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Last checked 8/15/2002

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  • 25 Best Travel Sites as determined by Kiplinger.
  • Travelocity5 stars is a pretty comprehensive site with fares, hotels, car rentals, etc.
  • Microsoft's Expedia5 stars is a travel planner. You can book air, rent a car, get a map, etc. It also has a Hotel Pinpointer that lets you pick a hotel close to where you want to be. Requires cookies.
  • kayak.com allows you to book air, hotel, and cars. Basically, a search site but more.
  • SideStep scans travel sites to aggregate the hotel and flight deals on one site.
  • Orbitz Orbitz was created by United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Continental Airlines, Northwest Airlines, and American Airlines to serve their customers.
  • Fodor's Travel Guide is new to the Web but has good information already.
  • Internet Travel Network
  • Atevo uses Internet Travel Network (ITN) to book reservations and give price quotes.
  • CNN's Interactive Travel Guide is an easy to use, effective low-fare tracking system. Uses Internet Travel Network (ITN).
  • Travel Time has sections on hotels, cars, planes, vacation packages, etc.
  • TravelZoo has air fares.
  • Epicurious Travel has travel tips and bargains.
  • Yahoo's Travel Sites - it's from Yahoo so you know it's good.
  • Frommer's The webmaster declares that this site is "the largest travel site on the web with 6,000 pages of bargain priced tickets and trips". If you like Frommer's books then this Web site is for you.
  • MapQuest5 stars has great maps and also has maps of major airports, national parks, and scenic drives. You can get traffic reports, road closings, and you can even get a arial photo of a select point. You can select locations as intersections of roads without knowing exact address.
  • Microsoft's ExpediaMaps is useful but not as good as MapQuest.
  • Away.com specializes in once-a-lifetime trips.
  • RCI VacationNet
  • Roadside America4 outta 5 has some great day trips.
  • FlightTracker - you enter the airline, tail number, flight number, or departure/destination to find a flight's status. This is real time flight data so it only shows flights that are flying, have recently flown, or are about to take off. BizTravel also has a flight tracking service.
  • Werner's Not Disney Theme Parks, Fairs, and Amusement Parks also includes some Disney links. Go figure.
  • TheTrip has advice, transportation strategies, flight availability, prices, etc. You need to register to make reservations, however. This site uses the Internet Travel Network (ITN). No vacation packages.
  • JourneyWoman has travel information aimed at women travelers.
  • TravelWeb allows you to check out hotel accommodations and flight availability.
  • The Total Yellowstone Park Page and The Official Yellowstone Park Page contain all you'll ever want to know about the park.
  • The National Park Network has everything you'd want to know about the national park system.
  • Hertz
  • National Car Rental
  • BreezeNet's Guide to Airport Rental Cars5 stars is a comprehensive site. How to rent, what to rent, how much will it cost, prices, coupons, discount rates, reservations.
  • Great Outdoor Recreation Page - GORP
  • Learning Vacations has a list of places you can go to learn while vacationing.
  • Biztravel has specialty trips.
  • State Department has travel warnings.
  • InfoSpace's MyTown tries to give local information such as maps, restaurants, weather, etc. Seems to only cover the big cities, however.
  • US State Department's Travel Warnings - a site that is useful when traveling abroad.
  • Universal Currency Converter shows the exchange rate for currency.
  • TravelBase lets you make accommodations in most major cities (It even listed 8 hotels for New Hope).
  • Rand McNally Store sells maps and all things related to maps.
  • Theme Parks is the about.com collection of theme part sites.
  • Corbis Travel Photos includes pictures of just about every destination you can think of.
  • PlanetRider is an index of travel sites.
  • Puerto Vallarta
  • Hotel Guide lets you search their database for the kind of hotel that you desire.
  • Speed Trap tells you where all of the speed traps are in your area. Pretty thorough.
  • World Climate tells what the usual climate is like at any time and any place in the world.
  • ATM Locations or ATM Locations has the locations of ATM machines all over the world.
  • Time Zone Information from the US National Observatory.
  • Cruise Guide from the National Geographic folks.
  • Lonely Planet has travel advice and information for the average traveler. (Hint: if you want to know how to rent a Lexus, you are not an average traveler.) Ideas for trips for those who have 'destination-block'.
  • SFStation has information on San Francisco.
  • TravelSmith sells bags, gadgets, and clothing for the traveler.
  • Letravelstore sells bags and gadgets for the traveler.
  • Flight001 sells everything for the traveler.
  • Cruise411 has a CruiseFinder that lets you search for a cruise that meets your specs. The site allows you to investigate the cruise and book it.
  • CruiseMates has a great deal of information on cruises.
  • Timeout has visitor information on a few (less than 50) cities.
  • Debbie Guide is a collection of tips and comments from a couple of avid travelers.
  • Digital City has information on some cities that are beyond the major locations included on most other lists.
  • City Search assists you in finding events and happenings in the big cities.
  • National Center For Infectious Diseases Travelers Health has health alerts for all sorts of locations and advice for travelers.
  • State Guide is a rather chaotic collection of links to sites associated with areas in states. For example, you select a state and than a town within that state and you are presented with a collection of sites related to entertainment, weather, news, things to do, parks, etc.
  • Rough Guides - general travel information, newsletter, info on specific destinations, etc.
  • I Go U Go - another general travel site where people publish their travel journals. Includes picture gallery, message board, etc.
  • C|Net's Travel Search Engine
  • Travel Mom has info on family travel vacations.
  • Smart Living - travel site with info on best prices on air fares, hotels, car rentals, etc. Pretty easy to use..
  • Orlando - travel information about Orlando - attractions, accommodations, etc.
  • One Minute Vacation has a collection of 60 second sound segments from various parts of the world.
  • FlyerTalk is a forum for travelers.
  • Transportation Security Administration - new laws that affect what you can take with you.
  • TravelAxe is a free download that lets you search for hotels on the Web.
  • By The Way is a collection of eatery reviews along the roads of the USA.
  • TerraFly unbelievable detail about neighborhoods along with an aerial view. Kind of cumbersome to use but only because of its wealth of data..
  • Road Food is the place to go to find out about eateries along the way.
  • Menu Pages shows you the actual menus of restaurants.
  • Trip Advisor4 stars - reviews of hotels and resorts including restaurants, maps, discount packages, etc. Enter a destination to get comments from the public.
  • Minimus sells small size stuff like samples and travel size stuff.
  • ChowHounds is a site where good quality food for cheap is king. Plenty of info on where to go to eat well for less.
  • Travel Pod is a blog. You can read other's thoughts on their travels and places that they visited. Often informative.
  • AccuTraffic - has realtime traffic information as well as a bunch of other data on scheduled road and bridge closings, rail schedules, public transportation, etc..
  • Google Traffic Maps shows you where the roads may be under repair or blocked. You can see a satellite view, a map view, or combined. Neat.
  • TurnHere.com is an online catalog of short films about individual cities and neighborhoods. Narrated by locals, the clips provide a behind-the-scenes look at the places depicted in a way that traditional guidebooks never will.
  • World Wikia has information about city environs entered by folks who visited. You get down-to-earth reviews of places, resorts, destinations, etc.
  • Virtual Tourist seems to have very useful information about cities especially stuff like public transportation, spots to avoid, local customs, and general tips. This is information that has been submitted by the public. The site also hosts a few travel forums.
  • TripKick - shows you which rooms of hotels are best.
  • WikiTravel - is a great site for travelogue type information.
  • MapJack - has pictures of places in the style of Google maps except that the pictures are sharper. Mostly covers big cities.
  • lastminute.com specializes in getting you tickets, car rental, rooms, etc. at the last minute without having to pay exorbitant fees.
  • MenuPages has menus from restaurants all over the country.
Airlines & Airports
Philadelphia/Local
Maps

  • MSN Maps5 stars You can get driving directions or get a listing of the businesses in the general vicinity. You can enter a location by address or by name. Maps are very detailed and easier to zoom and position than most other sites.
  • MapQuest5 stars has maps for any location - "...extremely accurate...". It also can give you a remarkably detailed overhead view of most places.
  • Google Maps You put in your address and then can see a bird's eye view of your destination (or neighbor's house. The site allows you to superimpose a map on top of the satellite view. It allows you to enter text and other objects on the map.
  • EveryScape - piggybacks on Google Street View and lets you see inside of buildings. Not a lot of data yet but could be promising.
  • Live Search - not to be outdone by Google, Microsoft brings you this Web based mapping application that allows you to zoom in on your destination. The views tend to be clearer than the other services. You have to install a small client unlike any of the other search engines. The site requires a plug-in which is annoying.
  • AskCity Local5 stars - Ask.com's mapping and search site - similar to Local Live, Google Maps, and Yahoo Local. You can add text and objects to the map and then save it as a snapshot. You can search for businesses or an address and get maps. You can place pins for locations on the maps, draw on the map, put text on it, etc. It seems like you can get in closer in the aerial view, also.
  • Yahoo! Local Maps Not to be outdone by Google, Yahoo brings you this Web based mapping application. that allows you to zoom in on your destination. The site allows you to superimpose a map on top of the satellite view.
  • Google vs Yahoo vs MSN is a comparative review of the three biggies.
  • FlashEarth uses Flash and Google maps to allow you to zoom around the world. You can optionally overlay the graphic view with the names of streets.
  • Map Services Review - this is a comparison of map services from PC World.
  • Maps On Us creates very detailed maps of locations. Will also provide a turn-by-turn itinerary given a start point and an end point. Accuracy is suspect, however.
  • Interesting Maps has links to map sites.
  • AutoPilot Highway Trip routing system actually creates an itinerary between trip points that the user enters. Also, identifies hotel facilities and restaurants along the way.
  • Zip2 is a yellow pages directory that includes door-to-door maps.
  • The US Census' Tiger Maps are based on longitude and latitude coordinates but they are pretty detailed.
  • NJ Maps has general maps as well as door-to-door directions.
  • Topozone has topographical maps. Requires you create an account but then offers topographical maps including GPS coordinates.
  • Maptech has topographical maps and nautical charts.
  • Microsoft Terraserver is a very large database of pictures of the earth. You can zoom into an incredible amount of detail down to where you can see streets and buildings. Update: It appears that the detail has been drastically reduced.
  • Maporama - international maps.
  • National Geographic Map Machine has pretty detailed topographical maps. Also has a 'Map Machine' that lets you see road-level maps all over the world.
  • Traffic Info- Construction alerts, traffic conditions, road closings - national by state.
  • Mappoint is Microsoft's map site. Directions can be transfered to PocketPC's.
  • Google Traffic Maps of Philadelphia shows you where the roads may be under repair or blocked. You can see a satellite view, a map view, or combined. Neat. Other cities are continually being added.
  • GMap Pedometer - another Google map application that displays the difference between any points on a map (down to small fractions of a mile). You can also get the number of calories that would be burned by walking the described route.
  • Essential Resources for Google Maps is all about using Google Maps for all kinds of things like finding gas station prices, very detailed weather maps in real time (down to the block level), etc.
  • A9 Maps - yellow pages of maps - graphically find services and shops.
  • Hopstor - shows directions for those without a car including mass transit stops. The site includes panoramic pictures of places along your route. Only has a few cities so far.
  • National Geographic Map Machine- uses google-like technology to let you create maps using one of the existing themes like average temperature, or land use category, etc.
  • MoreMap - is a great 'mashup' based on Google maps. It finds weather stations, tracks packages, finds earthquakes and banks, reports on traffic, etc. Pretty cool stuff.
  • National Geographic Map Machine
  • Walk Jog Run is a Google Earth mashup that allows you to map your hike to see who far it is.
  • Gmap Pedometer Using a Google mashup, you can map your hike or run and see how far it is.
GPS
  • GPS Magazine has the best and most thorough reviews of GPS devices. Reviews include many pictures.
  • GPS Tracklog has decent reviews of GPS devices and accessories.
  • GPS Review doesn't rank the devices but has a nice side-by-side feature comparison.
  • GPSpasSion - blog for GPS freaks.
  • GPS Forums sponsored by GPSpassSion.
  • GPS Forums sponsored by GPS Review.
  • Pocket GPS World has a lot of info on GPS although it is Britain based.
  • GPS Lodge - reviews, news, advice, gossip, etc. about GPS.
  • Rated 4 Stars - reviews GPS devices that are rated 4 stars or higher.
  • POI Factory is a forum about POI (Points of Interest) databases for GPS devices.
  • How to Create POI Databases is a nice step-by-step set of instructions on how to create and load a POI database.
  • POIFriend - is a site for sharing points of interest (POIs) for GPS devices. The site has instructions on using the databases and for submitting your own.
  • EasyGPS is free software that allows you to download and upload favorites and points of interest to and from your GPS.
Hotels
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