Resources

The following are a series of links to websites I highly recommend you utilize for answers to many questions that you may have and to highly useful product sites.

Begin with our Island Travel site: www.islandtvl.com Note: Please do not use the site’s contact form. Contact Clem Dietze directly.

To learn more about the benefits of dealing with a Virtuoso agency: www.virtuoso.com Click on the Why Choose Virtuoso button.

Maps for USA & Canada: www.randmcnally.com/

Maps for Overseas Travel: These two sites sell the most detailed maps available. 

www.michelintravel.com/ and www.globecorner.com/s/135.html           

Guide Books:

www.lonelyplanet.com - The least biased and perhaps most accurate general information guide books.

www.michelintravel.com - Michelin’s Green Guides are the most detailed guides you can buy especially for European Travel. I never leave home without one or more for the areas I am visiting.

Currency conversions: www.xe.com/ucc

US State Department Travel Warnings and basic fact sheets on all countries: www.state.gov

Passport information: www.state.gov/passport/

Weather anywhere in the world: www.worldweather.org/

What you can and cannot carry in your luggage for flights: www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm

Google for any of the websites of the tour or cruise operators I have mentioned but pay little attention to the cruise pricing as we have access to discounts. 

Hotels: We pay handsomely for an unbiased hotel rating service. Contact Clem Dietze for detailed information and ratings of hotels secured from this service.

As most government tourist offices no longer distribute detailed literature on cities or countries, Google for the areas of interest to you.