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Guide picks
The web has many great resources to help you plan your vacations, choose resorts and lodgings, get cultural background, etc.

Expedia's Best Places
Articles on many destinations, at Microsoft's Expedia travel website.

Fodor's
Create your own miniguide for 99 travel destinations, at this website by the well-known Fodor's Travel Publications.

Frommer's Destinations
Nice coverage of the world's most popular spots, at the Arthur Frommer travel website.

Geographia
This website's opulent coverage of travel destinations around the world includes cultural background and history.

Insiders' Guides
Another informative website by a travel guidebooks publisher; the coverage for many US destinations includes "kids sections".

Lonely Planet: Destinations
As with LP's practical and irreverent guidebooks, this website covers culture, costs, attractions, getting there & away, getting around and off the beaten track... Plus pictures and travelers' reports.

Rough Guide
This joint effort, by Rough Guide guidebooks and HotWired, is in its own words "unstuffy" and "unflappable".

Travelocity Destination Guide
Attractions, culture, backroads, hotels, car rental, weather, and lots more.

Time Out
This hip website from Time Out magazine covers major cities, and usually includes a Kids section.

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