For
an overview of gay travel and essential advice for getting
the best deals, start at the Travel
Deals and Advice.
While gay travel and gay
travel agents have sprung up everywhere
- few seem to have much to offer older men.
However we have created extensive calendars of Events for
older men and admirers.
Crusing (on ships!) is
an increasingls popular option for many people but
there are many options
to
choose
from to get the perfect trip for you, so read our Guide
to Gay Cruising and then the
Gay Cruise Calendar.
Would you like to go to all of the places you've ever dreamed of, make new
friends, have a unique holiday and save money at the same time?
Gay home
exchange enables you to enjoy the comforts of staying
in a private home when travelling.
Find out how your home holds the key to staying for free.
Home
Around the World is a gay owned and run home swap, guest
and host service. Our worldwide members discover
imaginative, and unique solutions to create the perfect
holiday.
InternetTravelTips.com
Other sites tell you the problem, this tells you what
to do about it. Honest, cold, hard comparisons. This site and
email newsletter do not attempt to keep you up to date with
all of the fare sales and specials but tell you how to use
the travel systems to get the best deals. Excellent links.
Best for travel in the USA.
Money
Saving Expert.com The sight design is "busy"
and the links tend to favour associated business, but the advice
is
very
good. Best
for
those based in the UK or wanting to travel in Europe.
Expedia.com
Search and Book Flights, Car Rental plus Hotel and Holiday
deals.
Also available in the UK and Germany.
Kayak.com
Travel
search engine that searches multiple airlines and travel
sites to get you the best deal. Fare Watch enables you
to monitor a route for the best price.
ITA
Pricing Software
The search facility behind Orbitz and developers of the Matrix
display.
Travelocity.com
The leading online travel Web site, provides reservations
capabilities for 95 percent of all airline seats sold, more
than 47,000 hotels, more than 50 car rental companies and
more than 5,000 vacation and cruise packages.
Orbitz
Orbitz Gay Travel is a new travel section devoted to travel
deals for the LGB community. The Orbitz Deal Detector
enables you to specifiy a price for a trip.
Site59
Offers lastminute deals including
the "Meet me in" facility providing for discount travel and
accomodation for up to 3 people from 2 US airports to meet
at the same destination.
Lastminute.com
Specialises in late booking
discount hotels, flights and vacations.The gay section provides holidays, nights out and pampering
aimed at gay customers.
Discount
Comparison Applications
The
following need to be installed on your PC but they compare
prices from multiple websites to give you the best deal and
save you from having to go to each site in turn to check prices.
Sidestep
Browser add-on searches many other web sites directly (includes
"web only" fares), also does cars & hotels.
Can be intrusive but go to "preferences" tab and
turn off "auto-search" & e-mail options.
Travelaxe Travelaxe is a free
hotel rate comparison tool with direct links to
reserve hotel rooms. It is a windows application that needs
to be downloaded and installed on your computer. Travelaxe
searches major travel websites for hotel rates in
3624 cities from 109 different countries. Prices are compared
side-by-side, with the cheapest prices highlighted along
with direct links to book the rooms you find at the travel
websites you trust. Best for US and UK locations as the integrated
proximity mapping is low resolution outside these areas.
Hotel
Discounts
Alpha
Rooms
For discount hotel rooms in most resorts and cities. Very good for European
destinations and for accomodation in holiday destinations if you use budget
airlines. No map search unlike TravelAxe
GayRes Specialist
booking company for gay and gay-friendly hotels who will
ensure you get the double bed you booked without raised
eyebrows at the front desk!
HotelQuest
HotelQuest International is a unique hotel room reservation
consolidator that provides access to thousands of hotels
around the globe.
HotelDiscounts.net
Leading hotel provider on the net offering discounts of
up to 70% off hotels in major cities worldwide at the lowest
guaranteed rates.
GrayGay.com comments: Over 12,000 listings of gay-friendly businesses in the US, Canada, Mexico,
Costa
Rica, the Caribbean, and most European capitals.
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