Looking for tips to help make traveling a little easier? Check out these travel website suggestions from our expert LesTout.com Travel Guide!
Seat Guru – seatguru.com
Want to find the best seat on an airplane? Check out Seat Guru they have all the airlines and the different configuration of airplanes listed so you can find the best place to sit on those long flights or even a short haul. This website also offers useful information about the airlines including phone numbers, website links, air alliances, frequent flyer programs, and general policy information. Seatguru.com is a useful website that contains advice on how to find the best seats on an airplane as well as other useful travel tips.
Mile High Swap
Got frequent flier miles you are not using or do you need more miles to take a trip? Then check out the Mile High Swap website and trade your miles for other useful items or swap goods and services for miles. They bill themselves as the “world’s first consumer to consumer marketplace where you can use your miles like cash for virtually anything.” And tell you can “Swap items and services with other members for miles or vice versa.” So clean out your closets and swap for more frequent flier miles or get rid of those soon to expire miles and get something useful in return.
GuideGecko
Looking for a travel guide book, check out GuideGecko, “a new online platform for travel guides” that offers all major guidebooks plus a selection of guide books by independent writers. You have the option of saving a tree by downloading an electronic version of your guide book or having a paper copy sent to you. They boast competitive prices up to 30% below retail and have over 1,600 guides on more than 160 countries and over 225 cities. The guides are classified by locations, region and other categories including activities such as diving or shopping or traveling with children.
The site is easy to use and search and has a publishing component so if you want to write and market your own guide book GuideGecko is the place to do it. So if you are looking for the most recent version of a travel guide or you want a paperless copy, or you want to write your own guide, you can do it all at GuideGecko.
Famous Fat Dave’s
Planning a trip to New York City and want to eat like a local? Then why not book one of Famous Fat Dave’s food tours. Advertised as “chow your way through the real NYC in a classic white checker cab with … a cabbie who has eaten it all”. Dave offers a variety of tours including a Pickle Tickle Tour, a Pizza tour, a Honeymoon tour, a Phallic Foods tour for bachelorette parties, a Midnight Munchies Tour, a Garlic Tour or you can customize your own NYC food tour. Dave’s prices include everything; food, soft drinks, gas and parking. Tours last between two and six hours.
So if you are looking for the best seat on an airplane visit the Seat Guru. If you want to swap your unused frequent flier miles for something useful, check out the Mile High Swap website. Get the latest version of a travel guide at GuideGecko or even publish your own guide book and earn from your travels. And when in NYC eat like a local with Famous Fat Dave and his eclectic food tours.
