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General Info &
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Local Transportation
Outdoor Recreation
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RV & Camping
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Things to See
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Travel in Florida & U.S.
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Accommodations
Accommodations Online:
Find hotel accommodations
in the U.S. and worldwide. The listings include inns, hotels, bed &
breakfasts, and resorts. Expedia.com:
Easy to use online reservations for air travel, hotel, car rentals, rail, and more.
Bedandbreakfast.com:
24,000+ bed and breakfasts worldwide are listed here.
Florida
Directory of Bed & Breakfasts, Inns, and Small Hotels:
Site
also includes links to lodging in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, plus hospitality property for sale.
Hostelling International:
Info provided includes
cost and description of facilities in U.S. and international directories. Orbitz:
Easy to use online reservations for air travel, hotel, car rentals, rail, and more.
Travelocity:
Easy to use online reservations for air travel, hotel, car rentals, rail, and more.
Tripkick:
Get ratings on hotels (add yours, too), info on which hotel floors
are the noisiest, which rooms to avoid, and more.
U.S.
Directory of Inn's, Bed & Breakfasts, and Small Hotels:
Browse a list of links to U.S.
bed & breakfast sites. Search by region and city.
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Air Travel
Cheap Tickets:
It buys unsold tickets from 50 airlines and then sells them
at a savings to you. Expedia:
A comprehensive travel site with fares, reservations, and travel info from Microsoft.
Hotwire:
Another
comprehensive travel site with fares, reservations, and travel info.
Orbitz:
Easy to use online reservations for air travel, hotel, car rentals, rail, and more.
Orlando International Airport:
Get
a diagram of the airport, flight schedules, and more.
Priceline:
Name your own price for airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars,
prepaid long distance, and cars!
Travelocity:
Easy
to use online reservations for air travel, hotel, car rentals, rail,
and more.
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Gas Price Watch:
"Power
to the people at the pump!" Find the lowest gas prices in your neighborhood. Search by address and/or zip code.
Orlando Gas Prices:
A
simple chart tells you where to fill
up without hurting your wallet. The site also offers
nationwide historical gas price charts as
far back as 3 years.
Tank
of Gas:
"Check out our best picks
guide for fun day trips and quick weekend escapes—all just a tank of
gas away!"
Trip Gas Price:
Use
AAA's free tool to "calculate
the estimated fuel cost of your trip." Costs are estimated by AAA's daily fuel gauge report &
highway fuel economy ratings from the EPA.
General Info & Maps
Expedia.com: Maps:
Get door-to-door driving directions to any destination in North America from Microsoft's Expedia travel site.
Fodor's Travel Online:
Create
a customized travel guide to 99+ cities worldwide.
How Far Is It?:
Calculate the distance between two places
and see a map. Lonely Planet Online:
Along
with maps and travel tips, here you
can find "eKno," which offers free voice mail and e-mail for folks on
the road. Longitude Books:
"This site allows you to click on a map for a list of essential reading for more than 100 travel destinations."
MapBlast:
Offers interactive maps, driving directions, business finders, and
local yellow pages. MapQuest:
Provides maps for places all over the world plus driving directions
for the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
Nina
Blue:
Travel info for those with children. Find
family-friendly places, events, and accomodations.
Rough Guides:
Get travel info for 4,000+ locations around the
world. The
Travel Insider:
"...we strive to
deliver you unbiased travel information that will save you money. We are opinionated, and not afraid to tell you
when we find something we don’t like." Find good travel deals and more.
The Weather Channel:
Extremely comprehensive site for weather info around the country and the world, including 5-day forecasts for hundreds of cities,
current radar, and traveler's forecasts.
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Travel Transportation
Amtrak:
Amtrak's web page provides a wealth of info for train travelers, including train routes, schedules, ticket prices, and more.
Expedia:
A comprehensive travel site with fares, reservations, and travel info from Microsoft.
Orbitz:
Easy to use online reservations for air travel, hotel, car rentals, rail, and more.
Travelocity:
Easy to use online reservations for air travel, hotel, car rentals, rail, and more.
International Travel Info
Accomodations
Online:
Find
hotel accommodations in the U.S. and worldwide. The listings include
inns, hotels, bed & breakfasts, and resorts.
Bedandbreakfast.com:
24,000+ bed and breakfasts worldwide are listed here.
Cruise411.com:
Search cruise offerings from
28+ cruise lines, compare special interest cruises, read up on reviews and awards. All
cruise reservations booked through this site are discounted 10%.
Europe:
Maintained by the 29-nation European Travel Commission, this site is
full of activities, attractions, and perspectives.
European
National Railways and Timetables:
Links to the websites of national railways and timetables.
Hostelling International:
Info provided includes
cost and description of facilities in U.S. and international directories. Searchable by state & city,
or worldwide by
country. OANDA Currency Site:
Calculate the exchange rate for 100+ currencies.
Passport
Services:
From the U.S. Department of State. Information on Vital Records and Passports including where to apply.
RailEurope:
Book all types of European rail passes and tickets online.
Travel Health:
From the Center of Disease Control -- includes vaccine requirements,
disease outbreaks, country health info, & other items of
interest to the traveler.
Universal Currency Converter:
Select "convert from" and "into" to calculate
the currency equivalence from over 50 countries.
U.S.
Department of State Travel Warnings:
Info on areas of the world where travel is not advised.
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LYNX:
Maps and schedules of all the bus routes.
Orlando International Airport:
Diagram of airport, flight schedules, and other useful facts.
Outdoor Recreation
GORP: the Great Outdoors Recreation
Page:
A gateway to attractions of the world: 20 outdoor activities from
caving to windsurfing, locations, gear, tours, recipes,
books and
art with outdoor themes.
Trails.com:
This site offers detailed info on 18,000+ trails in North America. Check out the
maps,
trip planners, and online store.
RV &
Camping
Kids' Camps:
A comprehensive, international listing of summer
camps -- residential, themed, special needs,
family. It
also lists "grown-up"
camps and jobs.
Woodall's Camping
Directory:
Info for campers and RV enthusiasts, including links to campgrounds, RV's, and anything associated with RVs.
[top of page] Things to See & Do in Central Florida
Absolutely Florida:
Read
about the
"other" Florida in this monthly magazine.
FLA USA:
A complete guide to Florida vacations.
Go2Orlando:
Produced by Orlando Sentinel Interactive, this site puts a heavy
emphasis on Central Florida entertainment options; includes
up-to-the-minute news. Make customized maps.
A Guide to Orlando and
Central Florida:
Central Florida from A-Z for the tourist and resident.
Florida State
Parks:
A
listing of 150+ park areas in Florida that can be accessed by
area, recreational activities, or alphabetically. Includes
a calendar of events and links to other U.S. parks.
Travel in Florida & U.S.
CitySearch:
A city guide megasite with urban-focused guides for nearly 100
cities. Color Landform
Atlas of the 50 States (includes travel info on the 50 states):
Provides a relief map and other maps for each state,
plus a list of links to travel and geographical info on each state.
Desert USA:
Desert USA is dedicated to desert travel and desert
living.
Includes articles on desert travel, scenery, animals, etc.
National Parks Info:
Homepage of the National Park Service.
Offers info about visiting the parks and links to various park
resources. USA Tourist:
Get budget, driving, and lodging tips here. U.S.
City Visitors Bureaus:
Yahoo! provides this list of links for
travel and tourism information bureaus.
Yahoo!'s U.S.
Travel Links:
An extensive list of links to travel resource on the World Wide Web
courtesy of Yahoo! subject directory.
For more
materials on this subject available through the Library, visit
Starting Points - Travel.
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