Here's a Fast Round-Up of the Websites that Will Help You Find Value on Your Next Vacation

It's vacation time. We're fast approaching the start of summer, and it's important to begin choosing both flights and accommodations. As an aid towards making those decisions, it might be useful to review a number of websites that usually prove helpful in finding the top values of travel. Here are the ones I'd suggest using:
 
For finding low-cost values in European hotels: www.venere.com (though it actually deals with the entire world, its headquarters in Rome give it a decided talent for finding European bargains).
 
For booking low-cost tours of port cities on cruises anywhere in the world, www.cruiseexcursions.com , a British outfit that is currently and considerably undercutting similar companies in price.
 
For finding low-cost apartments in cities all over the world: www.airbnb.com and www.wimdu.com .
 
For finding hotel rooms in the U.S.A.: I like www.getaroom.com , that actually encourages you to make toll-free phone calls to its telephone reservationists, via the number listed in its website.
 
For finding top values in air transportation both domestically and internationally: www.dohop.com , www.hipmunk.com , and www.momondo.com .
 
For snaring a free-of-charge overnight in the homes or apartments of outgoing people around the world: www.couchsurfing.org , www.usservas.org , www.globalfreeloaders.com .
 
For vacation homes: www.vrbo.com or www.homeaway.com .
 
There are others, of course, but I've found top values with the ones named above.