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How to get the best results from Search.com's Travel channel
On this page: Tips for finding Advice
· Cheap tickets · Hotels
· Maps
Where to go? What to do?
Not
sure whether you'll enjoy that exotic locale? Worried about your
health or safety off the beaten path? You can select the
Destination Guides category with the Health & Safety
category to get advice from over a dozen travel guides —
Lonely Planet, Travel Notes, and Kasbah — as well
as travel advisories from the US Bureau of Consular Affairs and
Center for Disease Control. To check for travel
tips and advisories about London, here's what we filled in:
Find travel tickets cheaper
If your travel dates are
flexible, use the Discount Airfares option to check for cheap
flights to your destination from sources like Discount-Airfare.com,
Yahoo! Travel, TravelHUB, and Best Fares. For best results,
enter the name of a single destination city. Here's how we looked for
a dirt-cheap
seat from San Francisco to London:
Find a place to
stay
Unless a friend's fancy flat awaits you in London,
the next step is finding a place to stay. Check the Lodging box
before you search to get a listing of hotels in your destination city.
We checked both Discount Airfares and Lodging to get listings
for tickets and
hotels in one step:
Map it out for
me...
If your travel plans are limited to the
continental U.S., you can use the Maps search to get
geographical details for any location in the United States from
National Geographic, the US Geological Survey, and Microsoft
TerraServer. For example, if you were interested in seeing where
exactly Julian lies
in relation to the rest of California, you could query the Travel
channel like this:
More tips
- Select multiple boxes for your search. Get
results from as many or as few travel categories as you need —
you can always click to see more in any particular category from the
results page.
- See
what other people think. Get tips and advice from other travelers
like you in our Reviews &
Opinions channel. For example, here's what
people have to say about London on Usenet, forums, message boards,
and review sites.
- Once you know where you're
going, search the Web channel to find more sites about your
destination.
- Find more travel planning resources in CNET's Travel Planner
Now you're ready to search the Travel channel!
Questions? Comments? Send us feedback!
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