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Airports guides
Key info for major worldwide airports. Includes transportation, hotels
nearby, facilities, parking and car hire.
www.worldairportguide.com - rating: 
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Internet and Wifi
Atlarge collects reviews and tips about web access at airports.
www.atlarge.com -
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Air Power Wiki provides airports' sockets maps.
airpower.jeffsandquist.com - review - rating:
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- Lounge Guide
A wiki with more than 600 reviews of airports' lounges all over the world done by travellers.
www.loungeguide.net - rating:
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FlightStats
Track flight status, airport delays and other flight and airport info.
www.flightstats.com - rating:
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- FLIGHTS - FARE FINDERS, SEARCH ENGINES
Various Flights Search Engines:
The sites below are useful to research flights' options: you will get
list of flights available and relative schedule and price,
then
you're directed to the airline's or to an online agency sites to book
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Sidestep - merged with Kayak
Travel Supermarket - for UK only
Fare Compare - discounted first or business fares
Search for discounted Y-up fares that are discounted First Class airline ticket
www.farecompare.com - rating:
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- FLIGHTS - ONLINE TRAVEL AGENCIES
Buy flight tickets
directly from these sites.
Some major European online agencies are Expedia,
Bravofly/Volagratis,
eDreams,
Ebookers,
Lastminute/Travelocity
and Opodo/Travellink, Priceline UK.
Air Brokers
Specialized in around the world (RTW) tickets.
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Tripbase
Select
your home airport, when you want to leave and select your interests
among nature, shopping, attractions, dining, nightlife and you'll get
recommendations of destinations. You can further select by budget and
continents. Nice tool!
www.tripbase.com - rating:
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Sidestep buzz
Select
your home airport, continent to fly in and month of departure and
you'll get a list of cheapest flights available. Great tool for week
end breaks.
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Holiday Homes rental:
JustStepsAway - Rent Me A Vacation - Licketytrip - HomeAway
- VRBO
- Owner Direct.
Where is the beach dude
About 10,000 beaches with directions and pictures.
www.whereisthebeachdude.com
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Every Trail
Impressive sharing of people road trips,
sight seeing tours, sailing trips, hiking, cycling, flying, hang
gliding, geocaching, skiing, kayaking trips with detailed maps, GPS
data and pictures.
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HOTELS
- FARE FINDERS, SEARCH ENGINE
Trivago
Searches among 300,000 hotels and looks for the best fare. Reviews and
photos by users of hotels and touristic places.
www.trivago.com - rating:
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Travelaxe
Compare fares for the same hotel from different
sites. Limited selection of cities outside US. Great for US
hotels.
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Vibe Agent
Search
for a location and get a full size map with markers for all hotels in
the area. Look for the best fares among 30 travel agencies and hotels
groups.
hotels.vibeagent.com - review - rating:
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Some major European online agencies are Expedia,
eDreams,
Ebookers,
Lastminute/Travelocity,
Opodo/Travellink, LateRooms.
See Your Hotel
Search for a location and get a full size map with markers for all
hotels in the area and view pictures, video and reviews.
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HOTELS BOUTIQUE - LUXURY - INDIPENDENT HOTELS
Luxuruy
Link
More
than 1000 hotels and resorts, cruises ans villas in more than 60
countries. With savings of up to 70% off on travel auctions and fixed
process offers.
Mainly for leisure travel.
www.luxurylink.com
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Luxury
Travel Butler
Most
exclusive accommodations around the world, hip suggestions as such
"cruise Barcellona in a Harley Davison"and personalised holidays.
www.luxurytravelbutler.com
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Tablet
Hotels
Good choice of indipendent design hotels around the world.
www.tablethotels.com
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Kiwi
Collection
Only the best places for business or leasure (mainly leasure).
www.kiwicollection.com
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Chic
Retreats
Small
boutique hotels or private houses. Good selection if you're looking for
hidden small chic retreats. Booking is directly with the hotel via form
in this website - you'll get email reply with availability.
www.chicretreats.com
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Travel
Intelligence
Excellent reviews of the hotels and a large selection of boutique, chic
or luxury hotels.
www.travelintelligence.com
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Mapplr
Selection of the best boutique hotels and B&Bs by cities from
indipendent travellers. Features maps, too.
www.mapplr.com
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Trip Advisor
Millions of reviews of hotels across the globe. Best place to start to
select an hotel you've not been yet.
www.tripadvisor.com - rating:
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Trivago
Searches among 300,000 hotels and looks for the best fare. Reviews and
photos by users of hotels and touristic places.
www.trivago.com - rating:
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TVtrip
More than 15,000 videos of hotels worldwide to help you to choose an
hotel. Site is available in 5 languages.
www.tvtrip.com - rating:
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Travel Post
Searches among other websites for hotels' reviews and collects more
than 2 millions of reviews. It's part of Kayak so if you want to book a
room from the site, you use the Kayak engine.
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First Luggage
Deliver your luggage door-to-door.
www.firstluggage.com - review
Holiday Autos
Searches fares from Hertz, Alamo, Budget and Europcar for any
destination and manages directly the booking and the payment.
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Master Cars Direct
Searches fares from Alamo, Budget, Dollar, Europcar, Hertz, National,
Thrifty for any
destination and manages directly the booking and the payment.
www.mastercarsdirect.com - rating:
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Avis
Dollar
Hertz
National
Thrifty
Dine
US restaurants only - thousands of restaurants' reviews by users.
www.dine.com - rating:
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Trip Advisor
Largest travel community on the web is an excellent resource to read
users' reviews about restaurants, too.
www.tripadvisor.com - rating:
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Search for restaurants selected by the Michelin guide with maps and tourist sites suggestions.
www.viamichelin.com - rating:
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Mapplr
Neighborhood restaurants and cafes by cities from indipendent
travellers. Features maps, too.
www.mapplr.com
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Trusted Places
Social community with reviews of restaurants, bars, pubs and clubs. Lot
of content for UK places.
www.trustedplaces.com - rating:
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SOCIAL TRAVEL
COMMUNITIES: GUIDES, PICTURES, VIDEOS, TRIP PLANS SHARING
Dopprl
Share
your future trips privately with friends and colleagues. The service
then highlights coincidences, for example, telling you that three
people you know will be in Tokyo when you will be there too and shows
you tips on hotels, restaurants and other places of interest.
www.dopplr.com - rating:
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WayIn
Find
and meet people from anywhere in the world based on location, see where
you friends are, meet up with new people abroad and read through travel
information guides and reviews.
www.wayn.com - rating:
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Trip Say
Register
to create your travel profile. Once you
complete everything, it gives you a map with a bunch of suggested
destinations from travelers like you, whose taste overlaps with
yours. Share with other members tips and ratings.
www.tripsay.com - rating:
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Travellerpoint
A
travel community with a blogging platform,
wiki travel guide and photo gallery.
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Iloho
A
travel community with itineraries, trip and airlines reviews, tips,
videos, photos.
www.iloho.com - rating:
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Wikitravel
The wikipedia for travel guides. Lot of content and available in many
languages.
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World66
Similar to wikitravel with more than 20,000 destinations' reviews.
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TripNTale
Social travel community with trips journals, maps, videos and photos
with free unlimited storage.
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Yahoo Travel Guides
A lot of useful info for many destinations with reviews and trip plans
by users. You can create your own customized
travel guide.
www.travel.yahoo.com
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TravBuddy
Popular social travel community with reviews and tips for many
worldwide destinations.
www.travbuddy.com
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Real Travel
Social travel community with 27,000 destinations and free travel blog.
www.realtravel.com
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Travelistic
Travel videos only done by the users' community or uploaded by
touristic boards.
www.travelistic.com
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Social network with travel tips and reviews. German version, too. www.cosmotourist.com - rating:
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Social travel community spread all over the world. Destinations pages are well organized.
www.boo.com - rating:
- Bahn
Find train times between stations anywhere in Europe.
www.bahn.de
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Extravigator
Forum about luxury travel: tips for hotels, restaurants and spas.
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Trip Advisor Forum
Likely the most comprehensive travel forum online, any travel question
(and answer) is there!
www.tripadvisor.com - rating:
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Other excellent forums, similar to Trip Advisor:
Fodors - Frommer's.
Flyer Talk
Frequent fliers forum with many tips to maximize loyalty programs
benefits.
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TripTouch
Attractions, events, maps, weather, photos, shops, eat, drink, how to
get in by location. Still in beta and complete info available only for
major
destinations.
www.triptouch.com
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World Travel Guide
Good selection of worldwide cities with key info. You can print your
own guide by selecting the sections you're interested in.
www.worldtravelguide.net
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Guides to download by
Travelguides
PDF files to dowload free cities guides for Amsterdam, Barcelona,
Florence, Rome, Venice, Auckland, Australia, Sydney, Bangkok, Beijing,
Singapore and Cape Town.
www.travelguides.com
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Geobeats
Video-based travel guides, few destinations covered but great tips and
info.
www.geobeats.com - review - rating:
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World Hum
Great travel stories—through writing, conversation, slideshows and
videos.
www.worldhum.com - rating:
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Airboy Blog
Blog by 23 y.o. French flight attendant working for Emirates and
located in Dubai.
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Weather 2 travel
Get average monthly weather conditions for cities around the world.
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TripIt
Get
all your bookings from agencies, hotels, trains, airlines and prepare a
single itinerary for you including maps, directions, weather and your
notes.
www.tripit.com
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Flight Memory
Get
all your bookings from agencies, hotels, trains, airlines and prepare a
single itinerary for you including maps, directions, weather and your
notes.
www.flightmemory.com
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Google Transit
Find the best way to go from A to B in about 400 cites around the world
using public transport.
www.google.com/transit
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Rebel Fone
International mobile phones for hire to avoid roaming costs.
www.rebelfone.com
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Track all your loyalty programs (airmiles, hotels, car rentals) in one single place without the need to access multiple websites.
www.usatoday.deskport.biz - review - rating:
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- Electric Power
List of electrical systems by country: kind of plug, voltage and frequency.
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