General Travel Sites
| These general-interest sites have features such as personal trip planners, restaurant and hotel listings, and budgeting advice for everyone from Donald Trump to Donald Duck. |
Fodor's is a venerable and reliable name in travel, and its site is always worth the trip. Lonely Planet, with more than 150 guides specializing in low-cost tripping to out-of-the-way places, is for the goatee and love-bead set. Epicurious Travel covers exotic destinations, and has an excellent airfare bargains page. The Rec.Travel Library is a searchable archive chock-full of information and links to outside sources. The Travel Channel offers ideas, recommendations, and online chat forums. Yahoo!'s Metro sites (hit the More Yahoos button) list neighborhood-specific content for many metropolitan areas. Use the CitySearch guides to zero in on the right local resources; finally, Excite's guide is a links list extraordinaire.
| The Great Outdoors Recreation Pages are for the backpacking crowd, and mainly cover U.S. trails and parks. |
| On Beyond Atlas: MapsOnUs; Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection; and Navtech Driver Directions provide maps, directions, and even weather. |
Travel agents, airlines, and hotel bookings abound on the Web. Travelocity, with an excellent interface and interactive map feature, will help you book everything but haggling sessions with shopkeeper at the bazaar. Expedia's travel agent will make plane, hotel room, and car rental reservations. It also offers discussion forums and a handy currency converter. Go Explore's content ranges from airline and rental car reservations to listings of bed and breakfasts in the U.S. With a simple interface, reservations.com offers a basic service; look elsewhere to book a complicated itinerary. The Internet Travel Network lets you choose a human agent who actually books the trip you've decided upon. PC Travel bills itself as "Your Airline Ticket Outlet."
| In the Sky: United Airlines has flight reservations and travel tips; American Airlines is equally helpful. You can also check out Delta, Northwest, and British Airways for services from online reservations to e-mail newsletters to flight info. |
Vagabond Monthly is all about stories, from confessions of urban campers to spiritual quests to Bakersfield. Roadside America revels in Americana: everything from the cheesiest of tourist attractions to the arcane and bizarre. MapQuest has an interactive worldwide atlas. Former flight attendant Diana Fairechild sees to your in-flight comfort in Healthy Flying. The MCW International Travelers Clinic provides links to international health organizations and bulletins: U.S. State Dept. travel warnings, W.H.O. info, and even the CIA World Factbook.
| With Eagle Creek gear, electrical gadgets, and modem adapters, Travelers Emporium Online Store has the goods for the digital nomad. |
| Strictly Continental: European Rail Travel Index; European Travel Commission; and European Travel Network want to make your vacation trouble-free. |
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