Make Your Travel Plans
On this page you will find travel resources - from booking your trip, to reading about your destination, to dressing for it - that will meet every budget. You can use these travel suggestions and links not only for planning your travels before you go, but during your travels too.
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Book Your Trip
Find tickets for air and train travel, places to stay, car rentals and cruises:
 Travelocity is a 'one-stop shop' for customers looking to purchase travel.
 CheapTickets uses innovative technology to enable leisure and business travelers to research, plan and book a broad range of travel products. JetBlue is now for sale on CheapTickets!
 Hotwire offers unbeatable low prices on airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, vacation packages and cruises.
 British Airways Holidays offers a selection of hand-picked hotel, car hire, transfers and sightseeing deals in over 350 destinations worldwide.
 RailEurope, for more than 60 years, has been showing North Americans what Europeans have known all along: the best way to travel in europe is on the trains! They also sell country and regional passes, sleeper cars, scenic trains, tours and add-ons, the list goes on and on...
HotelS & Places To Stay
Places to stay from low to high end hotels as well as hostels:
 Hotels.com offers more than 40,000 properties worldwide in over 400 destinations - from hotels and B&B's to condos and all inclusive resorts. Hotels.com also specializes in providing travelers with accommodations during sold-out periods.
HotelsCombined.com compare hotel prices and save!
 Westin Hotels & Resorts® Every Westin - and there are more than 120, including 30 of the world's finest resorts - is a haven of serenity and a distinctive alternative for those who appreciate a higher standard.
Accorhotels the hotel business and leisure portal, offers you almost 4,000 hotels in 90 countries from budget to luxury - All Seasons, Ibis, Suitehotel, Mercure, Novotel, Pullman, Sofitel!
 Hostelworld.com offers reservations for hostels and budget travel worldwide.
HomeExchange.com with this service, you can make yourself at home anywhere in the world, live like a local and stay for FREE. They've got over 20,000 worldwide listings! 
CouchSurfing.com is a great idea for the adventurous traveler. There doesn't seem to be an age limit, although a majority of this site's users are in their 20s and early 30s. Find a couch wherever you go - offer your couch to return the favor!
Travel Information
Stuff you need to know:
Currency Exchange Rates
Transportation Security Administration | TSA
CIA World Factbook
SeatGuru.com says that not all airline seats are the same. They will give you the skinny on your seat, or help you choose one to make your flight more comfortable.
Airlines
Buy air tickets directly from your favorite airline:
Air France is a world-renowned name and an award winning airline with 13 US gateways that each have non-stop flights to Paris, plus an extraordinary connections network via Air France's Paris hub.
Alaska Airlines
 Austrian Airlines
 Condor offers a broad range of worldwide flight connections at very attractive rates. With budget travel on the rise everywhere, Condor is your no frills partner airline.
 Delta Air Lines "Our growing list of over 400 cities means that now, we can take you to more of the best places on earth. Want to go somewhere new and different? We have so many amazing destinations for you to choose from."
 KLM
 Taca Airlines offers more direct flights between North and Central America than any other airline, highly competitive fares, all-new fleet of sophisticated Airbus 319 and 320 aircraft
and 88% on-time flights
 WestJet is Canada's leading low-fare high-value airline offering scheduled service throughout its 45-city North American and Caribbean network. Named Canada's most admired corporate culture in 2005, 2006 and 2007 WestJet pioneered low-cost high-value flying in Canada.
United | USAir | American | Mexicana
Tours
Viator is the leading online provider of destination travel products: sightseeing tours, theater tickets, attraction passes, theme parks, even zero gravity flights ... all of the things you do when you get to where you want to be! Customers can earn 1 frequent flyer mile for every $1 spend on Viator with American, Delta and United mileage programs.
Weekend in Firenze  book here your tickets for most important museums in Florence and Rome!
Paris Trip offers days tours from Paris  and is the minibus tour specialist in Paris, runs its own fleet of vehicles and welcomes tens of thousand of visitors every year at the doorstep of their hotel in Paris. Hard to reach areas, like Giverny and the Champagne region, are easily reachable with ParisTrip.
Walki-Talki Walking Tours
Passports & Visas
 Rush My Passport has helped thousands of U.S. citizens get their passports within 24 hours.
RushMyTravelVisa.com has helped thousands of travelers get their travel visas within 24 hours. Their process is simple, secure and affordable.
Travel Etiquette
Don't forget to take your calling card! Make it easy for your newly met travel and art friends to find you when they get home! At moo.com UK  and moo.com US
 you can put a wide variety of your artwork samples on one side and your contact information on the other of their very nice selection of cards that can be used as both business cards and personal calling cards. They also have postcards and stickers.
At Vistaprint.com you can save up to 90% + get FREE Shipping  and they have many more products besides business and calling cards!
Communication
Skype  is a piece of software that people can download to call other skype users on over the internet for free and make and cheap calls to land line phones and mobiles worldwide. It can also be used for instant messaging and having a skype phone number comes with voicemail. I use skype exclusively at artist-at-large.com!
Art Materials
 Shutterfly makes it fun and easy to be thoughtful and creative with your memories. Their single-minded focus on helping you enhance, organize and store your digital photography allows them to provide the highest quality products for you, our customer.
Since 1911, artists have turned to  Blick Art Materials for dependable savings, a huge selection, and fine customer service on art supplies.
Moleskine (mole-skee-nay) journals were made famous by the artists and writers who carried them on their travels, particularly Van Gogh and Hemmingway. For many years the journals were made with thin writing paper and were considered best for note taking, not necessarily novel writing or drawing, but now there are many different varieties and you can get Moleskine writing journals or sketchbooks with writing, drawing or watercolor paper in them.
Car Rental
Rent a car for part or all of your trip
AutoEurope where you can rent or lease a car for your travels in Europe!
Avis.com  is one of the most recognized and respected car rental companies in the world. Founded in 1946, Avis has been one of the world's top brands for customer loyalty, providing business and leisure customers with a wide range of services worldwide.
 easyCar has access to more than 400,000 cars from over 2,400 conveniently situated locations at popular visitor destinations, easyCar is one of the leading car rental brokers.
 Enterprise Rent-A-Car is the largest car rental company in North America with over 6,900 locations worldwide. The site allows visitors to reserve a car in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Ireland, and the U.K. This includes over 200 airport locations as well as the branch in your hometown.
 Thrifty Car Rental is one of the most widely recognized brands in the travel industry which caters to cost-conscious business and leisure travelers.
Founded in 1958, Budget-Rent-A-Car is one of the leading, most trusted providers of affordable and reliable car rental for the value-minded consumer.
Luggage & Bags
You just might find luggage or a new carryon at eBags.com. They've got up to 60% off on luggage, handbags, backpacks and more - along with free shipping. 
There is also Luggage Online for all your travel needs. They have a huge selection of wheeled and carryon luggage, backpacks, duffels and travel accessories.
At Tumi Flow  you can purchase beautiful luggage and gift cards. Tumi carries higher end accessories  like beautiful wallets and belts for men and women. Perfect gifts for the sophisticated traveler.
You can get free shipping on all orders over $100, on luggage and travelgoods on WorldTraveler.com! 
Maps & Guidebooks
At Maps.com you can find topos and road maps, travel maps and wall maps, globes and games. Any of these make perfect gifts for the world traveler, or the kid who wants to travel the world. 10% OFF all orders!
 Lonely Planet began in the early 1970s after founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler completed an overland journey from London through Asia and on to Australia. Since then it has grown to be the world's leading travel guide publisher. Lonely Planet publish over 600 titles in English and cover every corner of the planet. The guidebooks are also published in a number of languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Korean and Japanese.
Check out our amazon partnered stores for guidebooks to a particular region. We love DK Eyewitness guides, especially for destinations in Europe. Links are in the sidebar to the right ->
Clothing
Keen , Merrell , & Ecco Shoes are some of the best travel shoes made. (I get complements on my Keen sneakers almost daily!)
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