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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 (*** / ^^^)
  • RedSpottedHanky Strange name - but also good for train tickets (*** / ^^^)
  • 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 (*** / ^^^)

Boats

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 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. (**** / ^^^)
  • Parkat Airport parking can be expensive; this site compares the costs of the options. (*** / ^^^)
  • 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.

Accommodation

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 (*** / ^^^)
 

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