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Useful Travel Links |
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| Arts and Entertainment | Get Online While Abroad | Money and Currency Information | |||||||
| Destination Guide | Government Sites | Rail, Ferry and Subway Systems | |||||||
| Disability Information | Health and First Aid for Travelers | Special Interests | |||||||
| Food and Wine Guides | Local Washington DC Sites | Travel Books and Guides | |||||||
| Foreign Languages | Maps and Driving Tips | U.S. State Dept Requirements and Warnings | |||||||
| Weather | |||||||||
| Arts and Entertainment | |||||||||
| Playbill Online | |||||||||
| A great resource for theater information. Find out what’s showing and where. You can purchase | |||||||||
| tickets online. | |||||||||
| Destination Guide | |||||||||
| Bed & Breakfast Guide | |||||||||
| A search tool for B&B’s worldwide | |||||||||
| Bermuda | |||||||||
| Bermuda Board of Tourism Website | |||||||||
| Disability Information | |||||||||
| UCP | |||||||||
| In their travel section, UCP offers travel tips and suggestions for those traveling with disabilities. | |||||||||
| Half The Planet | |||||||||
| An Internet portal where the disability community can access travel related services and | |||||||||
| products and keep up with disability-related news and information. | |||||||||
| Food and Wine Guides | |||||||||
| The Zagat Restaurant Guide | |||||||||
| Search for the right spot by location, cuisine, cost, Zagat rating and other special features. | |||||||||
| Zachys Wine Connoisseurs | |||||||||
| Provides wine shopping Online | |||||||||
| Epicurious | |||||||||
| As into food as you are. | |||||||||
| Foreign Languages | |||||||||
| Berlitz Online Translation | |||||||||
| A person-to-person translation service offering exceptional quality at a competitive price. | |||||||||
| Great for online business meetings. | |||||||||
| Foreign Languages for Travelers | |||||||||
| Translating dictionaries between many languages; learn a language, including .wav files | |||||||||
| for pronunciation; word of the day e-mail service; international traffic signs and road rules; | |||||||||
| International Holiday calendars; maps and much more. | |||||||||
| Universal Language Translator | |||||||||
| If you want to view a web page that is in French, Spanish, English, Portuguese, or | |||||||||
| German, simply type the address in this translator. Even the links will translate for | |||||||||
| continued ease of browsing! | |||||||||
| Government Sites | |||||||||
| FAA | |||||||||
| National Park Service | |||||||||
| State Department | |||||||||
| U.S. Customs | |||||||||
| Health and First Aid for Travelers | |||||||||
| Information from the CDC (Center for Disease Control) | |||||||||
| A complete guide on health information for the traveler. | |||||||||
| Dealing with High Altitudes | |||||||||
| An outdoor action guide to High Altitude: Acclimatization and Illness | |||||||||
| Worldwide Labs | |||||||||
| A source for Melatonin and Jet Lag | |||||||||
| Local Washington DC Sites | |||||||||
| White House | |||||||||
| Kennedy Center for the Arts | |||||||||
| Smithsonian | |||||||||
| Holocaust Memorial Museum | |||||||||
| National Archives | |||||||||
| FBI | |||||||||
| Library of Congress | |||||||||
| National Building Museum | |||||||||
| Corcoran Gallery | |||||||||
| Maps and Driving Tips | |||||||||
| MapQuest | |||||||||
| Maps, door-to-door directions, real-time traffic as well as yellow and white pages are available. | |||||||||
| Roadside America | |||||||||
| Your online guide to offbeat tourist attractions | |||||||||
| Money and Currency Information | |||||||||
| Currency Converter | |||||||||
| The Universal Currency Converter, the world’s most popular currency tool, | |||||||||
| allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate calculations on the Internet, | |||||||||
| using live, up-to-the-minute currency rates. | |||||||||
| Rail, Ferry, and Subway systems | |||||||||
| Amtrak | |||||||||
| Ferry companies of the Web | |||||||||
| The most complete list of links to Ferry companies on the Web. | |||||||||
| Rail Europe | |||||||||
| The official Eurail site, featuring Eurail/Eurorail, BritRail and Eurostar. | |||||||||
| Worldwide Subway & Transit Information | |||||||||
| A good collection of links to city and area transit guides, subway, maps | |||||||||
| and other information. | |||||||||
| Special Interests | |||||||||
| U.S. States and Capitals | |||||||||
| Full of information and facts about the 50 U.S. States and Capitals. | |||||||||
| USPS Zip+4 lookup page | |||||||||
| Get the correct Zip+4 codes for all your contacts here. | |||||||||
| Worldtime | |||||||||
| One of the easiest of the international time conversion sites around, | |||||||||
| ideal in case you need to know the time in Zimbabwe. | |||||||||
| Travel Books and Guides | |||||||||
| Amazon.com | |||||||||
| Travel Library | |||||||||
| Personal travelogues, trip reports and worldwide tourist information. | |||||||||
| Travel Publications | |||||||||
| A U.S. Government publication list | |||||||||
| U.S. State Dept Requirements and Warnings | |||||||||
| Foreign Entry Requirements | |||||||||
| A complete listing of foreign country entry requirements for U.S. citizens | |||||||||
| traveling on tourism/business provided by the U.S. Department of State Bureau | |||||||||
| of Consular Affairs. | |||||||||
| Passport Services and Information | |||||||||
| The U.S. State Departments guide to Passport Services. | |||||||||
| Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets | |||||||||
| A complete listing of foreign countries where avoidance of travel is recommended by the | |||||||||
| U.S. State Department. | |||||||||
| Weather | |||||||||
| National Weather Service | |||||||||
| This U.S. Government source not only provides all weather information, | |||||||||
| but also links to Regional Support Centers throughout the country. | |||||||||
| The Weather Channel | |||||||||
| Find up-to-the-minute, interactive reports, five-day forecasts, educational information and | |||||||||
| specialized reports for pilots, skiers and travelers. Plus health and safety tips, | |||||||||
| weather-oriented news, almanac-style Arcanum and television program schedules. | |||||||||
| The Weather Underground, Inc. | |||||||||
| Provides daily weather conditions going back 6 years in most cities, plus general | |||||||||
| min/max temperatures, precipitation, humidity and wind information for free! | |||||||||