Best European Travel Web Sites: 2003
What Web sites have helped you plan your trip? What do you like about the various sites? Anything missing that we could add to ours?
Best Travel Websites
www.eurocheapo.com and www.venere.com are two of the best sites for hotels
I've found. I booked all our hotels for a three week trip to Italy in Septemebr
through them. Excelent prices and easy to use. Also, I really enjoy the
slow travelers website at www.slowtrav.com. Although I've never tried renting
an apartment or house in Europe, I am intrigued by the possibility.
David Hochede
Tucson, Az USA Fri 10/31/2003
Prague
There is very useful information about the Czech Republic and Prague at
www.prague-guide.info; www.czecot.com; www.intellicast.com; www.czechtourism.com;
www.spotrebitele.cz; www.idos.cz; www.dp-praha.cz; http://mapy.atlas.cz;
www.europehotels.cz; www.travellers.cz; www.caldana.cz; and www.hotelsprague.cz.
Sarka Pelantova
Prague, CR CR Sun 10/12/2003
Budapest, Hungary Website
I went to Budapest, Hungary recently and found this one site, Talkingcities.co.uk
pretty accurate on what's going on there. Sounded like it was written from
personal experience (which I like) and covered everything from sightseeing
and travel planning to stuff like hotel/flight booking (although I booked
through Delta). I also took up one of their recommendations on a restaurant,
and it turned out to be a really neat place! I checked back recently and
they now have sites to Vienna (Austria) and Prague (Czech Republic too)
so it's certainly worth a look if you're planning to tour that part of Europe.
Todd Taylor
Miami, FL USA Thu 10/09/2003
Info for Crete
Really enjoyed the information and ease of finding way around the website
for Crete in Greece at http://www.cretetravel.com They also have some chosen
hotels, really interesting places to stay - some are luxury and expensive
but also midrpice ones that have lots of atmosphere. Helpful.
Jonathan Bulling
London, UK Thu 08/07/2003
Good Web Sites
I like tripadvisor.com to check reviews about hotels from people who have
stayed there. Also hotelcentral.com has reviews. trenitalia.com is great
for planning train trips in Italy.
Marie
Verona, NJ USA Fri 07/25/2003
Why drive or take the train when you can fly?
Ryanair.com offers cheap flights to many destinations in Europe. Don't expect
much customer service, and they are known to cancel flights, but it can
be significantly cheaper than taking the train.
Christiana Hudson
Hohenecken, DE Wed 06/25/2003
Budget travel site
I recommend TravelPUNK.com. There?s all kinds of backpacker tips, hostels,
Eurail tips, and message boards, and it?s packed with links of all types.
gindiana
WA USA Fri 06/13/2003
Amsterdam
Even if you don't smoke cannabis: http://www.coffeeshop.freeuk.com/ is interesting
and has the best downloadable city center map. http://channels.nl has a
huge amount of info. Check the message forum and the 1000 reviews (hotels,
coffeeshops, restaurants) sections. www.ignatzmice.com is THE Red Light
District site. RLD FAQ, tour and message board. http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/amsterdam.html
online guide- very informative. http://www.alphons.net/ many panoramic photos.
http://www.gvb.nl/ Official Amsterdam transportation site, reisinfo-->lijnenkaart
for a great map.
Larry
Silicon Valley, CA USA Sun 06/01/2003
Guide for Europe
I would have to highly recommend the Guide for Europe website: http://www.guideforeurope.com
It is run by a fantastic Canadian traveler named Kim. She does a fantastic
choice with the site. You can find everything from hostel/hotel reviews,
information on locations and packing, to an incredibly helpfull message
board. If you're planning a trip to Europe this site is a great resource!
Karen E. Penate
Toronto, ON Canada Fri 05/30/2003
DRIVING IN EUROPE
There are some very complicated intersection in Europe. By visitng Mapquest.com,
you can zoom in to 100m, making it easy to track the correct way out of
the interstection. It can save you plenty of time if you miss your exit
at the Autobahn!
MARTIN WHENMOUTH
AUCKLAND, N.Z. Tue 05/27/2003
Teach Yourself Italian
For Italian lessons online, try http://corso.italica.rai.it/
Joan Shaughnessy
Lexington, VA USA Thu 04/03/2003
Bicycling Europe
If any of you are desiring an inexpensive way to visit Europe and truly
want to meet the locals and see more of the land, go biking! Visit my database
website for touring cyclists. It has over 1000 quality, mostly factual,
working links about bicycle touring. Any question you may have will be there!
I am the Rick Steves of Biking Europe!! :) www.homestead.com/bicycletouring
Cheryl Kline
USA Wed 03/26/2003
Great Bargains to Ireland
For my annual trip back to UK this year, I decided to look around and was
glad when I found a great price to Dublin. I used EuropeASAP.com and would
do it again especially since they offer cheap prices for other cities too.
I did the Independant package as it easily beat the prices I got for just
airfares.
Lisa
San Francisco, CA USA Fri 03/07/2003
Euro Rail with your Palm!
Traveling with a Palm to Europe? Take personalized train schedules with
you, without having to lug around the heavy Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable.
You get a season's worth of train times from and to most any train station
on the Continent. Download the free software and plan your travels at http://persoenlicherfahrplan.bahn.de
Steve Dickey
Depoe Bay, OR USA Tue 03/04/2003
Sites
Here are some good sites: www.geocities.com/europedeluxe; www.bugeurope.com;
www.backpackeurope.com; www.the backpacker.com; www.raileurope.com; www.bahn.de
Shawn
vancouver, bc can Wed 02/26/2003
Hostels Guide
Hostelz.com (www.hostelz.com) is the only hostels guide website I've found
with real unbiased hostel reviews. It also has photos, and online reservations,
which many sites offer, but it's the only site with a live calendar with
the actual number of available beds for each day. And the site is completely
free of ad banners, pop-ups, and the clutter that you usually see on most
websites.
dave
san francisco, ca USA Thu 02/13/2003
Great Site for Madrid
I'm planning a trip to Spain this spring and recently found www.multimadrid.com,
a website that would be very helpful for anyone visiting Spain. It's run
by a guy named Jeremy, an ex-year abroad student who is living in Madrid
and makes his living building web pages and renting cell phones to tourists,
year-abroad students, and businesspersons (www.onspanishtime.com, we're
renting one for our trip). The site has a great message board (Jeremy answers
almost all messages personally), webcams of Plaza Mayor and Puerta del Sol,
as well as lots of pictures and video clips of almost everything in Madrid.
I have no interest in www.multimadrid.com (or www.onspanishtime.com). I
just really found it useful and wanted to recommend it to my fellow Back
Door travelers.
Paul Hughes
Albuquerque, NM USA Tue 01/07/2003
Best European Travel Web Sites
I used http://www.planetcharter.com to find things to do while in europe.
It has lots of activities on it.
Jolanda Fennema
Pelham, ON CA Fri 01/03/2003