For The Summer season I Turned Fairly star Gavin Casalegno, 2025 was “The Yr He Traveled the World.” His Instagram followers have jetted alongside him as he is hopped from stylish nights out throughout Paris Style Week to gritty subway stations in New York Metropolis and all of the moments in between, whether or not it is wandering the streets of London and Copenhagen or hanging at motels in Hawaii and Bali. 

“I genuinely suppose I have been extra at airports than I’ve in my very own mattress,” the 26-year-old actor informed Journey + Leisure. “It is a blessing, and I am tremendous pleased about it.” 

Whether or not his adventures take him close to or far, he all the time packs an enthusiasm for exploration, as he shared when calling us from the thoroughbred racing culminating championship, the Breeders’ Cup, held earlier this month in Del Mar, California. 

“This was not my bingo card for this yr, so I am tremendous excited,” the Dallas-born actor mentioned, particularly taken by the fashionable style within the stands. “I really feel like I’m going again in time to a ballroom or a loopy extravaganza. It’s been so enjoyable to see all of the hats and everybody trying so good.”

Earlier this yr, he spent eight weeks on the opposite facet of the globe in Thailand whereas he was filming the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios film “The Satan’s Mouth.” 

“Attending to reside in Thailand for a pair months was tremendous sick,” he mentioned, detailing that he was in Bangkok for a month with a few weeks every in Krabi and Chiang Mai. “Touring and experiencing different cultures and languages is the easiest way to study folks and the world.”

He additionally had the privilege of getting the locals he labored with double as his guides, taking him to their favourite eating places and ordering all the normal dishes. “Dude, the pad thai was to die for—it was so good,” he exclaimed, including that he was additionally a fan of the fried fish.

After all, one other vacation spot he’s immersed himself in is North Carolina, the place he filmed three seasons of TSITP as (spoiler alert!) the lovelorn Jeremiah Fisher. A lot of the time was spent round Wilmington, the place he frequented “top-notch” Social Espresso, in addition to Casa Blanca and Pipeline Poke. He was additionally mesmerized by the campus of the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which was “gorgeous, and hanging out with all the school children was actually enjoyable.”

However by far, probably the most wonderful place he traveled for the present was truly a part of a secret mission for TSITP guide sequence writer and present producer Jenny Han. Since keen followers scoured each element for Easter eggs as as to whether his character Jeremiah or Christopher Briney’s Conrad would find yourself with the title character Stomach, performed by Lola Tung, a decoy journey was deliberate.

“When Jenny referred to as and requested, ‘Hey, do you need to movie a faux scene simply to throw suspicious sniffs off?’ I used to be like, ‘A free journey to Paris? Completely sure!’” he mentioned.

Whereas Casalegno received to spend a lot of his time simply having fun with Paris, he did truly go on set to movie a faux scene. “I used to be operating down the road yelling ‘Stomach’ simply to make folks have a look at me and begin taking movies and stuff like that,” he mentioned. “It was a really uncommon situation, however I had a blast.”

In actual life, Casalengo is not calling anybody’s identify within the streets aside from his spouse, Cheyanne Casalegno, with whom he celebrated their one-year anniversary this month. The couple have grown accustomed to life on the highway collectively, regardless of their reverse methods of settling in.

“If we’re there longer than 4 or 5 days, I’ll unpack fully,” he mentioned. “My spouse, however, simply retains every part in a suitcase.”

However they do agree on all the time integrating lodge exercises into their stays “particularly as a result of so a lot of them have good gyms.” Plus, their first order of enterprise upon arrival is all the time the identical.

“We often order room service the second we get into the lodge,” he mentioned. “I am a giant fan of candy potato fries. Fairly frankly, that is actually how I rank motels, whether or not they have good fries. Additionally, if their mini bar has all kinds of fine, wholesome snacks, I am like, ‘Oh snap! That is cream-of-the-crop bougie.’ That is the place it’s at!”

Two of his all-time favourite stays are, appropriately, each within the Metropolis of Love. “I received to remain at Shangri-La Paris. That was divine. It was wild—I felt like royalty,” he mentioned. “Mandarin Oriental Lutetia, Paris can also be a extremely cool, tremendous good lodge with an underground pool. They’ve received nice meals and lots of reside music—and good mini bar snacks and fries!”

However in fact, his most romantic journey reminiscence was his and Cheyanne’s honeymoon to the Maldives. “The water was so fairly, the climate was so good,” he mused of staying in an over-water bungalow. “The Maldives are critically one of the vital stunning locations on Earth. So attending to go there with somebody that you simply love is very advisable.”