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When you begin planning a vacation, one of the most important steps is to book a hotel room for your stay. After you have made your arrangements to take off work and get to your destination, you will have to figure out an affordable place to stay. There are many ways to approach hotel booking, the most tried and true being purchasing a vacation package through a travel agent. However, travel agents are becoming more expensive and less practical as Internet travel booking becomes the norm.

Rather than paying a middleman to book your flights and hotels, online travel websites make it easy to compare rates, research locations and check on availability. [Read more]

We’ve tried to create a page with loads of useful travel tools and widgets to help you plan your next holiday as much as possible. The tools include:

• Weather – find out the weather at your next destinatio
• Hotel price comparison search – get the best price on the hotel
• Directions – get directions if you are driving there
• Distance – how far away it is
• Flight tracker – the status of the flights and airports
• Google Earth – see your holiday destination in 3D!
• World time – what time is it where you are going?
• Currency – how much is the local currency?
• Warm climate hunter – when is the right time to go?

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