Hello everyone!

I am not a newbie to travel in England (I have been several times) however this time I am at a sort of a loss. I need to figure out what order to do attractions in in each of the cities we will visit. I was wondering if any of you have any websites that will allow me to plan an intenerary (visitbritain.com used to, but they closed that feature on Oct. 31 so I am lost!)

Any advice or help you can offer would be most appreciated!!

Thank you!
Jerilyn

Well, your best source/website is -- Right here.

We help folks plan itineraries just about every day . . . . (our collective knowledge is probably more comprehensive than any "trip planning" website)

Collectively, janisj, may be right on the amount of knowledge on this website but the deficiency is that your post may not be noticed. Your post has already dropped to 44 and has only janisj's post and now mine which will move it to the top temporarily.

I think you can get much of what you need at these:

http://www.britainexpress.com/Where_to_go_in_Britain/

http://travelsearch.timesonline.co.u...ountry=England

http://travelsearch.timesonline.co.u...don&query=

http://www.walkit.com/

I'd strongly recommend that - if you feel confident doing so - you hire a car and "tour" the UK (the region/area you've chosen) because part of the beauty of getting out of London is seeing the scenery enroute, and stopping off at "unexpected" places. Brown background signposts will always crop up on your journey and provide the opportunity for some spontaneous sightseeing.

What parts of the UK are you considering?

&quot;<i> . . . . .the deficiency is that your post may not be noticed. Your post has already dropped to 44 . . .</i>&quot;

If this was a thread asking for info about an itinereray it's a fairly safe bet it would have had several responses. We get all sorts of &quot;trip planning&quot; threads that quickly run up to 30 or 40+ posts w/ specific advice.

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Ok, thanks guys. I guess what I really need to do is just post what I would like to do on certain days and hopefully you guys can help me with which order to do things in etc.

Thanks again!!

Jerilyn

jerilyn, be sure to index your next post to the United Kingdom, as you did with this one. That way, people who check for new threads by searching according to country will find it. I'm sure there are others like me who seldom check the column on the left but do check their countries of interest.

With some targetted use of Google (or any other search engine for that matter) you can find out information on local attractions for where you're going to be. From your post, it sounds like you've already got an idea of your itinerary; use Google to get the address of the &quot;Tourist Information Centre&quot; for the towns/cities/regions you're visiting and you're well on the way... those sites will list local attractions, with links. If you need specific feeback on what's good in what cities, suggest you post more specific questions here to canvass other people's opinions...

All that said, I still think having a good book is extremely useful to have in trip planning. Books are well organized, whereas web research can quickly turn into unwieldy files, either on your computer in printouts.

Perhaps others can recommend a comprehensive guide to the UK that allows for browsing and basic decisionmaking, and has useful information about how to get to and from airports, the cost, etc.

I don't really use general guide books for the UK anymore (having lived there and been back countless times)

But for initial planning I always liked the Michelin green guides. There are several covering the whole of the UK and individual regions. They have all the main tourist areas well laid out - and, best feature, descriptions of reasonable driving tours and how long they'd take.

The DK Eyewiness are along the same lines . . . .

Like Janet, I recommend the Michelin guides for the reasons she states. My London Green guide is the 1994/95 edition and the Great Britain Guide is 1997. I also have a 1992 Red Guide of GB and Ireland which has handy maps of cities such as Oxford, Bristol, Royal Tunbridge Wells, etc.

Every once in a while, I'll page thru the first guide book I ever bought. I bought it during my first visit to London in 1948. It is The Book of London, first published in May 1937. My copy is the fourth impression of July, 1948. It is part of a series &quot;The King's England, A New Domesday Book of 10,000 Towns and Villages&quot; of which 37 volumes had been published by 1948. It is full of wonderful bits of info. Did you know that the library of Dulwich College contains 2 painted panels from Queen Elizabeth's barge? BTW that's Elizabeth I.

Michelin is just what I had in mind, although I've not traveled much in England, so I didn't want to personally recommend something I'd never used.

But good to know it works as well in England as it does in Italy, Spain and France.