SubWWWay - Moving On Out
- Quickaid has airport and airline information for the USA and around the world.
- The Airport Search Engine contains more than 200 links to airport pages around the world, though most are in North America.
- Epicurious Travel's Terminally Hip helps you round over 100 airports worldwide.
- Want to maximize your frequent flyer points? FrequentFlier has handy hints and historical info.
- The Argonne National Laboratory has developed a feast-fast-feast-fast Anti-Jet-Lag Diet for the time-zzzzzzone traveller.
FLIGHT RESERVATIONS
Most of the on-line flight reservation services need credit card details and will only deliver to North American addresses. Users from other areas can still browse available flights and fares.
- The Internet Travel Network is easy to get around and hooks up with travel agents around the world. Unfortunately, the flights they come up aren't particularly cheap.
- Flifo has an easy log-in procedure, comes up with cheaper flights than ITN and is more flexible. Its 'fare beater' is the best on the web.
- Microsoft's Expedia definitely has the prettiest interface and once you're registered they'll save your itinerary.
- Easy Sabre's menu driven interface verges on the obstructionist, but there's good information in here if you can ever get to it.
- Travelocity is good once you've got past the frustrating log-in procedure.
- Global Travel Network books cars and hotels as well as flights.
- The folks at Epicurious have put together hints and links to help you find Airfare Bargains on the Net
- travel.com.au handles bookings for travel out of and around Australia.
CUSTOMS
- One Stop-Shop is a guide to customs, duty free and prohibited imports for a number of countries.
SETTLING IN
- The Hotel Guide claims to have the largest database of hotels in the world. There's 58,000 of 'em, and they're everywhere from Ljubljana to Burkina Faso to Canberra.
- The Internet Guide to Hostelling has lots of info for hostel-bound travellers. For a more in-depth look at Europe, including the 'top five', try Hostelwatch, or the new Hostels of Europe.
- Just like being at home, only elsewhere. Home Exchange is a service which helps you swap houses with people overseas - it's an excellent alternative to hotels.
GETTING AROUND
- Rail Travel Information provides continent-by-continent timetable links.
- Get the lowdown on your big European swing at the Europe by Eurail site.
- If you're even thinking about maybe perhaps driving a car around Europe one day, go to moto europa right now. It has everything you'll ever need to know.
- RailEurope has information on fares and schedules, national and multinational rail passes and car rental.
- Amtrak's site allows you to plan an American rail journey, check schedules, see maps of your chosen route and read about the sights along the way.
- Greyhound's site has bus-fare and schedule information for the USA and Canada.
- The Subway Navigator can help you around the world's metro systems.
- The Association for Safe International Road Travel site could be more informative. Nevertheless, it does contain some useful tips and facts relating to safe road travel.
- If you've been looking everywhere for information on freighter travel, you've finally come to the right place: the Internet Guide to Freighter Travel.
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