Links - useful websites when travelling abroad
The idea of British holiday makers chosing to travel abroad is nothing new and certainly can't be credited to the internet.
A significant change which has come about due to the interent however is the way that Brits book their foreign holidays. More and more people plan and book thier holidays online due to a combination of choice, convenience and cost savings. A significant number of the people who book their holidays online do so by booking the transport and accomodation seperately, although many still book their holidays as package deals.
holiday brochure services
- Brochure Bank Brochurebank aims to help you plan your holiday by bringing the "best of the high street" to your computer. It offers a wide selection of holiday brochures which can be delivered in either printed format to your house of electronic format to yor email inbox.
- Travelogue Travelogues is a holiday and travel brochure request site and can be searched by either holiday type or destination. After signing up to become a member, the website allows hundreds of brochures to be requested covering thousands of destinations.
airport car paking, VIP lounges, airport hotels, etc
- Holiday Extras Holiday Extras aims to be a one-stop online shop for all the things which make the start and finish of a holiday abroad go smoothly. Services include airport parking, airport hotels, airport lounges and also London theatre breaks and UK theme park breaks.
- Lounge Pass
Holiday in style and enjoy the experience of VIP travel by booking into an airport lounge in advance with Lounge Pass. Lounge Pass offers access to over 100 airport VIP lounges worldwide, including 17 at UK airports.
- Park and Go Park and Go Services offer online advance booking for use of car parks at many of the airports across the UK. Their website also offers advance booking of airport hotels, airport lounges, travel insurance and meet and greet services.
- purpleparking purpleparking has been established for a number of years and offers both park and ride and meet and greet car parking services at many of the UK's airports.
- Priority Pass Priority Pass membership provides airport lounge access irrespective of the class of travel or choice of airline. Once a yearly membership fee has been paid there is no need to book in advance to access airport lounges and their VIP treatment.
misc travel related services and products
- 0044 double zero double four www.0044.co.uk claims to be the first and only website in the UK to specialise in mobile phone roaming solutions and say that their range of international prepaid sim cards allows travellers to avoid roaming charges and save up to 80%.
- essentials4travel.com essentials4travel.com aims to offer an online one-stop-shop service for purchasing products in preperation for travel ranging from luggage, travel accesories and maps to gadgets.
- Holiday Watchdog.com Holiday Watchdog is a holiday and hotel review site conatining the independent opinions, reviews, pictures and videos from past holidaymakers for prospective holidaymakers.
- Linguaphone Linguaphone is the market leader in self-study and assisted-study language courses, offering 100 print, CD, CD-ROM and cassette languages courses. With a massive following worldwide, Linguaphone is recognised for its proven Listen-Understand-Speak tuition method.
- Maps International Maps International has a large range of travel maps and guides for holiday makers covering many destinations within the UK and abroad. Maps International also offers a variety of other map related products in electronic and printed formats.
- MyDestination.co.uk MyDestination.co.uk is a website run by Maps International which enables you to search for you your holday destination by name and then purchase guide books, maps translation books and products relevent to the location.
- TravelPlan TravelPlan is a range of travel planning software for use on Windows based PCs or laptops, and PalmOS or Pocket PC PDAs. The software can be used with or without an internet connection, to plan and co-ordinate flights, car rental and hotel stays. When used online it is also able make bookings directly.
- trunki trunki produce brightly coloured hardwearing suitcases designed specifically for children with several useful and well thought out features.
- SIM4travel SIM4travel offer a SIM card that can be used in over 120 countries with one single number. It also enables you to receive calls for free in over 80 countries around the world and still only pay low call costs for making loacl and international calls.
airlines travelling to and from the UK
- AirFrance AirFrance's network of flight routes cover all corners of the world and include several of the UK's airports.
- British Airways British Airways fly from many the Uk's airports and have destinations spread across all corners of the globe.
- CentralWings Centralwings is a low cost Polish airline and flies to and from several UK destinations.
- Condor Condor is a German based airline whcih flies in and out of a small number of UK airports, but has routes covering much of Europe and the rest of the world.
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines KLM Royal Dutch Airlines fly between several of the UK's airports and a wide selction of destinations around Europe and the rest of the world.
- Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines operates a number of routes from the UK to Australia and New Zealand in addition to their network of flights to and within South East Asia.
- Sterling Sterling is a low-cost airline with direct routes between Europe (including the UK) and the Nordic countries.
- Virgin Atlantic Virgin Atlantic's expanding network includes destinations in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Australia, with flights taking off and landing at several UK airports.
flybe Flybe is offers low cost tickets between many of the UK's airports in addition to numerous routes between the UK and the rest of Europe.
flight only specialist booking services
- Avro Avro is a charter flight only airplane ticket retailer which enables it to offer similar prices to budget airlines.
- Freedom Flights Freedom Flights only sells airplane tickets, the majoirty of which are on planes flown by Excel Airways.
airport transfer services (outside of the UK)
- A2Btransfers A2Btransfers provides customers with a comprehensive range of transfer services (including airport transfers, harbour transfers and resort transfers) via taxi, minibus, coach and shuttle services.
- Holiday Taxis.com Holiday Taxis.com offer a broad range of transfer options to suit every type of customer, including private taxi transfers, minibuses, low cost shuttle transfers and limousines.
- resorthoppa.com resorthoppa.com provide private transfer (in the form of taxi, minibus or coach), or scheduled shared shuttle options with it's airport transfer services. There are also a wide variety of ski holiday specific transfer options available - some of which have the added option of a helicopter transfer.
- ShuttleDirect ShuttleDirect bookings offer you a choice between private or (shared) shuttle airport transfers and although several types are vehicle are used these details are decided by ShuttleDirect.
- transferstore.com Transferstore.com offers taxi, minibus, coach, and limousine transfers between airports and accommodation at low rates through an easy to use interactive website.
international rail tickets
- Eurostar Eurostar is the high-speed train service using the Channel Tunnel to link London and Ashford in the UK with Paris, Brussels, Lille, Avignon, Calais, Disneyland Resort Paris and the French Alps.
- International Rail International Rail specialises in the sale and distribution of rail tickets and passes for travel throughout Europe, Australia, Asia and The Americas.
- RailEurope Rail Europe is the UK subsidiary of SNCF French Railways. Rail Europe's online booking service offers tickets to over 200 destinations with Eurostar, TGV & SNCF and is also the official UK website selling the Inter-Rail pass.