www.travelonline.com
This content-led site is great for help on planning trips and for its range of facilities. It offers free access to guidebooks published by Rough Guides and Lonely Planet as well as online editions of Traveller magazine, the "Traveller's Handbook".

www.go-fly.co.uk
A direct booking site from the pioneers of cheap, no-frills flying that offers competitive prices and good service. Another cheap flight site is www.easyjet.com.

www.bbc.co.uk/weather
Check the latest weather and news reports on your chosen destination anywhere in the world. Informative and accurate.

www.travelex.co.uk
If you don't have the time to go to the bank and change your currency, you can buy the foreign cash online and collect it at the airport on the way.

www.booktailor.com
offers a personalised set of guidance notes for you to take on holiday, based on your selection of information from the website.

Postscript

Information provided by Jonathon Lorie, editor of Wexas Traveller magazine, available on www.travelleronline.co.uk.