Travel (California)

Travel

Air Travel
Going Abroad	Restaurants, Hotels, Hostels/ Tourist Accommodations
Cruise Travel	Travel Law (Your Rights)
Road Travel	Misc. Tips & Facts

Air Travel

Airlines (Links & Phone#s)	Your Fly Rights
The Best Airfares	Complaints
Online Flight Tracking	Misc.
Airline Trouble/Delays

The Best Airfares

Airfare Bargains (Consumer-SOS)
The best websites for cheap airfares.

Getting The Best Air Fares (General Tips)
Sources of Air Travel Information.

Buying Tickets You Can Transfer Or Resell

Public Charter Flights (Tips)

Your Fly Rights

Fly-rights (Consumer Reports Version)

Fly-rights (DOT Version)

Complaining About A Business (CA)
Learn about the complaint process for particular businesses ranging from airlines to contractors to doctors to real estate agencies. Directory of hundreds of businesses and where to complaint to.

Flight Delays-Protect Your Rights With Rule 240
If your flight is delayed or cancelled, or if you've missed
your flight connection, these policies may give you free
meal vouchers, hotel accommodations, phone calls, and
other amenities.

Information For Travelers With Disabilities (Your Rights & Options)

Air Passengers With Disabilities

Air Travel With Your Pet

Frequent Flyer Programs
What to look for and watch out for.

Aviation Consumer Protection Division Home Page

Rules Of The Air
To find out airline policies on cancellations or delays, get your hands on that contract. A ticket agent must provide a copy if you ask, all 40 pages of excruciating legalese.

http://courts.state.ny.us/tandv/flightdelays.html
Flight Delays, Rights, Remedies, Damages & Class Actions.
Please note: The author presents a smattering of case law from a number of the states. However, don't think you'll win the case just because other states have sided with you on the same issues. No state has to follow the case law of another state. There's no guarantee your state will adopt the same approach.

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Avoiding Airline Trouble/Delays

Avoiding Flying Hassles & Complications

Compensation For Delays, Cancellations & Losses (Consumer-SOS)

Find Out If Your Airport Has Congested Runways Or Delayed Flights (Major US Cities)
Click on their map above for the latest airport conditions around the country.

Rules Of The Air
To find out airline policies on cancellations or delays, get your hands on that contract. A ticket agent must provide a copy if you ask, all 40 pages of excruciating legalese.
Lost Baggage For Delta Flights
This link allows you to enter your lost baggage report number for the latest status of your bag as well as the address or other arrangements that have been made for its delivery to you. Or you can get the same information by calling Delta's Baggage Service Center at (800) 325-8224.

Road Travel

Maps & Directions (Consumer-SOS)

Renting A Car
How to choose a rental company and understand the terms and charges.

National & Local Websites For Ride Sharing
Whether for work or for a one time trip.
For Back Up Site Click Here.

Tripstalker.com
Alerts you by email or text message once a flight, hotel or rental car matching your search criteria turns up.

BNM.com
Car Rentals and rental cars from BreezeNet.com. Find the discount car rental of your choice with one-stop shopping on a variety of rental car deals. We make it easy to search by rental car discounts, car rental company, or search by location (for example, Orlando Car Rentals, Los Angeles Car Rentals, Phoenix Car Rentals, and other national car rental and international rental car deals).

Kayak.com
Easily search over 100 sites for cheap airfare, discount hotels, and car rentals.

Yahoos List Of Rental Car Companies
Links you to most car rental companies.

Driving Abroad

Find Your Local Newspaper, Magazine, Radio & TV Stations
Got a complaint? Give them a little bad press and you're bargaining power increases tremendously. Select your state, and then click on your county or city for the proper media to report to. (DC Not Included).

Tips on Renting at the Airport
Renting at the airport may be more costly than taking a cab to an off-airport site, since local governments levy surcharges and taxes to pay for airport expansions. That could add 10 percent to your bill.

Maps

Mapquest
Driving directions in the US, Canada & Europe.

Google Maps & Directions

www.mapsonus.com
Provides road maps and driving directions.

Yahoo-Maps
Free and you don't need to register..

Free Map Software & Other Resources

Mapopolis (Maps for Hand-helds, Palm tops, etc)

Cruise Travel

Complaining About A Business (CA)
Look under AIR, TOUR and TRAVEL. Directory of hundreds of businesses and where to complaint to.

Find Your Local Newspaper, Magazine, Radio & TV Stations
Give them a little bad press and you're bargaining power increases tremendously. Select your state, and then click on your county or city for the proper media to report to. (DC Not Included).

The Cruise Passenger's Rights and Remedies.

http://courts.state.ny.us/tandv/tasah.html
Travel Abroad, Sue at Home.

http://courts.state.ny.us/tandv/toac.html
Tour Operators and Air Carriers: Modern Theories of Liability.

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Restaurants, Hotels & Other Tourist Accommodations
Hotels, Inns & Youth Hostels
Restaurants & Other Tourist Accommodations

Hotels, Inns & Hostels
The Cheapest Rates (Hotel Location Services)
Tips, Articles, & Complaints

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Tips, Articles & Complaints

Complaining About A Business (CA)
Learn about the complaint process for particular businesses ranging from airlines to contractors to doctors to real estate agencies. Directory of hundreds of businesses and where to complaint to.

Complaints/Your Rights When You Paid By Credit Card

State Tourism Agencies Or Promotional Pages (All 50 States)

Find Your Local Newspaper, Magazine, Radio & TV Stations
Give them a little bad press and you're bargaining power increases tremendously. Select your state, and then click on your county or city for the proper media to report to. (DC Not Included).

Related Topics
Contracts
Cars
Lawyers & Courts
Food Matters

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Hotel Location Services

Tripstalker.com
Alerts you by email or text message once a flight, hotel or rental car matching your search criteria turns up.

Kayak.com
Easily search over 100 sites for cheap airfare, discount hotels, and car rentals.

Find Your Chamber Of Commerce (World Wide)

State Tourism Agencies Or Promotional Pages (All 50 States)

Hotel Reservations Network (800) 964-6835
This agency can hook you up with good deals anywhere within the U.S. and abroad. Let them know of your complaints so they can steer people to better hotels next time around. Doing so helps other travelers and also keeps the Hotel Reservations Network from getting a bad reputation with consumers.

Expedia.com
Searches for the cheapest rates. Go to their Hotel Wizard and plug in your preferences, i.e. your destination, # of people staying with you and desired hotel amenities (non-smoking, swimming pool, wheelchair access, etc.).

Bed & Breakfast Inns Online
A guide to over 2,750 inns throughout the United States & Caribbean.

Youth Hostels Here & Abroad
Over 4,500 youth hostels to choose from.

Places To Stay
Places to Stay.com is the online reservation service for romantic bed & breakfasts, resorts, and unique hotels.

USAHotelGuide
Pick your hotel and your price. A FREE Reservation Service for Over
40,000 Hotels & Resorts WorldWide.

Roomsavers.com
Offers bargain rates and discounts on over 5,000 U.S. hotels, motels and resorts. See Also www.hoteldiscounts.com

Room Finders (800) 473-7829
provides accommodations in over 100 cities nationwide. Hotels pays commission directly.

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Advice From The American Hotel+Motel Association Regarding complaints: To find the movers and shakers to complain to, check out the Directory Of Hotel And Motel Companies, which can be found in your local library.
This directory has the names addresses and phone numbers of the real decision makers such as the hotel management companies, franchisers, owning companies and hotel chain operators. Note: many major travel magazines have complaint columns. Your reference librarian can tell the most prominent ones.

Always use a credit card to secure travel arrangements such as airline tickets, rental cars or hotel reservations.

Then, if you have a problem with merchandise or services that you charged to a credit card and you have tried to work the problem out with the seller, you may have the right to withhold payment from the card issuer for the merchandise or services. The amount you may withhold includes the charge for the purchase, plus any finance or related charges. See CONSUMER DEBT AND CREDIT PROBLEMS-Disputes Over Merchandise Or Services.

For more information see Disputing Billing Errors/Contesting Bad Services & Merchandise.

http://courts.state.ny.us/tandv/overcoat.html
Hotel & Restaurant Liability For Lost Overcoats.

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Restaurants & Other Tourist Accommodations

Find Your Chamber Of Commerce (World Wide)

State Tourism Agencies Or Promotional Pages (All 50 States)

Related Topics
Food Matters

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