www.tripadvisor.com – Check out that holiday before you book ****

www.solosholidays.co.uk – Great site for the single traveller ****

Ebookers – (www.ebookers.co.uk) Great for long haul travel ***

Streetmap – (www.streetmap.co.uk) Wonderful site for maps and driving routes ***

Multimap – (www.multimap.co.uk) UK & European routes ***

The AA Route Planner (www.theaa.com) and The RAC Route Planner – (www.rac.co.uk/web/routeplanner) Both sites have good route planners ***

Google Maps – (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps) These maps are some of the best on the web. Go to Google Maps and simply enter your town, city, village or post code. The route directions are also very detailed with information about petrol stations, eating places and accomodation available along the route. ****

Momondo – (www.momondo.com/en/) Probably the best source of cheap European flights I have found **

Kayak – (www.kayak.co.uk/flights) Searches 120 sites looking for the best flight deals **

Trip Advisor at www.tripadvisor.com is a mine of information by actual paying customers about thousands of hotels and B&Bs throughout the UK and across the world ****

The Lonely Planet site at http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ offers a lot of good advice from its subscribers. Largely aimed at foreign destinations rather than obscure UK venues ***

Canal Boating in the UK and Europe at http://www.canals.com/ lists over 2000 websites for all standards of boating **

Visit Britain is the official Tourism Agency’s website http://www.visitbritain.co.uk/ **

The Open Directory’s portal to travel guides and directories is a very good jumping off place to research holiday destinations at www.dmoz.org/Recreation/Travel/Guides_and_Directories/ **

Travelocity’s UK site at www.travelocity.co.uk has very good offers on city break holidays ***