Map and Travel Resources

Travel Boutique: Visit Spies Online's own travel boutique to find the best travel deals, luggage and more!

Flight Aware: The site allows you to view and track activity for any private (IFR) or commercial flight; you may also see scheduled, enroute, and recent flight activity for any airport.

MapQuest: This resource can do anything from provide you with a map and/or driving directions to helping you to locate hotels in a specific area. It's really a complete trip-planning resource.

Map Blast: Great maps and directions!

Maporama: Map any spot in the world!

MetroPlanet: This site is a gateway to subways, metros, undergrounds and other mass transit systems around the world.

Travelocity Map Center: Find a place with these incredibly detailed interactive maps/driving directions.

Universal Currency Converter: It has every known world currency!

Travelocity Custom Mini Travel Guides: Create a personalized travel guide to take with you on your trip -- hotels, restaurant reviews, currency rates, and more.

Travelocity Weather Center: Check the weather before you travel!

Hotel Reviews: Looking for the perfect accommodations? Let Frommer's experts find you hotels that meet your specific needs, courtesy of Travelocity.

Travel Pets: Here is a handy travel directory of hotels that will accommodate pets.

Pets Welcome: Here is a nice site devoted to traveling with pets. There is also a directory of lodgings that will allow pets.

Pet Taxi: Pet Taxi provides international and domestic transportation to wherever your pet needs to go, with or without you.

Restaurant Reviews: Hungry for some culinary advice? Let Frommers' experts find you restaurants that match your preferences, courtesy of Travelocity.

World Time Server: Find out what time it is anywhere in the world.

How Far Is It?: Find the distance between two cities.

Expedia.com's Flight Reservation Wizard: Use this tool to find the best airfare. You can also use this site to search for hotels, car rentals, cruises and good vacation deals.

Travelocity's Flight Page: This tool can also be used to find flight deals. The site also allows you to search for hotels, car rentals, cruises and bargain vacations.

Seat Guru: Take the guesswork out of choosing a seat on an airplane.

Greyhound: Get Greyhound bus information here.

Amtrack: Get Amtrack train information here.

Rand McNally Road Construction Database: Check out this database before planning your trip to see if road construction might affect the route you have to take.

U.S. Dept. Of State Passport Services and Information: Everything you need to know about passports is here.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Find out about the rules for bringing things back from your trip. For some items, like computers, you may wish to fill out a customs registration form to prove that you had the item before leaving the United States.

Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services: Lots of information is here, including links to the U.S. Border Patrol and the procedure for getting immigration information via the FOIA.

U.S. Dept. Of State Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets: Be sure to check this site before making your travel plans.

Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory: Find links to tourism offices worldwide. Many will send free travel brochures and such upon request.

CDC Travelers' Health Reference: Find out health information for specific destinations. Learn about outbreaks of concern to international travelers. Become aware of CDC’s vaccination recommendations for travelers. Find out how to avoid illness from food and water and what you should know before taking children to other countries.

Corporate Travel Safety: This site gives all sorts of helpful advice on how to protect yourself while traveling. It has some very informative articles. There's one that tells about how to protect yourself from phone card fraud while traveling that you should definitely read.

Embassy World: Find all of the world's embassies here in a searchable database.

Fly Rights: What are your rights if your airline flight gets cancelled or delayed?
The Aviation Consumer Protection page tells all about your travel rights here.

Complaint Resolution Service For Travelers: Complain to an airline, hotel or car rental company here. This service will ask you a few questions and then create a complaint letter for you to send, which you can modify as you see fit. They will then forward the letter to the appropriate person for you.

PlanetFeedback Complaint Service For Travelers: This service allows you to complain to any company in a travel-related industry. You can also check the ratings of companies here.

Complain To Aviation Consumer Protection: Have a problem with an airline? Find out how to complain to the government here.

Transportation Security Administration: Find out the current security rules for flying, including the latest list of permitted and prohibited items.

Aviation Consumer Protection: Get reports about flight delays, mishandled baggage, oversales and consumer complaints here before deciding which airline to fly.

The National Aviation Safety Data Analysis Center: Take a look at information about airline accidents, incidents and other safety information before choosing which airline to fly.

The Mile High Club: Yes, there's really a club!

CDC Sanitation Inspections of International Cruise Ships -- Database Search: Before you take a cruise, be sure to check out the results of the ship's sanitation inspections.

U.S. Fire Administration Hotel and Motel Safety: Before staying at a hotel, check the database here to see if it adheres to fire regulations.

Alta Vista Translator: Whether you want to translate a phrase or an entire web page, this service is very convenient.

Aviation Resources: Everything related to aviation is here - nice flight trackers and more!

Radio Locator: Find radio stations around the world!

Cybercafes: Sometimes when you travel, you will need to find a cybercafe. Spies Online has assembled a directory of cybercafe directories.