The Travel Page
Airlines
& Airports
Flight Reservations & Details
Customs
Settling In
Getting Around
AIRLINES AND AIRPORTS
Quickaid
has airport and airline information for all over 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 & DETAILS
Indian users can browse available flights and fares on the
following sites. Tickets can be bought on only International Credit Cards.
- 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.
- Big Eye's
site is straightforward enough, and consists of links to travel sites with a short rundown
on each.
- 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
Whatever the country of your traineeship,
AIESEC provides lodging to a trainee for the tenure of his/her traineeship. However the
following links could be useful in case of an emergency or change of plans.
- 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 and 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.
- The new ResortsandLodges.com
is not a complete listing by any means, but it does have plenty of accommodation and you
can search by category. You can supplement it with Resorts
Online to start getting a fuller picture.
- 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
Travel around, sightsee, but how ?
- 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.
- Hitch a
Ride Do we advise it ? But then, hey, what if you should need it ?
- 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 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.