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Trains
  • National Rail Provides the timetable (including connecting details) for every possible rail journey in the UK (**** / ^^^^)
  • TheTrainLine Gives the times and you can buy the tickets (*** / ^^^)
  • MyTrainTicket New site - similar to TheTrainLine but with some useful additional options (*** / ^^^)
  • BestValueFares Claims to find the cheapest fares (*** / ^^^)
  • Eurostar Times and fares for Paris and Brussels (*** / ^^^)
  • Seat61 a site setup by a railway enthisiast - lots of good advice on getting to (just about) anywhere by train from London (**** / ^^^^)
  • RailServe Covers International timetables (*** / ^^^)
  • RENFE Spanish railways (*** / ^^^)
  • DeutcheBahn German railways (*** / ^^^)
  • Spanish Rail (UK) Agent for RENFE (*** / ^^^)
  • SNCF French railways (*** / ^^^)
  • RailEurope You can get a rail pass covering 28 countries here (*** / ^^^)
  • Virgin trains (*** / ^^^)
  • EastCoast trains (*** / ^^^)
  • British Rail International Details of how you can travel round Europe by rails (*** / ^^^)

 

 

 Planes
  • EasyJet Great for Luton flights (**** / ^^^^)
  • Ryanair Ireland's cut-price airline (*** / ^^^^)
  • SkyDeals The Thomson/TUI/Britannia site - not everything seems to work ... (*** / ^^)
  • British Airways
  • Seat Guru The guide to airline seating (**** / ^^^^)
  • FlyBE British European - another cut-price airline, mainly from Southampton but includes Jersey from Luton (*** / ^^^^)
  • Monarch Airlines Was charter only, now you can book direct (*** / ^^^^)
  • Iberia (*** / ^^^)
  • Thomson You can book direct - used to be Britannia (*** / ^^^)
  • Virgin Airlines Fly with Richard Branson (*** / ^^^)
  • British Midland Airways Book your ticket with BMA (*** / ^^^)
  • FirstChoiceAirways Charter flights. (*** / ^^^)
  • AirlineDestinations Shows airline routes(*** / ^^^)
  • JumbleFly Similar to the above. (*** / ^^^)
  • AlternativeAirlines (*** / ^^^)
  • CharterFlightCentre (*** / ^^^)
  • AirlineQuality This site gives a guide to airline seat pitches and the best places to sit on varoius airlines/aircraft; also look at BA, Thomson, First Choice and Excel for seat pitch related upgrades. (**** / ^^^)
  • TravelSuperMarket Like the following two, searches through many other sites - this is thought to be the most effective. Now does hotels as well. (**** / ^^)
  • Travel Jungle Flights, hotels and cars. Scroll down for non-sponsored sites. (*** / ^^^)
  • Kayak Multi-search site (** / ^^^^)
  • SideStep  Multi-search site (** / ^^^^)
  • SkyScanner Huge site and a bit slow; not so good as the previous two but worth trying (** / ^^^^)
  • BMIbaby Low cost flights from Cardiff, East Midlands and Manchester (*** / ^^^)
  • Norwegian More cheap flights from Stansted e.g. to Oslo (*** / ^^^)
  • Air Berlin More cheap flights from Stansted, to destinations in Germany (*** / ^^^)
  • GermanWings More cheap flights from Stansted e.g. to Cologne (*** / ^^^)
  • IcelandExpress More cheap flights from Stansted e.g. to Reykavik (*** / ^^^)
  • Landings Every airline you can think of is here !
  • Swiss Replaced Swissair (**** / ^^^^)
  • BAA - British Airports Authority all about most UK airports, flight details (inc. real time arrivals) and parking (**** / ^^^^)
  • FlightRadar24 Track planes in real-time
  • RadarVirtuel Similar to FlightRadar24 - provides more information but seems to be a few minutes more behind.

 

Travel Agents
  • Travelocity Electronic travel agent with cheap deals (***** / ^^^^)
  • Expedia Cheap deals but limited range of destinations (***** /^^^^)
  • Isango Great for excursions when you know where you're going. (***** / ^^^^)
  • Surf2Travel (UK).Effective portal to search for travel comapnies etc. (*** / ^^^)
  • Cheap Flights (UK).The UK's biggest comparison website - for most destinations (*** / ^^^)
  • Yapta Tracks airfares and notifies you of changes
  • NetFlights Another search/comparison website
  • Kelkoo (UK) Flights, hotels and cars - but results are manipulated to favour paying clients.
  • Thomas Cook includes extensive guide to world wide travel but poor availability (*** / ^^^^)
  • Thomson part of theTUI group - search through all their brochures and book online (****/ ^^^^)
  • Airtours (****/ ^^^^)
  • Cosmos (*** / ^^^)
  • Soveriegn Part of RUI (*** / ^^^)
  • LunnPoly Good range but can be pricey - also part of TUI (*** / ^^^)
  • HolidayTruth More advice (*** / ^^^)
  • HolidaysUncovered More advice (*** / ^^^)
  • EBookers Good for a specific budget but search options can be confusing (*** / ^^^)
  • FirstChoice Links to Sunstart and Unijet - but range is limited (*** / ^^^)
  • MagicOfSpain Leads to other countries covered by the Magic group (*** / ^^^)
  • Saga For the grey-haired amongst us .. (*** / ^^^)
  • Touchdown Good selection of discounted holidays - but only if you work for a travel-related company (*** / ^^^)
  • Travelbag Including holidays for the more adventurous (*** / ^^^)
  • Last Minute Good for those late bookings (*** / ^^^)
  • Opodo Good availability but poor information (*** / ^^^)
  • LeisureDirection Short-breaks in the UK and abroad (*** / ^^^)
  • Cresta Short-break specialist (*** / ^^^)
  • Travelscene Another short-break specialist (*** / ^^^)
  • TravelRebublic (*** / ^^^)
  • Page&Moy Specialist travel agent(*** / ^^^)
  • TeletextHolidays Forget the old clunky TV text service; cheap deals but low on information (*** / ^^^)
  • WebWeekends Something for the weekend (*** / ^^^)
  • RealHols Another short-break specialist (*** / ^^^)
  • EscapePackages Good for Greece and elsewhere (*** / ^^^)
  • Eurotrip Good if your budget is tight and you want to backpack (*** / ^^^)
  • OnLineTravel (*** / ^^^)
  • LateDeals (*** / ^^^)
  • Bargain Holidays Check out the late deals (*** / ^^^)
  • Sabre For flights, hotels and cars (*** / ^^^)
  • Kuoni (*** / ^^^)
  • AITO Association of independent tour operators - lots of links to specialist agencies (*** / ^^^)
  • DeckChair (*** / ^^^)
  • Kayak (*** / ^^^)
  • A to B Travel (UK) (*** / ^^^)
  • Just Direct online from Thomson Holidays (**** / ^^^^)
  • GreekSun (*** / ^^^)
  • SimplyTravel For 'hand-picked travel/properties - off the beaten track' . Includes Mallorcan villas. (*** / ^^^)
  • IndividualTravellers for villa, cottage and farmhouse holidays (*** / ^^^)
  • AbroadHolidays (*** / ^^)
  • VillaPolis (*** / ^^^)
  • Brochure Bank order holiday brochures from over 100 travel operators (*** / ^^^)
  • Brochure Point more holiday brochures (*** / ^^^)
  • BiteSizeBritain U.K. holiday brochures (*** / ^^^)
  • RealHoliday the site for the Campaign for Real Travel Agents (*** / ^^^)
 

Rentals

Holiday Rentals For villas

Ownersdirect Similar to the above, perhaps with more villas

EnglishCountryCottages as the name says .....

Cottages-4-You UK cottages to rent

ClassicCottages UK cottages - mainly in the West Country

TripHomes For villas
HomeHolidays For villas
VBRO For villas
VillaRenters For villas
HomeAway For villas
MyHoliday For villas
HolidayLettings For villas
PerfectPlaces For villas
SelfCateringBreaks For villas

 

Kenyon Strickland Associates Specialist in villas in north-west Mallorca

Mallorca Rural Another specialist in Malorcan villas - in rral areas

Meon Villas More villas from the market leader

James Villas For villas

VillaClick More villas

LastVilla More villas

 

(lu - 03/08/10 : lc - 12/05/10)