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Travel Links

Planning the logistics of a vacation can be complicated and overwhelming. Our links provide invaluable travel information so that you can find the best hotel and airfare deals, locate a vacation home, and obtain car rental and public transportation options so that your trip is fun and memorable. 

Accommodation Line
www.accomline.com/hotels.reservations
Accommodation Line offers hotel accommodations and discounted hotel rates. They have been providing online reservation services for consumers with over 48,000 accommodation choices in more than 5,600 cities worldwide throughout 126 countries since 1996.

Airport Connection
www.netcapricorn.com/clients/airportconnection/gayot.htm
If you're visiting Paris, Airport Connection provides a simple but efficient airport shuttle service operating 7 days a week between Paris and Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports. Make a reservation on the website and a shuttle will pick you up at your hotel, home or airport terminal and take you to your destination at a fixed price, luggage included if it is the normal airline allowance.

Around the World With Arthur & Barney
www.aroundtheworldradio.com
Veteran travel writers and broadcasters Arthur von Wiesenberger and Barney Brantingham host this informative, entertaining weekly show connecting to live professional travel reports from all four corners of the globe.

At Home in France
www.athomeinfrance.com
Why limit yourself to a small hotel room when a vacation rental home or Paris apartment is friendlier, roomier and comparably priced? Choose from a wide selection of properties in the French countryside or apartments in the heart of Paris. Personally inspected cottages, farmhouses and villas in Provence, Dordogne, Paris and more.

Avis
www.avis.com
Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. and its subsidiaries operate the world's second largest general-use car rental business, providing business and leisure customers with a wide range of services at more than 1,700 locations in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Latin American/Caribbean region.

College Hotel Guide
www.collegehotelguide.com
This college and university hotel guide allows travelers to search for discounted rates at major hotel chains near campuses nationwide.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car
www.enterprise.com
Enterprise Rent-A-Car is the largest car rental company in North America, with more than a half million vehicles in the rental and leasing fleet. Other services offered by Enterprise include car sales, discount program for local business vehicle rentals, fleet management services for businesses seeking leased vehicle fleets, and RideShare vans for commuting groups.

Entree News
www.entreenews.com
This Santa Barbara-based luxury travel newsletter edited by William Tomicki — who's been called "the Rabelais of travel writing" — offers subscribers "critical, no-holds-barred, witty and practical advice, written by experts who have been there."

Expedia
www.expedia.com
Book your hotel reservations, flights, packages, cruises and car rentals all at the same time. Expedia's website lets you preview destinations with 360 degree tours and slide shows. Read about major attractions, culture, weather, and more in their destination guides.

French Waterways
www.frenchwaterways.net/Gayot.html

France Cruises is the U.S. marketing and reservation center for the most luxurious barging vacations in France. With elegant accommodations, outstanding cuisine and fine wines, impeccable service and personalized excursions, no detail has been spared to make cruising the incomparable Upper Loire among the finest of specialty vacation experiences.

Hawaii.com
www.hawaii.com
From the latest travel and online shopping deals to fascinating stories about the Aloha State, Hawaii.com is the premier destination site for those interested in visiting, living in, or moving to Hawaii.

Krakow4U
www.krakow4u.pl
Photos of Krakow's monuments, churches, mounds, Wawel, Kazimierz and many other attractions, plus lots of useful information for foreign tourists.

National Park Service
www.nps.gov
With the designated protection of the Yellowstone region of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, the United States National Park Service was born. Today, the system consists of 388 parks, which range from Joshua Tree in California to Ellis Island in New York. It has also grown to include interpretation, education and conservation programs. The best way to visit the parks is to purchase an annual National Parks Pass. This pass waives fees to all National Parks that charge admission. Eighty percent of pass proceeds to go park preservation, restoration and other related projects.

NileGuide
www.nileguide.com
Create personalized vacation itineraries to numerous locations around the globe with NileGuide. The site allows users to choose a destination, center it around a theme — hip, historical, kid-friendly and romantic are a few of the options — and add hotels, restaurants and attractions of choice to the itinerary. These guides can be customized and printed out, saving money from expensive guidebooks and space in one's suitcase.

Rail Europe
www.qksrv.net/click-950543-1207959
Rail Europe is also the official North American representative for 60 European railroads. On the Rail Europe website you will find transatlantic air at highly competitive rates, complete rail passes, hotels and car rentals. You may purchase Eurail and Europass passes, and special packages through the site.

Rudy Maxa
www.rudymaxa.com
You may be familiar with consumer travel expert Rudy Maxa as the "Savvy Traveler," from his public radio commentary on "Marketplace" and as host of the 39-part public television series, "Smart Travels: Europe with Rudy Maxa." At no charge, you may search his database of past travel articles plus check breaking travel news and last-minute deals on his website.

Travelocity
www.travelocity.com
Travelocity provides Internet and wireless reservations information for approximately 700 airlines, 55,000 hotels and 50 car rental companies. Also available are more than 6,500 vacation packages, tour and cruise departures and a vast database of destination and interest information.

Wandermelon
www.wandermelon.com
Get travel information in one convenient place with wandermelon — an informative, entertaining and unbiased resource for travel news and articles. Sourcing what you need to know before you go, wandermelon gives travelers shortcuts to the world’s best experiences and destinations.


Where to Go Next

www.wheretogonext.com
Where To Go Next is an international travel news service, providing editorial, photographic and graphical content to newspaper, magazines, websites and consumers.

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(Updated: 08/04/11 BH)

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