Getting travel information
Travel information, from links to tourist offices, online maps, and photo galleries to travel guidebooks, magazines, and newspapers
Whether it's traditional travel guidebooks or raking in the reams of free info from local tourist offices , perusing photo databases to help you see a place before you choose to go there, pouring over online maps to find your way, reading newspaper travel sections filled with the latest news in travel, or just discovering a good, glossy travel magazine full of travel possibilities to help whet your appetite, the shortcuts to getting information for your travels are in this section.
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- Trip Planning
- Getting there
- Getting around
- Where to stay
- Hotels
- Alternative accommodations
- Agriturism / farm stays
- Apartments
- B&Bs
- Camping
- Castles
- Chains
- Convents
- Cottages/gîtes
- CouchSurfing
- Crash-ins
- Crewing a boat
- Dude ranches
- Sleep for free
- Historic inns
- Home swapping
- Hospitality exchange
- Hostels
- Hotels
- House sitting
- Monasteries
- Motels
- Mountain huts
- Overnight trains
- Rental rooms
- Residences
- RVing
- Schlaf im stroh
- Servas
- Sleeping in airports
- Universities
- Villa rentals
- WWOOFing
- Reid's recommended hotels
- Sleep for free
- What to see & do
- Planning your time
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Useful Links
Tourism information offices: Officialtravelinfo.com, Towd.com, Visiteurope.com
Guidebooks: Blue Guides (Blueguides.com), Bradt (Bradtguides.com), Cadogan (Cadoganguides.com), Companion Guides (Companionguides.com), Eyewitness (www.dk.com), Fodor's (Fodors.com), Footprint(Footprinttravelguides.com), Frommer's (Frommers.com), Insight (Insightguides.com), Karen Brown's (karenbrown.com), Knopf Guides (Randomhouse.com), Let's Go (Letsgo.com), Lonely Planet (Lonelyplanet.com), Michelin Green Guides & Michelin Red Guides (michelintravel.com), Moon Handbooks (Moon.com), National Geographic (Nationalgeographic.com), Rick Steves (Ricksteves.com), Rough Guides (Roughguides.com), Time Out (Timeout.com)
Maps (physical): Maps.com
, Bn.com
Maps (online): Maps.google.com, Viamichelin.com, Multimap.com, Mapquest.com, Tuttocitta.it (Italy), Streetmap.co.uk (U.K.), Fr.mappy.com (France)
Travel magazines: Budgettravel.com (subscribe), Cntraveler.com (subscribe), nationalgeographic.com/traveler (subscribe), Travelandleisure.com (subscribe), Afar.com (subscribe), Wanderlust.co.uk(subscribe), Outsideonline.com (subscribe) Mensjournal.com (subscribe), Backpacker.com (subscribe) Skimag.com (subscribe), Skiingmag.com (subscribe), Scubadiving.com(subscribe), Islands.com (subscribe),
Caribbeantravelmag.com (subscribe), Travel50andbeyond.com (subscribe), Cruisetravelmag.com (subscribe)
Newspapers: ipl.org, Onlinenewspapers.com, Newslink.org, Customwire.ap.org, Newspapers.com, World-newspapers.com,
Whatsonwhen.com
Photo galleries: Panoramio.com, Lonelyplanetimages.com, Google.com, Wikipidia.org, Gettyimages.com, Corbis.com, Magnumphotos.com
Guidebooks: Blue Guides (Blueguides.com), Bradt (Bradtguides.com), Cadogan (Cadoganguides.com), Companion Guides (Companionguides.com), Eyewitness (www.dk.com), Fodor's (Fodors.com), Footprint(Footprinttravelguides.com), Frommer's (Frommers.com), Insight (Insightguides.com), Karen Brown's (karenbrown.com), Knopf Guides (Randomhouse.com), Let's Go (Letsgo.com), Lonely Planet (Lonelyplanet.com), Michelin Green Guides & Michelin Red Guides (michelintravel.com), Moon Handbooks (Moon.com), National Geographic (Nationalgeographic.com), Rick Steves (Ricksteves.com), Rough Guides (Roughguides.com), Time Out (Timeout.com)
Maps (physical): Maps.com
Maps (online): Maps.google.com, Viamichelin.com, Multimap.com, Mapquest.com, Tuttocitta.it (Italy), Streetmap.co.uk (U.K.), Fr.mappy.com (France)
Travel magazines: Budgettravel.com (subscribe), Cntraveler.com (subscribe), nationalgeographic.com/traveler (subscribe), Travelandleisure.com (subscribe), Afar.com (subscribe), Wanderlust.co.uk(subscribe), Outsideonline.com (subscribe) Mensjournal.com (subscribe), Backpacker.com (subscribe) Skimag.com (subscribe), Skiingmag.com (subscribe), Scubadiving.com(subscribe), Islands.com (subscribe),
Caribbeantravelmag.com (subscribe), Travel50andbeyond.com (subscribe), Cruisetravelmag.com (subscribe)
Newspapers: ipl.org, Onlinenewspapers.com, Newslink.org, Customwire.ap.org, Newspapers.com, World-newspapers.com,
Whatsonwhen.com
Photo galleries: Panoramio.com, Lonelyplanetimages.com, Google.com, Wikipidia.org, Gettyimages.com, Corbis.com, Magnumphotos.com
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