Europe for Visitors
Travel Europe with more than 2,500 pages of articles, photos, and links from Durant Imboden, author of "Buying Travel Services on the Internet". Find everything you need to know about traveling through Western Europe. Check out the Travel Planner, City Guides, and National Tourist Offices.
Visit London
Visit London is the official visitor organisation for the capital. The voice for London's tourism industry, Visit London promotes London as the world's most exciting city by marketing to domestic and overseas leisure and business visitors, as well as Londoners. Marketing tools have been developed that are practical and easy to use include How To Guides, Local Tourism Toolkit and Cultural Factsheets.
Rail Europe
Rail Europe allows you to book all types of European rail passes and tickets online. Eurail Passes, Europasses, Single Country Passes, Point to Point Tickets, Rail 'n Drive passes, Night trains, Special trains, High Speed trains, TGV, Eurostar, Thalys, and more are all bookable online here. We also feature online train schedules.
IgoUgo
500,000 travelers think IgoUgo is the best place to store and share their trip stories and pictures, building a library of honest opinions, tips, and experiences that you won’t find in any guidebook. To date, our travel community has contributed hundreds of thousands of reviews and photos of everything from cheap eats to luxury hotels in 9,000 destinations worldwide. Launched in June 2000, IgoUgo isn’t only the go-to site for savvy travelers; industry leaders have taken notice, too. Acknowledgements include a 2004 Webby Award win for “Best Travel Site in the U.S.” and a 2006 “Best Travel Site” nod from Forbes.com.
City Search
This megasite is indispensible to any and all travelers. It contains city guides for virtually any metropolitan area worldwide. In addition to the travel and lodging necessities demanded by vacationers, Citysearch provides the cultural products and services that a municipality offers at the exact time of your visit. Wherever you go, however you get there, check out what's happening in your ultimate destination and all points along the way. Clubs, shows, movies, restaurants, night life, and unique events are all a few clicks away.
Lonely Planet
This might be the best travel and vacation information site on the internet. Lonely Planet allows you to kickstart your vacation plans from a different perspective. Choose one of the Theme Guides to focus on a trip based upon your favorite activities. Review the more conventional World Guide to investigate virtually destination you might aspire to. Jump to Scoop, the huge archive of current travel news relative to anyplace on earth! Stop here before you make any final decisions.
Fodors
The internationally renown vacation specialists, Fodors is the world's largest English language travel guidebook publisher. They clarify every important travel issue intelligently and succinctly. 60 years of experience has devined their right to pontificate about Destinations, Hotels, Restaurants, and Resources with time-tested authority. Get valuable information about family travel, national parks, adventures, educational vacations, and dozens of other categories. This is a simple concept to absorb. You don't endure for 60 years without doing something very right!
Trip Advisor
Do you need some information on the hotels in Maui, Barcelona, or Key West? Having trouble deciding whether to choose a Swiss Alps vacation package, a stay in Cancun, or a dream tour of the French Riviera? Trip Advisor is what you need. They've archived the best travel articles, guidebooks, reviews and vacation packages available on the web. Their reviews are independent, unbiased, and comprehensive. This award-winning site is partners with most of the major travel players on the internet, including Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, Radisson, Six Continents, and Delta Airlines. Don't rely on Aunt Alice's opinion about touring London or the lunatic ravings of your daughter's boyfriend relative to Skiing in Colorado, VISIT THIS SITE!
Tripbase
Instead of asking users to search through mountains of data to find their preferred travel information, Tripbase asks users for their travel preferences. Then, in a matter of seconds, it provides them with unique, unbiased information for the best destinations, hotels, flights, activities and much more. Tripbase has aggregated over 26 million points of data from sources that include: traveler reviews, expert blogs and websites. By analyzing, matching and reassembling that data quickly and precisely, Tripbase can give visitors only the information that's valuable for them. This technology uses the preferences a visitor selects to give unbiased recommendations for a personalized vacation. It also provides great travel tools; such as a Caribbean Vacation Finder and a Cost per Day calculator! They've already done the research - YOU DON'T HAVE TO! [Contributed by Walt Edwards!]
Rental Car Guide
This web site, sponsored by BreezeNet.Com, maintains current pricing and availability information for rental cars in every market worldwide. Links to every metropolitan area airport car rental make comparing prices and reserving your preferred vehicle easy. Whether you are interested in a Van or SUV, Exotic Luxury or Sports Car, or a vehicle for a College Age driver, this site will fill the bill.
The Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. State Department
Seasoned traveler keeps this site on their bookmark list. The Travel Warnings and Consular Information Sheets can prevent your vacation from becoming a disaster. Its very comforting to know how you can secure the help you may need from your government at Embassies and Consulates around the world. Look into the Services and Information for American Citizens Abroad to cope with lost passports, medical emergencies, overseas road safety, and a plethora of emergency services available to U.S.Citizens abroad. Don't be foolish...check in here. After all, you already paid for these services with your tax dollars!
