Build Your Stay with Stay.com

Voted one of Time's 50 Best Websites, Stay.com is no ordinary travel planner. Sure, you can do all the normal stuff you do on other travel websites, including find information about a city, chat with fellow travelers, and book hotel rooms. But Stay.com steps it up a notch, turning travel planning into a fun and social activity.

Once you find your destination, read the reviews, view sites and attractions, and plan what you want to do, you can put everything into your own personal travel guide. The guide can be saved to your cell phone and viewed offline, or printed out into a compact format which you can fold and put in your pocket for easy reference. Plus, share your guide with friends and family, and continue to collect places you like, and add them later.

Plus, with Stay.com's Easy Hotel Booking, you can:

• Find reviews and make reservations at more than 100 000 hotels
• Reserve with secure booking
• View negotiated deals
• Take advantage of no cancellation fees
• View customer reviews

Check out Stay.com's Guide and get started today.

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Fun Social Networking Sites for Travelers

IgoUgo
IgoUgo won the Webby Award for Best Travel Site in the US in 2005, and it’s only gotten better. Not only can you compare rates on all sorts of trips and travels, you can read stories and tips, share your travel experience, ask questions in the forum, view photos from traveler’s top picks, and much more. As a bonus, contributors to IgoUgo are awarded GO points, which can be redeemed at online retailers and used for frequent flyer miles.

TravBuddy
With TravBuddy, not only can you share reviews, memories, and photos, you can find travel companions and meet new friends. Create a profile page, and personalize it with travel maps, games, and more. Trav Buddy is free, and has been featured in PC World, Real Simple, and Budget Travel.

Quickly and Easily Search for Cheap Airline Tickets with Momondo

Momondo.com is a cutting edge search engine recommended by Frommer's, Smarter Travel, Time, and CNN, among other places. As a search engine, it searches multiple websites around the world, through hundreds or airline company websites, online travel agencies, etc., to give you the cheapest flights available. No need for you to spend hours online checking individual sites and comparing them. Momondo does it for you! (They do not sell tickets, however, but they will link you to where you need to go.)

At Momondo, you can also book a hotel, and find out information on your destination. Their travel and city guides are continuously updated, with information on food, fashion, art, lifestyle, shopping, sites, nightlife, transportation, and more.

Online Sites that Help You Save Money on Fuel

There are numerous sites on the internet to help you track your fuel consumption and save on gas. Here are 3 of the best:

Gas Buddy. Gas Buddy is a popular site that will help you find the cheapest fuel rates in your city. Simply type in your city, state, and zip, and you'll have access to prices all over town.

Fuelfrog. Easily track gas mileage and be alerted to any changes in your vehicle's fuel efficiency with Fuelfrog.

AccuFuel. AccuFuel is an app for your iPhone or iPod Touch. It monitors your vehicle's fuel consumption and efficiency with each fill up, and presents the data in easy to read graphs.

Organize Your Travel Information and Itinerary

Traveling can be stressful, which is why it's crucial that you're organized with your itinerary and traveling information. TripIt is an online personal travel assistant that can help you stay organized and stress-free. Simply e-mail your flight, rental car, hotel and other information to TripIt, and it will prepare a master itinerary complete with maps, nearby restaurants, the forecast, and more. You will be able to access your itinerary via email, mobile device, or by printing it out. You can also share the itinerary with others in your traveling party.

Trip it is compatible with more than 250 websites, including airlines, hotels, rental car agencies, travel agencies, and cruise lines.