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Table of Contents: (links to sections of this page, below) TRAVEL - GENERAL PLANNING web sites (Expedia, Kayak, Priceline, Travelocity, etc.) TRAVEL - '800' Phone Numbers (for accomodations, transportation) Accomodations : TRAVEL- LODGING info-reservation web sites (farflung ; nationwide or worldwide) Transportation : TRAVEL - AIR FLIGHT info-reservation web sites (farflung ; nationwide or worldwide) TRAVEL - CAR RENTAL info-reservation web sites (farflung ; nationwide or worldwide) TRAVEL - TRAIN info-reservation web sites (farflung ; nationwide or worldwide) TRAVEL - OCEAN CRUISE info-reservation web sites (farflung ; worldwide) TRAVEL - RIVER CRUISE info-reservation web sites (farflung ; worldwide) TRAVEL - SPACE FLIGHT info-reservation web sites (universe-wide) Attractions : TRAVEL - WINERY sites, esp. Virginia Some SEARCH engines (on a separate web page) by which to do various travel inquiries Note: You can use an option like 'Find in This Page ...' of your web browser to find keywords on this page, such as 'hotel'   OR   'car'   OR   'train' End of Table of Contents. Start of General Travel Links.

GENERAL TRAVEL PLANNING sites (flights, hotels, cars) < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of Page, above. > Cheap Tickets - at www.cheaptickets.com (flight, hotel, car, etc.) Expedia - at www.expedia.com (flight, hotel, car, etc.) Hot Wire - at www.hotwire.com (flight, hotel, car, etc.) Kayak - at www.kayak.com (flight, hotel, car, etc.) Orbitz - at www.orbitz.com (flight, hotel, car, etc.) Priceline - at www.priceline.com (flight, hotel, car, etc.) Travelocity - at www.travelocity.com (flight, hotel, car, etc.) WEB SEARCH on keywords 'travel reservation' Go to Table of Contents, above.

800 NUMBERS for accomodations, transportation < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of Page, above. > Hotel chains --- toll-free 800 phone numbers Best Western, 1-800-528-1234 Comments: includes the Cavalier Inn in C'ville, VA Choice Hotels, 1-800-4CHOICE = 800-424-6423 Comfort Inns, 1-800-835-7629 or 800-368-2477 Comments: one at 1807 Emmet in C'ville, VA Courtyard Marriott, 1-800-321-2211 Comments: one at 1201 W. Main in C'ville, VA Hampton Inns, 1-800-HAMPTON = 800-426-7866 Comments: Hilton Honors membership applies; one at 900 W. Main and one at 2035 India Rd (just off Hwy 29) in C'ville Hilton Inns, 1-800-HILTONS = 800-445-8667 Comments: Hilton Honors membership applies Holiday Inn, 1-800-HOLIDAY = 800-465-4329 Comments: one at 1901 Emmet (Hwy 29) in C'ville,VA Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, 1-800-233-1234 Omni Hotels, 1-800-THE-OMNI = 800-843-6664 Radisson Hotels & Resorts 1-800-333-3333 Red Roof Inn, 1-800-RED-ROOF = 800-733-7663 Comments: one at 1309 W. Main in C'ville, VA Airlines: Air Canada, 1-800-776-3000 Air Europa, 1-888-238-7672 Air France, 1-800-237-2747 AirTran, 1-800-247-8726 Alitalia, 1-800-223-5730 All Nippon Airways, 1-800-235-9262 American, 1-800-433-7300 America West Airlines, 1-800-235-9292 British Airways, 1-800-247-9297 Continental Airlines, 1-800-525-0280 Delta, 1-800-221-1212 Jet Blue, 1-800- Lufthansa German Airlines, 1-800-645-3880 Mexicana Airlines, 1-800-531-7921 Northwest, 1-800-225-2525 Qantas, 1-800-227-4566 Southwest, 1-800-435-9792 Swissair, 1-800-221-4750 Tap Air Portugal, 1-800-221-7370 TWA, 1-800-221-2000 United, 1-800-241-6522 United Express, 1-800-864-8331 US Air, 1-800-428-4322 Virgin Atlantic Airways, 1-800-862-8621 Car Rental Companies: Avis, 1-800-331-1212 Budget, 1-800-527-0800 Dollar, 1-800-800-4000 Hertz, 1-800-654-3131 National, 1-800-227-7368 Trains: Amtrak, 1-800-872-7245 Go to Table of Contents, above.

LODGING sites (farflung ; nationwide or worldwide) < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of Page, above. > All Hotels - at www.all-hotels.com hotels.com - at www.hotels.com Chains : Choice Hotels - at www.choicehotels.com (Comfort Inns, Quality Inns, etc.) Hilton hotels - at www.hilton.com (Hampton Inns, Double Tree Inns, Hiltons, etc.) Holiday Inn hotels - at www.holiday-inn.com Holiday Inn, Niagara Falls - at www.holidayinn.com Marriott hotels - at www.marriott.com Omni hotels - at www.omnihotels.com Radisson hotels - at www.radisson.com Ritz-Carlton hotels - at www.ritzcarlton.com WEB SEARCH on keywords 'hotel reservation' Go to Table of Contents, above.

AIR FLIGHT sites (farflung ; nationwide or worldwide) < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of Page, above. > Air Tran - at airtran.com American Airlines - at aa.com Delta - at delta.com Jet Blue - at jetblue.com Southwest Air - at southwest.com United Airlines - at united.com US Airways - at usair.com WEB SEARCH on keywords 'airline reservation' Go to Table of Contents, above.

CAR RENTAL sites (farflung ; nationwide or worldwide) < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of Page, above. > Hertz - at hertz.com Avis - at avis.com Budget Rent-a-car - at budgetrentacar.com WEB SEARCH on keywords 'car rental' Go to Table of Contents, above.

TRAIN info-reservation sites (farflung ; nationwide or worldwide) < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of Page, above. > Amtrak - at amtrak.com Eurail passes (official site) - at eurail.com Rail Europe - at raileurope.com Euro Railways - at eurorailways.com Rail Pass - at railpass.com WEB SEARCH on keywords 'train reservation' Go to Table of Contents, above.

OCEAN CRUISE info-reservation links (world-wide) < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of Page, above. > WEB SEARCH on keywords 'ocean cruise reservation' Go to Table of Contents, above.

RIVER CRUISE info-reservation links (world-wide) < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of Page, above. > WEB SEARCH on keywords 'river cruise reservation' Go to Table of Contents, above.

SPACE FLIGHT info-reservation links (universe-wide) < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of Page, above. > Virgin Galactic - at virgingalactic.com (Airline offering suborbital spaceflights with a new version of SpaceShipOne. Provides description of flights, the vehicle and offers bookings starting 2005.) Zero-G - at www.zerogcorp.com (Features information on parabolic flights [Zero-G] available to the public for experiencing weightless conditions.) WEB SEARCH on keywords 'spaceflight reservation' Go to Table of Contents, above.

WINERY sites < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of Page, above. > Virginia wineries: (For wineries near Charlottesville, see "Travel - Charlottesville" on the Home page.) Afton Mountain Vineyards - at aftonmountainvineyards.com (near Afton, VA) Roanoke's Amrhein Cellars - at roanokewine.com (near Roanoke, VA) Burnley Vineyards - at burnleywines.com (Barboursville, VA ; near Charlottesville, VA) Cooper Vineyards - at coopervineyards.com (near Louisa, VA) Chrysalis Vineyards - at chrysaliswine.com (near Middleburg, VA) Veritas Vineyards - at veritaswines.com (near Afton, VA) Villa Appalaccia - at villaappalaccia.com (about 45 min south of Roanoke, off of Blue Ridge Parkway) WEB SEARCH on keywords 'winery virginia' Go to Table of Contents, above.

TRAVEL 'WEB-DIRECTORY' pages < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of Page, above. > It seems that 'web directories' are dying out. Google and Yahoo closed theirs down around 2014. Then around 2017, the directory from which the Google and Yahoo web-directories were spawned --- the DMOZ "Open Directory Project" closed down. It seems that it is just not feasible for a team of people to keep up with all the sites that are going dead and the new sites that appear. About a year after the dmoz.org site closed down, it appears that a new web-directory site --- curlie.org --- arose from the ashes of 'dmoz.org'. It remains to be seen how long that web-directory lasts. Following are a few links related to 'web directory' sites. Wikipedia List of Web Directories - at en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ List_of_web_directories the 'Curlie' web-directory project on TRAVEL - curlie.org/ Recreation/ Travel/ (click on categories such as "Attractions" or "Destinations" or "Lodging" or "Transportation" or "Tour Operators" or "Travel Agents" --- or click on "Regional" --- or try the search engines at the bottom of the page) Rather than depending on any remaining 'web-directory' links, here are some WEB SEARCHES to get you started with 'travel information' inquiries --- using keywords 'travel hotel', and keywords 'travel airline', and keywords 'travel train'. Another approach to take: Go to the Wikipedia 'Category:Types_of_tourism' page and start following links from that page. Go to Table of Contents, above.

Bottom of this General TRAVEL Planning LINKS page. To return to a previously visited web page location, click on the Back button of your web browser, a sufficient number of times. OR, use the History-list option of your web browser. Or ... < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of Page, above. > Or you can scroll up to the top of this page. See other TRAVEL external-LINKS-pages of this site (on the Home page) - for travel to specific locations, such as Charlottesville, VA Hampton Roads, VA New York City Page history: Page was created 2006 Jul 29. Page was changed 2015 May 19. (Removed dead links to the old Google and Yahoo 'web-directories'. Removed other dead links. Added 'WEB SEARCH' links.) Page was changed 2018 Sep 21. (Added css and javascript to try to handle text-size for smartphones, esp. in portrait orientation.) Page was changed 2021 Feb 20. (Specified the width of images in proportion to the width of the browser window. Some minor re-formatting.)