Best Traveler's Information Websites - please add your favorites
 

I do a lot of planning before I go on a trip. These are some of the websites I consult to gather information about the countries I will be visiting. I tried to include everything I could think of. I especially like to listen to the radio and read the newspaper in English before I go. I am still missing a good website for local events and festivals. I also need more local street map websites. Please, please, please add your favorite websites to the list!

Country Information:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...ook/index.html

Time Zone (including Daylight Savings):
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=102

Future Time Calculator (to confirm daylight savings calculations):
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html

Latitude/Longitude:
http://www.wunderground.com/

Weather:
http://www.weather.com/
http://www.wunderground.com/

Sunrise & sunset:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...omy.html?n=102
http://www.wunderground.com/

Phases of Moon:
http://www.wunderground.com/

Star charts:
http://www.astroviewer.com/interacti...ht-sky-map.php

Airport Information:
http://www.ifly.com/world-airports

Telephone (including Country Codes):
http://www.bellsouth.com/longdistanc...try_codes.html
http://www.countrycodes.com/

Electricity:
http://www.kropla.com/electric2.htm
http://www.international-electrical-...tricguide.html
http://image.magellans.com/mitcus/Im...ical_guide.pdf

Currency Converter:
http://www.oanda.com/converter/travel
http://www.xe.com/ucc/
http://www.foreign-currency.com/currencyguide.htm includes pictures of currency

Country Maps:
http://maps.google.com/

City Maps:
http://maps.google.com/

CDC (including vaccination recommendations):
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/destinationList.aspx
http://www.mdtravelhealth.com/destin...rica/egypt.php

Travelers’ Advisories:
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_p...a_tw_1168.html
http://www.voyage.gc.ca/countries_pays/menu-eng.asp
http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travelling-...ce-by-country/

Quick Translations:
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

List of Embassies:
http://www.embassyworld.com/

Online Newspapers:
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

Online Radio Stations by Country:
http://radiotime.com/region/c_0/Browse_Locations.aspx

Wow, that's quite a list. Oddly, I managed to travel round the world, mostly on the ground, using hardly any of them! Just xe.com, cdc.gov and occasionally babelfish. I'm much more interested in transport sites like bahn.de and seat61.com, and hotel & restaurant info. And good old fashioned guidebooks, of course. I use them for holiday & festival info.

There is another great list of these that has been compiled over the last several years. I am not sure where it is right now, but it is here somewhere!

http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...l-websites.cfm

http://www.fodors.com/community/asia...l-planning.cfm

and, an older article, but still good info:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/trave...tes/index.html

Info about Italy:
http://rome.angloinfo.com/countries/italy/living.asp

School vacations in Germany:
http://www.holidays-info.com/School-...days_2009.html

Snow reports:
http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts...esgadener-Land

Wheelchair travel:
http://www.wheeladventure.com/

Christmas Markets:
http://www.weihnachtsmarkt-deutschla...weihnacht.html

Easter Markets:
http://www.garten-literatur.de/Kalen...flugsziele.htm

Hotel Rooms:
www.hrs.com

Hotel Day Rooms:
http://www.between9and5.com/

Maybe you should try www.tratoz.com it give you a link to the most relevant web sites by locations or travel topics

Enjoy

WOW, I just use Fodor's and Trip Advisor and call it a day! Oh and XE for currency.

oh, and definitely http://www.seatguru.com/ for the best airline seats

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and information

Question
http://tourthai.forumotion.net

CheapOair.com has some great travel articles.

My favorites are

Jet Lag: A common travel issue
http://www.cheapoair.com/travel/trav...ing-jetlag.asp

10 Tips on how to save on airfares
http://www.cheapoair.com/travel/trav...rfare-tips.asp

But the best one is Airline Etiquette - by far! more people need to read this one!
http://www.cheapoair.com/travel/trav...-etiquette.asp

What an impressive list! Thanks!!

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