Continued from the previous post.:)
Planning for vacations is also a lot easier than ever before too. There are web sites that assist in every imaginable aspect of traveling – including searching for lowest airfares, checking of customs and Visa requirements, getting the best rates for Hotels and accommodations, figuring out the local transportation networks, and deciding on the best places to visit at each location. And there’re even travel advisory portals that put all those aspects together on the same web site.
Funnily, while the best web site-based information is possibly more current since it’d be peer-edited and generated and often freely available, nothing still beats the feel of picking up a printed travel guide of the place you want to visit, and getting all that information in a handy volume. There’re a couple of well-known travel guide publishers out there, each with their fans and critics. There’s the Insight Guides, Lonely Planet, Frommer’s, and The Rough Guides. My favorite remains the DK Eyewitness Guides though, and largely for their amazing illustrations and cutaway maps and diagrams for all the touristy spots.
These guides don’t come cheap, and they usually retail for between SGD36 to SGD50, though with the right membership discounts, the prices become nearer to what you’d pay for through online retailers like Amazon.
Either way, I just placed another order with Amazon UK for three travel books of the places I’m/we’re likely going to visit in the next few years: one DK Eyewitness Guide for New England and another for Japan, and an Insight Guide for Taiwan. The latter two guides are for the leisure vacations for Ling and myself, while the first guide is for the possible Boston trip – to which this time I’m determined to use as much of my free time during the nine weekends to see the entire state.:)
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