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Travel Information

 

Guides & Recommendations, International, Maps & Locators, Specialized Travel, Wisconsin Travel

   
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Motels in Stevens Point  A listing of motels.
In addition, some local motels have on-line reservations available from Rooms Plus, with on-line reservations

Stevens Point Area Convention and Visitors Bureau
Information on lodging and attractions. Includes maps and contact information.

Convention Central, Stevens Point & Plover
"Business and leisure connection made daily in Central Wisconsin".

   
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 Guides & Recommendations
 
 

Biztravel -- http://www.biztravel.com/
Expedia -- http://www.expedia.com/
Travelocity   -- http://www.travelocity.com/
Some travel sites that offers travel reservations, online tracking of frequent flyer miles, city and airport information, electronic travel magazines, and other valuable sites of interest to business travelers. All highly rated for frequent business travelers..

Excite Travel Destinations   -- http://www.excite.com/travel/destinations/
Guide to communities around the world. Provides information on travel, entertainment, and local business, plus government and community services. Formerly known as City.Net.

Fodor's Travel Online -- http://www.fodors.com/
High quality information on travel, including articles on selected destinations and places to stay and dine, cruises, and sports and adventure travel. Offers hotel and restaurant indexes, reviews of more than 2,000 Bed & Breakfasts in the U.S., discussion. 

Frommer's Budget Travel Online   -- http://www.frommers.com/
Features an encyclopedia of the 200 major tourist sites. Also: Discounts - Best Travel Bargains, Off-beat, Alternative Travel, and  Travel for Special People.

Lonely Planet Online -- http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
Excellent online travel guides from one of the best travel publishers.

Restaurant Row -- http://www.restaurantrow.com/
This dining resource has listings for over 110,000 restaurants in 7000 cities in 47 countries. It offers ratings, customer reviews, menus, photos, maps, and driving directions. Dine.com <http://www.dine.com/>is a similar site, with a database of more than 35,000 restaurant reviews, 150,000 restaurants listed. 

Rough Guide : travel info -- http://travel.roughguides.com/
A favorite guidebook publisher's online guides to more than 4,000 destinations around the world.

Universal Packing List for Travelers  -- http://upl.codeq.info/index.jsp
A very handy site for all types of travelers: a packing list that can be edited to suit your needs.

 
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International
   
 

Getting Through Customs  -- http://www.getcustoms.com/omnibus.html
A guide to cultural differences designed for the business traveler. Includes information and advice on: drinking customs, dress, gestures, greetings and forms of address, giving gifts and flowers, business cards, and more. 

OANDA.com -- http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic
Rates are available for more than 140 currencies for any day since January 1, 1990. Updated daily by Olsen & Associates.

Travlang -- http://www.travlang.com/
Travel information in many different languages. Check out “Foreign Languages for Travelers” which offers translation of basic phrases from one language to another.

World Time Server -- http://www.worldtimeserver.com/
Worldwide current time available for 618 cities. Search by typing in one or more cities or countries or select from a list.

U.S. Dept of State Travel Warnings -- http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html
The official word from the State Dept on which countries present special problems. Don't leave home without it

  Free Travel Brochures <http://www.travelinformation.com/>.

   
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Maps & Locators
   
  Atlapedia Online -- http://www.atlapedia.com/
Physical and geographic country maps, complete with statistics and factoids. 

Maps on Us -- http://www.mapsonus.com/
Excellent mapping and routing service with detailed maps and driving directions. If you register (free) it will save your preferences and addresses.

MapQuest! -- http://www.mapquest.com/
This free, interactive street atlas of the continental United States gives you mileage, door-to-door or city-to-city, and street maps with driving directions. Also has trip planning information.

The National Atlas of the United States  -- http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/
An interactive map of the United States allowing the user to "map more than 2 million geographic names" in a series of map layers showing many features with a Zoom In/Zoom Out.  Also includes a terrain relief and elevation map and a seasonal vegetation growth map, which require Shockwave.

Topozone -- http://www.topozone.com/
Every USGS topographic 1:100,000, 1:25,000, and 1:24,000 scale map for the entire United States. If you need help interpreting the maps, try Topographic Map Symbols <http://mapping.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/booklets/symbols/>  from the USGS. Topographic maps are also available at Trails.com <http://www.trails.com/explore/maps.asp>.

World Maps Interactive Atlas    --  http://travel.epicurious.com/cgi-bin/maps.cgi?link=intro
Get down to street level of more than 2 million places in the world and search by street address in the United States, Canada or London. Provided by the Epicurious Traveller.

   
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Specialized Travel
   
 

Elderhostel -- http://www.elderhostel.org/
Elderhostel information, including a searchable index to national and international catalogs by area of interest or geographic area.

Pamela Lanier's Family Travel -- http://www.familytravelguides.com/
From Road Food recipes to packing advice, this site focuses on the joys of traveling with kids.

Her Own Way: Advice for the Woman Traveller  -- http://www.voyage.gc.ca/main/pubs/her_own_way-en.asp
A Canadian site with common sense advice for the woman traveler.

Petswelcome.com  -- http://www.petswelcome.com/
Provides an extensive list of hotels, campgrounds and other accommodations where pets are allowed in the United States, Canada, and France.

TravelDog  -- http://www.traveldog.com/
A guide for travel with your dog, with dog friendly accommodations arranged by state, information on kennels, petsitters and pet home exchange.  Also, tips on travel by plane and car, choosing a kennel, and staying at hotels. 

   
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Wisconsin Travel
   
 

Yahoo Index of Wisconsin -- http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/Wisconsin/
Everything Yahoo saw fit to index about Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Department of Tourism -- http://tourism.state.wi.us/

Wisconsin Farmers Markets -- http://www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/States/Wisconsin.htm
A listing by city of the 100+ farmers markets in the state, with dates and addresses.

   
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