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Travel and Destinations

ATM Locator - MasterCard
More than 430,000 MasterCard ATM locations worldwide, including airports.

ATM Locator - Visa Card
Find the location of the closest Visa ATM anywhere in the world. Select a region, country, then enter a street address or intersection and receive the locations of the three closest ATM machines.

Airline Toll-Free 800 Numbers

Airport City Codes
Helps interpret those cryptic tags placed on your luggage. If you're heading to Abilene (ABI), you won't want to see ABJ (Abidjan) on the tag as your suitcase heads down the conveyor belt, never to be seen again.

Alamo Rent A Car
Fill out online information about when and where you need a car to obtain availability and rates.

Alaska Airlines

Aloha Airlines

America West Airlines

American Airlines

American Automobile Association (AAA)
Includes a searchable database of approved automotive repair facilities.

American Passport Express
For a fee of $59 to $179, this service will expedite renewals and first-time applications for U.S. passports. Each application is hand-delivered to the U.S. Passport Agency, which processes the application and issues the passport. Your passport is then returned to you overnight. Wonderful service if you have to get out of the country in a hurry.

Amtrak
Browse the travel planner for a railroad vacation package perfect for you. You can also use the Trakrouter to map out your own rail travel plans. All aboard!

Avis Car Rental
Make, change, confirm, or cancel car reservations online.

Bed & Breakfast Inns Online
Includes more than 2,000 bed & breakfasts with over 900 pictures.

Cape San Blas Rentals
Features "by owner” vacation rentals on beautiful Cape San Blas in Florida’s panhandle region. Pet-friendly rentals are equipped with everything you’ll need, from linens to free high-speed internet. About 45 minutes east of Panama City, Cape San Blas beaches were voted the #1 Beach in the Nation by “Dr. Beach” Stephen Leatherman in 2002. K9 Magazine also voted Cape San Blas the #1 Dog Friendly Beach in the USA in fall 2006. Fabulous white sugar sand, breathtaking sunsets, abundant wildlife, fishing, golf and tennis await your arrival! Escape to the Cape for your next vacation!

Cheapflights
Cheapflights.com helps you save big with flight deals from airports across the United States, special hotel offers, low-cost car rental options, vacation packages, travel tips and more.

Computerized Travel
Travel-related sites abound on the Internet. While some are excellent, others make me want to stay home. Computerized Travel is one of the pioneer travel Web sites and one of the best because it’s not just a Web site, it’s a travel service that offers genuine personal attention. The owner of San Jose-based Computerized Travel, Lenora Porcella, is a long-time cyber colleague of mine. Lenora was one of the first travel professionals to understand how the Internet would forever change the way travel plans are made. “My intent,” says Lenora, addressing the focus of the Web site, “is to provide a resource for those who prefer to do their own research and reservations as well as for those who are traveling with a laptop and need a quick resource for news, weather, or other travel information. Through the Web site you can view your itinerary, order travel insurance, and foreign currency, book theatre tickets, attractions, cruises, and more.”

Continental Airlines

CruiseTravel
Great deals on cruises. Search for cruises by cruise line or pricing, shop by itinerary or length of cruise, from 1- to 5-day quickie getaways, to three-month or longer “fugitive-on-the-run” cruises.

Cruises, Inc.
Specializing in -- can you guess? That's right, cruises of all kinds. Check out the 360-degree virtual ship, stateroom and public area tours of more than 80 different ships. It's almost like being on-board. Bring your Dramamine!

Currency Converter
Want to know how many Zloties to the Markka or want to change your Renmimbis into Rupiahs? Just type in a dollar amount and receive the conversion rate. Impress your friends!

DangerFinder
The site for people who do not consider their vacation complete unless they have lost at least one limb. A haven for adrenaline junkies!

Date and Time Gateway
Provides local time for every major city and region around the world.

Delta Airlines

Discount Car Rentals

Elderhostel
A non-profit organization providing educational adventures all over the world to adults age 55 and over. Elderhostel is for people on the move who believe learning is a lifelong process.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Go Native's Guide to Bed & Breakfast Inns
More than 8,000 U.S. bed & breakfast listings updated weekly.

Go Ski!
Latest skiing news, reviews, reports, and conditions from around the world.

Hertz Rent A Car

InsideFlyer
Each month, the members-only Inside Flyer provides visitors with a close look at the latest news from the frequent-flyer club that you belong to; including a complete run-down of airline, hotel, car rental and credit card bonuses; individual program reviews; editorial and pro-active leadership on travel program issues, the Best Bets of special bonuses and awards and special features such as Mileage Makeover and WiseFlyer. Inside Flyer helps readers optimize miles both on the redemption and earning side of the programs. Magazine subscriptions are $45/year; Internet only memberships are $12/year.

MapQuest
Great for planning destination routes. Click TripQuest and enter your starting and destination points with an address and city. Receive detailed best routes and streets to travel.

MonsterMoving.com
Few things in life are as stressful as moving from one house to another or to another city. Tying your life's possessions to the back of your Uncle Rudy's pickup truck is no way to do it. This site makes the entire process of moving easier and less expensive. Here you can find a mover, estimate your costs, purchase insurance, create a "moving day" check-list, and even turn utilities on or off. There's also a semi-helpful glossary, e.g.: "Truck: (See Uncle Rudy.)"

National Car Rental

National Weather Service
National Weather Service: Internet Weather Source Obtain weather conditions for the past 24 hours, forecasts, watches, and warnings for the U.S. Includes radar graphics, weather maps, also International weather conditions, aviation and marine weather.

Park Search by L.L. Bean
The great outdoors now at your fingertips! Search the nation's parks and forests by state, region, name or service. This site includes more than 1,500 recreation areas. Be sure to wear your tough, waterproof-yet-breathable three-layer Gore-Tex, all-conditions parka with optional fleece lining when surfing the Web in colder climates.

Planet Rider
The best travel sites: From lodging to restaurants, from sports to nightlife, from culture to cruises, the Planet Rider researchers have reviewed more than 250,000 Web sites, eliminated the junk (over 95 percent!), while keeping only the best, most informative and useful sites. Cool!

Priceline.com
A very popular buying service that lets you name your price for airline tickets, hotel rooms, home financing services and automobiles. Post the amount you're willing to spend and guarantee your offer with a credit card. Priceline then tries to find a seller.

Qixo Airfare Search Engine
Looking for the best airfares on flights that best fit your schedule? Qixo searches more than 20 popular airfare sites and finds you the best prices and flight times.

Rent-A-Wreck of America
Over 400 franchises worldwide make it fairly easy to rent a used car, truck or van.

Southwest Airlines

Thrifty Car Rental

Time Zone Converter
Can't remember if Lubumbashi is 16 hours ahead or 9 hours behind Yekaterinburg? Not sure if it’s tomorrow morning in Kiritimati or yesterday afternoon? If you're among the chronologically challenged, this site is for you. Find out what time it is anywhere in the world with a click of the mouse.

TravLang Translating Dictionaries
Type in a word in the Source language field and select your Target language, then click the Translate button. Translates from or into any of 37 languages, from Afrikaans to Zulu. Really.

Travel Health Information
Preventative health care services for travelers planning trips abroad. Travel resources include maps and other travel information, directories of clinics and physicians, as well as travel warnings, and information about emergency medical services.

Travel Secrets
Tips and tricks for the shrewd traveler.

TravelDog
For people who prefer to travel with their pooch.

TravelWeb
One-stop travel planning and shopping for airfare, hotel, car rentals. Lists 14,000 hotels in 133 countries.

Travelocity
Offers schedules for more than 700 airlines, reservations and ticketing for more than 400 airlines, and reservations for more than 34,000 hotels and 50 car rental companies.

USAir

United Airlines

Universal Packing List
Create a custom packing list for any trip. If you’re a to-list kind of person, you’ll love this! Select from a variety of drop-down menus the type of trip you’re going on, the time of year, temperatures, accommodations, activities while you’re at your destination, transportation, and your choice of including normal travel items or just critical items, if you want to travel light…or is it lightly? Let’s just say if you want to travel with minimal luggage.

Weather Channel, The

WeatherPost
Weather information, courtesy of the Washington Post, for more than 3,600 cities worldwide

Yahoo! Maps
Enter an address for a map or for driving instructions and obtain a detailed map that you can zoom in and out of for more or less detail.

Zagat Restaurant Survey
America's best, lip-smacking dining guide, with rankings and reviews by restaurant-goers in New York, Paris and other cities.