Travel Guides
Fodor's
Explore Fodor's rankings of hotels and restaurants from around the world and create a customized destination guide. Fodor's also offers feature articles and travel forums.
Lonely
Planet
Resource guide for the independent traveler to popular and exotic destinations worldwide. Includes destination overviews, maps, photos, traveler's reports and bulletin boards.
Rough
Guides
Rough Guides is an online guidebook to over 14,000 destinations. Contents include information
on what to see, where to stay and eat, and other basic travel information.
Reservations
Expedia
At this full service travel site, you can make air, hotel and car reservations. It also
includes information on vacation packages and cruises.
Travelocity
One stop travel site for the best deals on airplane tickets, car rentals, hotel and cruise reservations.
Priceline
Name
your own price in booking airline tickets, rental cars and hotel rooms.
Maps/Directions
Mapquest
Mapquest
provides street maps of the United States and the world, topographic maps,
driving directions, and up to date traffic reports. This site also offers other
travel services such as hotel, restaurant, and city information.
Rand
McNally: The Travel Site
While providing the usual street maps and driving directions, this site's unique "Road Trip"
feature helps you choose a vacation spot, find the best way to drive there, and discover
interesting things to do and see along the way.
Maps
On Us
This is a simple site that provides maps, driving directions and an online telephone book
in
which you can search for a business or individual and then get directions
to their address.
Accommodations
Bed
and Breakfast
Find
and reserve a room in a bed and breakfast in the United States or abroad.
Hotel
Discounts
Find
and book discounted hotel rooms in the United States and abroad.
Airlines
Alphabetical
List of Airlines
web.princeton.edu/sites/citdocs/misc/air800.html
Alphabetical
list of airlines worldwide including links to their website and toll-free
number.
International
U.S.
State Department Travel and Consular Information Sheets
At
this site, the Center for Disease Control provides health information on foreign
countries such as suggested vaccinations and outbreak information. Also, the
State Department provides information sheets on all foreign countries and travel
warnings.
Tourism
Offices/Convention & Visitors Bureaus
Wisconsin
Department of Tourism
This
site provides information on activities and attractions, lodging and a calendar
of events for Wisconsin. Through
this site, links are available to Convention and Visitors Bureaus throughout
Wisconsin.
Tourism
Offices Worldwide Directory
This is a guide to official tourist information sources including government tourism
offices, convention and visitor's bureaus and chambers of commerce throughout
the world.
Convention
Bureaus
Directory of official convention bureaus and national tourist office web sites around the globe.
Parks
National
Park Service
This site provides information on visiting the parks in the National Park System as well as
background information on the lands and campsite reservation information.
Wisconsin
State Parks & Recreation
www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/parks
This
site provides a directory of state parklands, trail information, a calendar of
events and online booking of campsites.
Public
Transportation
Milwaukee
Country Transit System
Find bus routes, schedules, information on the U-PASS, vanpool, festival rides, and Park 'N' Rides.
Amtrak
http://www.amtrak.com/index3.html
At this site you can find schedule information, locate and station and purchase tickets.
In
addition,
this web site
provides information on rail sales and the guest rewards program.
Greyhound
See a list of station locations, schedule information and purchase tickets for local and
national travel.
Traffic Reports
Wisconsin
Department of Transportation
Get
real-time reports on traffic delays, lane closures, and road conditions in the
Milwaukee area.