Travel & Holiday Planning Online
Using the Maesbury Broadplace to find your way in life....

• Microsoft Autoroute Express is installed on one of the Broadplace laptops
• RAC Route Planner - 'We'll find you the quickest route from A to B' - covers all of Europe; includes Little Chefs
• The AA Travel Planner - 'Helping you get from A to B and beyond', UK only, includes speed cameras, petrol stations & traffic blackspots

• Airline Network - schedule flights from any UK airport
• BCP airport car parking - all UK airports
• bmibaby.com - budget from Manchester & Birmingham
• EasyJet - includes Liverpool flights
• EBookers.com - start/end anywhere in the world
• RyanAir.com - also from Liverpool

• European Rail - timetables & booking
• TheTrainline - UK, Eurostar, International & InterRail

• P&O Ferries - Dover-Calais; Hull-Rotterdam; Hull-Zeebrugge; Portsmouth-Bilbao
• StenaLine - various routes to Ireland & Holland

• National Express - coaches all over UK & Europe

Everything

• TransportDirect.co.uk - all forms of transport in the UK, compare buses, trains, driving etc

Hotels

• Holiday Inn - book online for anywhere in the world
• Premier Travel Inn - the purple one, UK only

Self Catering

• Country Holidays - UK cottages
• OwnersDirect.co.uk - Worldwide Holiday Villas and Apartments - self catering holiday homes, cottages, farmhouses, chalets and guesthouses.

Package Holidays

• Expedia.co.uk - see 'Get Holiday Ideas', bottom right

Specialist Holidays & Local activities at your destination - type anything into the Google search box below, everything is out there....

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Online Maps

• MultiMap.com - detailed searchable world maps
• Streetmap.co.uk - printable maps of UK streets, find by street name, town, post code, etc
• - and see Google Earth which is installed on all Maesbury Broadplace laptops

Travel Books & Maps

buy books/maps from this link and the Maesbury Broadplace gets commission

Currency Conversion

• Oanda.com Currency Converter - converts any currency to any other currency at today's rates
• Nationwide Travel Money - buy foreign currency & travellers cheques online

Coping with languages

• Babel Fish Translation - paste in text and it translates from any language to any other language, also converts foreign language websites into English.

World Info:

• CIA World Factbook