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Jove · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: Over the hill

Mine are:

seat61.com (rail travel facts, advice and details worldwide).

WildChina Travel (Good articles about traveling in China.)

072.com (in Korean...cheap last-minute airfares)

nextour.co.kr (in Korean...cheap airfares and foreigners can sign up)

agoda.com (hotel rooms in Asia...some pretty good deals)

I know more but can't think of them at the moment. What are some of your go-to websites for travel.

bbb0777 · Joined: 24 Aug 2009

wikitravel.org - For the majority of my planning
wikipedia.org - For finding sites to visit/etc.
tripadvisor.com - For finding hotel rooms (not hostels)
onlinetour.co.kr - For flights originating in S. Korea
http://supersearch.travelzoo.com/ - For flights in general (+Orbitz)
http://itasoftware.com/ - For flights

Did you mean agoda.com for hotel rooms?

neil537 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Location: Incheon, South Korea

www.kayak.com/co.uk

good flight comparison site, not 100% coverage, but good for an overview.

+1 for Wikipedia/Wikitravel

runthegauntlet · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Location: the southlands.

another for wikitravel.

Also like travbuddy.com and the thorntree forum on lonely planet for up to date info. and ideas.

bbb0777 · Joined: 24 Aug 2009

Could you expand upon the last-minute airfares on 072.com?

Jove · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: Over the hill

072.com, in my experience, has some of the cheapest tickets available if you are buying less than two weeks before your trip and are only planning to stay for a limited time (less than a week). For example, about a year ago, I got tickets to Bangkok a week before I left that were 100,000 won cheaper than any other site or travel agency I tried.

Also, 072 and nexttour allow you to buy tickets and then transfer the money through your atm or internet banking, which is handy if you don't have a credit card (or don't want to use it for some reason). I know other Korean sites do this as well, but I have had difficulty with some of the others as I don't have a Korean ID number.

AD35 · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 9:58 pm Post subject:

Jove · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: Over the hill

Foreigner ID numbers work on both websites and they will accept non-Korean credit cards.

Notorious · Joined: 14 Nov 2009

Lonelyplanet Thorntreeforum has great advice.

also check out Kayak.com for flights.

Hope · Joined: 22 Nov 2003

virtualtourist.com

curiousaboutkorea · Joined: 21 Jan 2009

www.travelfish.org is awesome for Southeast Asia (at least for the countries they cover). They do some pretty informative stuff. Independent traveler contributor, with professionalism. very good.

AD35 · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:33 pm Post subject:

Just wondering, what browsers are you guys using for the Korean travel ticket sites? I have problems using I.E 8, firefox, and chrome and the only browser that works is I.E 6 that i'm using at the school....

BTW Jove, I tried to use my ARC number on the site but it didn't work and I don't know how to get a foreign id number.