Route comparison
London to Paris: train or flight?
The train wins on total door-to-door time for most travellers. Here is when flying still makes sense.
Travel guides
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10 guides on getting from A to B: route comparisons, port transfers and the checks worth making before you book. Every one says when its travel details were last verified.
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Route comparison
Rome to Florence: train, flight, or rental car?
Fast trains cover the 232 km in about ninety minutes. A car only earns its keep if you are stopping along the way.
Trip planning
Planning a Greek island trip using flights and ferries
Build the itinerary around ferry days, not flight days — and leave the last island hop well clear of your flight home.
Port transfer
Getting from Miami's airports to the cruise port
PortMiami is about nine miles from MIA — but the airport you fly into changes the answer completely.
Port transfer
Getting from Orlando's airport to Port Canaveral
Forty-two miles of toll road separate MCO from the terminals. The transfer you choose decides how relaxed the morning is.
Decision guide
When renting a car makes sense on a European trip
A car is the wrong tool for capital-to-capital trips and the right one for everything off the rail map.
Checklist
What to compare before booking a flight
The headline fare is the least useful number on the page. Nine things worth checking first.
Checklist
What to check before reserving a rental car
The daily rate is rarely the price. Check these before you confirm, not at the counter.
Trip planning
How to plan a trip with several kinds of transport
Separate bookings mean nobody is responsible for your connection. Here is how to build slack into the plan.
Decision guide
Choosing shore excursions and attraction tickets
The cruise line tour costs more and guarantees the ship waits. That trade is the whole decision.
Travel category
Tours & Attraction Tickets
What to know before booking, and where to book it.
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Common questions
How often are these guides updated?
Every guide carries the date its travel details were last verified, shown under the title and again in the footer. We re-check route facts against the operator, airport or port authority rather than refreshing a date stamp.
Do the guides show prices?
No. We have no live pricing feed, so any fare printed here would be wrong within days. The guides explain how a journey works and what to compare; the provider you click through to runs the actual search.
How does the search on this page work?
It filters the guides already published on this site, entirely inside your browser. Nothing is sent to our server and nothing is stored. It is not a flight or hotel search.
Can I suggest a route or topic?
Yes, and we would like you to. Use the contact form and tell us the journey you are trying to plan. Requests from readers are how most of these were chosen.
What should I do if a guide is out of date?
Tell us. A link to the page and the sentence in question is all we need. Corrections update the guide and its verification date, and they are the most useful messages we get.
What these guides are, and are not.
They are written to help you decide how to make a journey. They do not show live prices or availability, and we are not able to book anything for you. Journey times are approximate and every operator changes its timetable and fares without notice — always confirm on the operator’s own site before committing. How we research and check these guides.