virtualtourist.com

I have been a member,not a very active one, of Virtual Tourist for some nine months now and find it to be a veritable goldmine of information for useful,travel information. You can get up-to-date travel information on the likes of recommended accommodation,the best bars,good restaurants,the most interesting attractions,heritage sites,theatres,and entertainment outlets for countries ranging from Australia to Zimbabwe and for cities from Amsterdam to Zagreb. There are thousands of members from all over the world and you can obtain a very cross-cultural perspective by reading the travel pages on ... more

Travel the world virtually and get a serious case of wanderlust with virtual tourist. The basic concept of the site is that members write about their travels at home and abroad. There are over 284,000 members from 223 countries so there is a lot of variety which makes it interesting. Registering is free and easy all you need to do is give your e-mail address and choose a member name and password. After registering you get your own home page, tools for building pages and a virtual tourist e-mail address (in case you want to write to other members). On your home page there is a little map which ... more

Virtual Tourist is an excellent website for anyone wanting more information on where they might be going for their holidays. The full address is www.virtualtourist.com and my name is Binnie over there. All you need to do to join is type in your name in which you want to be known, and your password and email address. You are then ready to create your homepage. You will need to have a scanner to put you own photos on the page and they have to be converted into jpeg format. It is very easy to do, if I can do it then anybody can.. You then click on the map to add a location in which you want to do ... more

When it comes to going on holiday I have to admit to being a compulsive organiser and scheduler. I wish I was one of those people who could get off a plane and just go with the flow. I like to have every single guide book available and even this isn’t enough. I need to have checked every possible web site for some local information and maybe a few attractions off the beaten track. With this I have an "itinerary" which in theory allows us to make the most of our trip away. I should say at this point I no doubt sound like the most annoying person to travel with. To be fair the reality is always ... more

I joined Virtual Tourist about a year ago, however I didn't actually offer up any pages on it until October 2000. The truth is I felt a bit intimitdated when I saw some of the exotic places other Virtual Tourist members had been to and felt my best offering at the time of two weeks in Orlando may be sneered at. How wrong could I be! When I eventually did get around to offering a few titbits of advice about Orlando, without any photo's as I hadn't learned how to use the scanner at this point, I had received a lovely comment at the bottom of my page within 24 hours. "Great start, I love your ... more