whether you're traveling to a sunny beach to escape the cold of winter or are lucky enough to go overseas and add a new stamp to your passport, finding just the right beach Instagram caption, or saying or pun to use as your photo caption will help you #humblebrag in style.

This big list of 150+ of the best vacation Instagram captions for all of your travel pics can help—so you can spend more time taking additional pics (#throwbackthursday anyone?) than thinking up the perfect photo caption.

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150+ Best Vacation Instagram Captions

1. Always take the scenic route.

2. An adventure a day keeps the doctor away.

3. Be back never.

4. Calories don’t count when you’re on vacation.

5. Catch flights, not feelings.

6. Collect moments, not things.

7. I do believe it’s time for another adventure.

8. I need a six-month-long vacation twice a year.

9. It’s bad manners to keep a vacation waiting.

10. Let’s wander where the wi-fi is weak. 

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11. Don’t worry, Beach happy.

12. Seek to sea more.

13. My perfect vacation: feet up, head back, eyes closed!

14. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.

15. Tropic like it's hot!

16. Vacation calories don’t count.

17. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

18. Rome stole a pizza my heart.

19. I mean, I'm just China have a good time.

20. Eiffel in love in Paris. 

21. BRB, going to soak up some vitamin sea.

22. Lost at sea? I'm not shore.

23. Selfies or vacation didn't happen. 

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24. Sea you soon.

25. Beach more, Worry less.

26. This is my resting beach face.

27. The tan will fade, but the memories will last forever.

28. "Jet lag is for amateurs." — Dick Clark

29. You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream on the beach!

30. Don't be a tourist, be a traveler.

31. Vacation mood: on.

32. Life is better in flip-flops.

33. I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel brochure.

34. Work, travel, save, repeat.

35. Good vibes happen on the tides.

36. Travel, because money returns. Time doesn't.

37. Beach, please.

38. I'm all about the palm trees and 80 degrees.

39. What the shell?"

40. Czech out the view!

41. My love for camping is in-tents.

42. The only thing I love more than traveling is eating. So why not do both at the same time?

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43. I need a vacation so long, I forget all my passwords

44. "I hate traveling." — said no traveler ever

45. In a relationship with: my passport.

46. Incurable wanderlust

47. Work hard, travel harder.

48. You can take your five-star hotel. I’ve got a million stars in the sky here.

49. Don’t listen to what they say, go and see it for yourself.

50. It’s time to vacay.

51. On the road again.

52. Views on views.

53. Let’s go to explore magical places.

54. A vacation day is always a great idea.

55. Sunshine is the best medicine.

56. OOO indefinitely.

57. Vacation vibes.

58. Slice of life

59. Paradise isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

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60. Making the best memories along the way

61. Vacation state of mind!

62. Wake up in paradise.

63. No point in unpacking... I'm ready to hit the road again soon!

64. What a wonderful world!

65. Friendly faces from around the world.

66. Weekend getaway

67. I'm just a beachy kinda girl.

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68. Life's a beach. Enjoy the waves.

69. Tired feet, happy heart.

70. It's a whole new world.

71. Bon voyage!

72. Eating my way through Italy.

73. Take a walk on the wild side.

74. I'm not in Kansas anymore.

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75. Don’t spend your money on things. Spend it on experiences!

76. Couples who travel together stay together.

77. Already dreaming of my next vacation.

78. Seas the day.

79. In my happy place!

80. Vacation flashback!

81. I only collect one thing: stamps on my passport.

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82. Heaven on earth

83. Meet me under the palms

84. Going up!

85. Happiness comes in waves.

86. My favorite color is sunset.

87. To travel is to live

88. Let the currents guide your heart.

89. Don’t be afraid to make a splash!

90. Mountain trips and foggy mornings.

91. Time to explore!

92. “The journey, not the arrival, matters. – T.S. Eliot

93. My home away from home.

94. PSA: Update your address book—I live here now.

95. Drop it like it’s hot!

96. One’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.

97. Friends that travel together, slay together.

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98. We vacation not to escape life but for life not to escape us.

99. Travel as much as you can, travel as far as you can, travel and find yourself.

100. Travel not to find yourself, but to remember where you have been all long.

101. Concrete jungle

102. There is no foreign land, it is the traveler only who is foreign.

103. It's not about the destination, but the journey.

104. Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.

105. A tourist doesn’t know where they have been, a traveller doesn’t know where they are going.

106. I <3 NYC

107. Your wings are already exist, all you have to do is fly.

108. Sandy toes. Sun-kissed nose.

109. Talk to the sand.

110. Go, fly, road, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover , adventure.

111. May every day bring a new adventure.

112. You cannot control the past, but you can control where you go next.

113. The fastest way to expand your horizons is to visit somewhere new.

114. Mermaid kisses and starfish wishes.

115. Girls just wanna have sun.

116. Top of the world!

117. I have not been everywhere yet, but it’s on my list.

118. Everyone should believe in something. I believe I should go to the beach.

119. If it requires a bikini, my answer is yes.

120. Salt in the air. Sand in my hair.

121. High tides and good vibes.

122. Live with no excuses, travel with no regrets.

123. The only trip you will regret is the one you didn’t take.

124.You told me it was Chile in South America. But I don’t Bolivia.

125. Let's taco 'bout going to Mexico.

126. Bae took one for the team and let me have the window seat.

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127. The only thing I love more than traveling is eating. So why not do both at the same time?

128. Left my heart in Morocco.

129. Better than my wildest dreams.

130. Suns out, buns out.

131. Wander often, wonder always.

132. "A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles." — Jim Cahill

133. Permanently out of office.

134. Never visit the same place twice.

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135. People don’t take trips, trips take people.” — John Steinbeck

136. Collect moments, not things.

137. 14 hour flight was totally worth it.

138. Welcome to Miami.

139. It’s bad manners to keep a vacation waiting.

140. It's 5 o'clock somewhere.

141. Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.

142. Ocean air, salty hair.

143. Time flies... until you're counting down the days to your next vacay.

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144. Vacay vibes.

145. Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

146. What is life but one grand adventure.

147. Tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.

148. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

149. My sweet escape.

150. Up, up and away!

Travel Quotes for Instagram

151. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

152. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag

153. “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” — Sue Fitzmaurice

154. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” — Pico Iyer

155. “The journey is my home.” — Muriel Rukeyser

156. “I read; I travel; I become.” ― Derek Walcott

157. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” — Hilaire Belloc

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