- Suggested Guidebooks
- Web Links
- Reader's Recommendations
Fodor's City Pack with full size color city map - features Top 25 Sights and the book is light and compact.
Frommer's Country Guidebooks - comprehensive country guides with recommendations for hotels, restaurants and sightseeing plus a color country map. Frommer specializes in budget travel.
Bed and Blessings, Italy by June Walsh and Ann Walsh - contains listing and description of various hotels run by religious orders throughout Italy. Many are in former monasteries and in the center of the city. These hotels are inexpensive, very well run and quite comfortable. The only inconvenience might be the 11:00 p.m. curfew at some of these hotels.
Rick Steves Guidebooks and Travel Videos - Steves specializes in introducing unique towns less visited by tourists and recommending the most reasonably priced hotels. I especially like his new travel videos on Bulgaria and Slovenia and Croatia. These countries will possibly be the most visited places in the near future. www.ricksteeves.com
Web Links
www.accorhotels.com for the Accor hotel chain including Mercure, Novotel, Sofitel and Ibis hotels.
www.airportexpress.fr to make reservations for door-to-door transfer from Charles de Gaulle airport to Paris and return.
www.bparis.com for complete city guide of Paris by American expatriates living in Paris.
www.bestwestern.com for Best Western hotels worldwide.
www.bootsnall.com for adventure tours and travel.
www.citysearch.com for guide to many U.S. cities and some foreign ones. Comprehensive list of events, restaurants (and reviews), hotels and more.
www.cdc.gov/travel for travel health information and required vaccinations.
www.csaa.com for travel services from the California State Auto Association.
www.delta.com for online airline reservations. Delta Airlines has the best first/business class known as "Elite" class. The seats are widely spaced for roomy comfort and you have your own DVD to view featured in-flight movies.
www.envergure.fr for the Campanile hotel chains in France and other European countries. Campanile has very good rates for simple, no frills accommodations.
www.dp-praha.cz/en/index.html for information on the Prague Municipal Transport system.
www.frommers.com for latest info on places to go and hot deals on airfares and lodgings.
www.lakbay.net for tours to the Philippines.
www.mapquest.com for maps to destinations worldwide.
www.noord-holland-tourist.nl for the VVV - Holland's tourist information organization.
www.travellady.com for travel ideas and stories.
www.subwaynavigator.com how to get from one point of the city to another using the metro or subway system in many cities around the world.
www.railpass.com for train schedules, point to point travel, maps and prices.
www.state.gov/travel for travel information including passports and visa and travel warnings from the U.S. State Department.
http://travel.yahoo.com has a comprehensive travel guide for travel worldwide.
www.westgroupcompany.com offers apartments in Prague at very reasonable rates.
www.visa.com/pd/atm/main.html for Plus ATM locations worldwide.
www.xe.net/ucc for up-to-date currency conversion.
www.zierer.com for visa and passport services.
Reader's Recommendations
Please send me your recommendations and it will be posted here. Thanks!
