The Unabridged List of European Travel Websites

WOW!!!!!!!!
THank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Robyn

What an amazing amount of research. Thank you! I'll add a couple

ROME
http://www.inromenow.com

Gourmet travel meals (Los Angeles)
http://skymeals.com/

I am speechless!!!! Wow, bloody hell and all that, what can we say. Well done Aisle Seat.

Thanks so much,
Schnauzer

Just had to reformat my hard drive and lost all my bookmarks - so thanks so much for this!

Thanks Italy06 I added your websites to my list. If any of you have websites that you think are especially good (about just about anthing European Travel) let me know.

I think this is a litte self defense. It takes a lot of surfing to find the ones that actually have the information you need so we need to hang on to the good ones when we find them.

Terrific! Grazie mille.

AWESOME!!!!!!!

Thanks for taking the time to complie, type, and post. You have just helped so many people.

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Thank you for the very extensive list!

Thank you AisleSeat!

Thanks !
I'd like to add for Tuscany
http://nautilus-mp.com/tuscany/indexing.html
scroll down for English.

Thanks!

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Thank you, AisleSeat, your generosity is much appreciated.

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!

Thank you so much.

My brain is exploding. Thanks!

Thanks so much it's useful

Thanks for taking the time to do this AisleSeat!

Wow! Unbelievable - thank you so much AisleSeat! I'll add one to your "general" category:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
quick reference for any country.
Well, for some reason this says it's moved, but if you click the link that says The World Factbook it takes you to the correct page.

For cruises (including in Europe): www.vacationstogo.com

tt

Thank you AisleSeat for taking the time you spent in putting this together!!!

Many thanks for your efforts!

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Italy06 posted my all-time most-recommended: inromenow.com - currecnt listings for culture, music, unusual venues etc.

Other favorites I didn't see above:

www.classictic.com for classical music everywhere in Europe

www.picolalirica.com
Rome's "mini" opera company

www.comuneroma.it
General Rome info

http://en.comuni-italiani.it/index.html
General info on towns all over italy - links to town websites

http://moving2italy2.blogspot.com/
Blog from a couple who include things like market days, etc

http://www.elegantetruria.com/
Covers the area north of Rome called "Etruria" - Viterbo, etc

Now that I've contributed, I won't have to bookmark the thread! Thanks ~

To continue the Rome list, www.romaturismo.com for downloading brochures on itineraries, restaurants, museums, hotels, etc

I knew you guys would have some good sites to include. Thanks to all past and future contributors.

This is a most fantastic resource - thank you very much!

I like http://www.worldinabag.com for a list of budget accommodations.

Thanks!

Not only do I admire your list, AisleSeat, I'm envious of your screen name. Fabulous choice.

This is great, AisleSeat. Thanks

Steve

Thank you for taking the time to post this, AisleSeat!

This is Ab Fab. AisleSeat, You rule!

For Sicily
if you are looking for Hotels

http://www.gate2taormina.

Transfer from airport to resort or Private Tours:

http://www.sicilylimousineservice.com/sicily/index.htm

www.provenceguide.com includes Vaucluse, Luberon, Avignon, etc, a ton Provence brochures about sites, foods, crops.

Switzerland:
http://www.wandersite.ch
Hiking and trekking trails in Switzerland

t

BTW, I copied AisleSeat's first list and pasted it into a Word doc - the links stay, and when you open the doc later you can click on them to open a new window in your browser.

Now to keep adding to that list all the suggestions from others - a great idea, this post.

Buon viaggio~

I appreciate all of you who have added to the original list... I may have to buy more memory for my computer. My list is pretty weak for certain countries and locations.

Any of you with helpful websites for Amsterdam, Spain, Denmark, Prague, Ireland, etc are welcome to chime in. Thanks!

Woouldn't this be LOTS better on a country-specific basis, similar to the Paris super-thread?

Absolutely! Sort it any way you like or any way that is most useful to you.

Thanks AisleSeat. And I thought I had a long list of bookmarks. How many years have you been gathering these?

Actually, about a week. Almost all of them came from this board. Someone else did all the work for me, all I had to do was format it.

I'd add www.irelandyes.com to the Ireland pages, as well as www.dandooley.com for car rentals.

Also http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/ for lovely Scotland info.

Thank you for taking the time to put this together! What great info!

BeachGirl

Thank you for the list.

I just found this site:
www.yapta.com

which supposed to help to track your planned trip's fare and let you know when there is a price drop or increase so you can get the fare hopefully at the lowest price. If you've purchased the ticket already, they can even help to give you a refund... But I haven't used that feature yet. Hope someone else had experience with them on that.

I've been tracking flights on yapta the last couple of weeks. It's a great tool, but with some limitations. For instance, your whole itinerary to be tracked needs to be on one airline, and you have to track specific flight numbers - not just any flight on that day. However, it's a great 'check every day' tool

Wow! Thank you!!!

Thanks so much AisleSeat.

Awesome, thanks!

Bookmarking. (Thank you!)

Thank you!

Bookmarking. Thanks!

Give me you input. Maybe this belongs on a "websites superthread" as you and I add things to it. How do we do that so everyone can help with it and we can all benefit with the latest information?

I don't know, AisleSeat - if it's to be a European list, this may be the best place for it. Anyone at Fodor's have an idea?

Article in this weekend's NY Times travel section ( http://tinyurl.com/36jqd4 )on online travel planning speaks of a new site to start testing this week. InsideTrip.com is supposed to give lots of extra flight info ...

Thanks for compiling this list. It's proved very useful, especially for Paris sites!

I notice, however, that as yet you don't have anything listed for York (UK). May I suggest the following webite: http://www.debretton.co.uk
It's a portal to several excellent hotels, tourist apartments, and restaurants. I'd particularly recommend one of the hotels they list: Four High Petergate http://www.fourhighpetergate.co.uk

Thanks again,
James

Also, I've also found travel insurance from Insure and Go to be very good value.
http://www.insureandgo.com/

Bravo AisleSeat. Thank you very much for this helpful information.

WOW! I am impressed.
Thanks,
Yipper

Thanks, AisleSeat. EJ

Thank you!!

Amazing! Thanks!

Wow!!! Thanks!
Another budget travel website:
www.hostelworld.com - not just hostels, has tons of reviews, etc. for 1-2 star hotels and B&Bs as well.

Holy Cow Aisle Seat! You get 5 gold stars for all this work, and great job with the categories--easy to look through.

To offer my humble contribution as a thank you, I've used www.booking.com for hotel reservations in Europe and found some cheap rates there.

You must have a lot of free time (LOL)!! Thanks so much. Wonderful effort!

Thanks so much for all your hard work!

What a wonderful resource.

Thanks,

FLJudi

Ok help me out again. I have been adding your suggestions to my master list and a few dozen more sites I have found. What next? Would it be better to just repost the new unbridged-unabridged lisst and let this one drift to the bottom? How will it be more useful to the community?

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Hi, I just came back from a Greek trip and I must say please add
greececruiseexcursions.com

They were awesome for my stay in Athens and Cape Sounion.

how did I miss this one...

fodors editors - flyertalk and others let you do "stickies" and this would be a perfect sticky.

Thanks, AisleSeat!!!

What is a sticky and how do you use it?

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Thanks!

If you want to do Europe there's no better way (and much cheaper than hotels) than home exchanging.

Here are a couple of sites:

http://www.homeexchange.com
http://www.intervac.com
http://www.1sthomeexchange.com

tt, thanks!

HI; BM Iris

The german rail site is not www.bahn.de.com, it's just www.bahn.de (& has an English version) useful info for trains all over Europe, gives intermediate stops

That's a fanstaci list! Well done.

To save some money while getting around in Berlin (Germany) I warmly can recommend the Berlin CityTourCard. You can use all public transport services and benefit from the offers of partners in tourism like sightseeing, museums, city tours or city walks, ...

You can buy the Berlin CityTourCard at any ticket counnters and machines of the BVG and S-Bahn, numerous hotels and online under: www.citytourcard.com

According to the card in Berlin there is the Munich CityTourCard. Just browse through the website and have a look!

Wow, great links

But for more practical, i like visit this site :

www.travelis.blogspot.com

you can search, do price comparison and online reservation for flights, hotels, car rentals, cruises & vacation packages in all over the world in a short time.

Wow - so impressed! Can I add, for luxury boutique hotel options:

www.tablethotels.co.uk
www.mrandmrssmith.com
www.i-escape.com

With deep appreciation for the efforts of AisleSeat and others who contributed. Such a valuable resource.

Well played, sir. Well played.

For cheap European flights:
www.germanwings.com is my favorite.

Wow - thanks for this wealth of information and all the work that went into it!

thanks for the info

Thank you! I think a good site is ratestogo.com for last minute (20 days or less) hotels. It worked for great deals at major hotels in Spain last year.

Excellent! Thank you!

Bookmarking for upcoming Paris trip.

Thanks!

Thank you.

This will keep me up 'till the wee small hours.

Bravo. A fabulous list,and much appreciated. Thanks for all the awesome research .

Incredible, AisleSeat, many thanks. LOL OP who asked about your spare time!

I'm not fluent in Fodor posting mechanics but it would be great if you could just add to your current list. This is such an amazing and useful compilation.

Katie???

Hello everyone, i found this post while searching on the web, i think i can add a link to the list:

www.cuendet.com

It's the company i work for, more than 200 villas with pool for rent in Italy, i suggest you to visit it if you plan that kind of staying in italy! oh and btw feel free to drop me a line if you have suggestion on how to improve the site or anything else

PS.
this post is not meant to be spam, i just wanted to add a resource to this list since i see there are commercial listings already

feel free to delete it if you think it's a spammy post.

bookmarking - they will come in very handy! Thanks

Thanks so much. Really great!

For your consideration under "ITALY":
http://www.WebVisionItaly.com

Videos about Italy, includes restaurant and shopping ideas.

Thanks!!

Fabulous job. Most appreciated.

Bookmarking! Thanks for the great references!

What a wonderful helpful thing to think up... Thank you.

We were thrilled with our tour company choice and experience in Athens. So if you would like to enter it under Greece, here it is.
www.greececruiseexcursions.com

WOW... thank you so much for all your work. MUCH appreciated.
D

Thanks for including my cultural website www.elegantetruria.com for itineraries, insider tips, articles about central Italy,
May I add the year old www.italiannotebook.com as a great resource.
Mary Jane

WOW!!
Thanks!!

Bookmarking.

Thankyou

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We built this up a year ago for God's own county

Yorkshire

Four counties each are very different. They are also called the Ridings.
North is the largest with the lowest density of population contains Richmond and York (with its medieval city walls).
West is the most urbanised with good public transport links and a series of small cities of which Leeds is the largest and wealthiest.
East Yorkshire mainly flat with little of interest apart from cities and towns on the coast. South Yorkshire contains some of the Pennine hill range and the old industrial cities of Sheffield and Rotherham.

Public Transport

www.sypte.co.uk South Yorkshire
www.wymetro.com West Yorkshire
www.yorkshiretravel.net Yorkshire
www.dalesbus.org The dales
www.eyms.co.uk East Yorkshire
www.traveline.org.uk UK public transport
www.lbia.co.uk Leeds Bradford Airport

Gardens, castles and ruins

www.harewood.org expensive old house, bird collection and bits of the TV series Emmerdale
www.leeds.gov.uk tropical world large heated plant and animal collection
www.perennial.org.uk one acre garden hidden away
www.boltonabbey.com another fantastic old ruin
www.gardensofyorkshire.com loads of nice gardens

Museums and art galleries

www.royalarmories.co.uk the bits that will not fit in the tower of london and in the summer jousting
www.ysp.co.uk seriously good outdoors sculpture park
www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery good regional gallery (also a design centre underneath and next door the Henry Moore
www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk Henry Moore Institute
www.leeds.gov.uk/templenewsam Country house
www.royalarmouries.org
www.internationaljoust.com

Theatre

www.carriageworkstheatre.co.uk
www.leedsconcertseason.com
www.lcm.ac.uk Leeds college of music
www.leedsgrandtheatre.com
www.northernballettheatre.co.uk
www.operanorth.co.uk
www.cityvarieties.co.uk traditional variety theatre
www.wyg.org.uk West Yorkshire playhouse

Miscellaneous

www.nationaltrust.org.uk
www.english-heritage.org.uk
www.bronte.info
www.uktvhistory.co.uk
www.xscape.co.uk indoor snow

Tourist Office

www.harrogate.gov.uk Harrogate
www.yorkshirevisitor.com Yorkshire
www.visityork.org York
www.visitleeds.co.uk Leeds


I've missed off Saltaire near Bradford which is yet another world heritage site with a fantastic modern art gallery in the first floor




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Author: Morgana
Date: 03/14/2007, 03:41 pm
Hi
This will be really useful for Yorkshire visitors.
May I add a few more. I live locally and am forever being asked about Fountains Abbey (World Heritage site)
Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Gardens
www.fountainsabbey.org.uk
Castle Howard
www.castlehoward.co.uk
Good for accommodation, especially rural Bed and breakfasts
www.yorkshirenet.co.uk
Steam railway through Yorkshire Moors
www.nymr.demon.co.uk/
Yorkshire dales guide
www.yorkshiredales.org

Thanks a lot for your list!! Wow

Never used this web page, but read very good reviews about it in the travel section of The Times during my visit to Scotland in June. It is about train traveling. May be useful...


http://www.seat61.com/

About Paris. Great page. The Forum coordinator answers any specific question quickly.

http://parisbytrain.com/

WOW! I feel like I just hit the lottery! Thanks so much!

seat61 was very helpful to us on our trip to Egypt for the overnight sleeper from Cairo to Luxor - it's a great site.

NICE!! ... Bookmarking

AisleSeat, I so appreciate this list! What an incredible amount of work. Thank you!

thought this looked handy - where you can meet folks in Paris

http://www.eyeflare.com/article/where-meet-paris/

thanks so much

Great Resources for travelers to Europe! Thank You!

I would suggest Jam Transfer as a great airport taxi transportation service in Europe.

Jam Transfer, as I read, provides taxi transfer services in Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia for any number of passengers.

http://www.jamtransfer.com

Sorry, I gave You the link for Jam Transfer in Croatian language.

You can change the language in the top left side of Jam transfer home page or use this direct link for Jam airport transportation service in English

http://www.jamtransfer.com/taxi/index.php?lang=en

http://www.enjoy-europe.com/

Tour Operators Florence

http://www.florencetown.com


Florence Guides

http://www.florencetour.com
http://www.florencetales.com

Italian Villas

http://www.lodgesinitaly.com

mindboggling post! and wonderful for newbies like me!
Thanks all contributors...this really shd be a sticky! but seems like there isn't such a function in this forum??

AisleSeat -

Many thanks for all your research! I've shared this with my daughters who are planning several excursions in the next month.

Great List. Another one I really like is www.secretplaces.com

ttt

I like http://en.escapio.com as they have a great selection of Boutique and Design hotels.

Also the brand new http://www.ciaoflorence.it deserve a visit if you are interested in local multilingual guides...

If you have the time, it would be great if you could post an updated version now and then.

Here's some that I use:

www.laterooms.com Hotels/apartments mostly UK/some Europe
www.lastminute.com same as above
www.doyouspain.com Car Hire in Spain

OMG, ttt

Started in 2008--still lots of good info.

ttt
A great resource!

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thanks so much! TT

Best. Post. Ever! Thanks!

My favorite sites for European trains - www.seat61.com; www.budgeteuropetravel.com and www.ricksteves.com. For schedules yes www.bahn.de - the German Railways web site with schedules and details on nearly all European trains.

Two newer handy Paris food websites:

Paris by Mouth - great reviews, discussions, 5 best in various categories (crepes, wine bars, etc.) - www.parisbymouth.com

La Fourchette - discounts and reservations for various Paris restaurants (not all but a good selection) - www.lafourchette.com

Great...thanks.

If you use Priceline to bid for hotels (best value anywhere) then www.biddingfortravel.com , which used to be the best resource for gauging your Priceline bid, has now been put in the shade in many ways, by this new resource:
http://www.biddingtraveler.com/

It looks to me like Priceline itself came up with this very thorough and detailed bidding-reference (though the site gives no hints about its background nor origins); it makes slogging through www.biddingfortravel.com kind of superflous.

The list of direct hotel booking sites also does not have www.bookings.nl which has now made it to the top of the heap.

if you want to read about events, locations and news about Italy

www.tourisminitaly.info