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Back in , I planned my three-week honeymoon to Southeast Asia relying solely on information I found on online travel forums. The detailed tips I received from mostly anonymous members proved to be invaluable: Advice on the best rooms at the Bangkok Shangri-La , an outline of customs procedures at the Siem Reap airport, the name of a guide for Angkor Wat. Social media networks have reduced the impact of Internet message boards, as this recent New York Times article notes. If I have a question about a destination today, I'm more likely to ask other traveling friends on Facebook, or contact the tourism board directly through Twitter. And why write up a detailed trip report for a message board when I can simply leave a tip on Yelp or Foursquare? Yet travel forums and message boards still have their place in trip planning, especially if you're looking for very specific information. On Frommer's Community Forums , for example, recent users were getting answers on everything from weekend train routes between Sorrento and Perugia to safety concerns in Madagascar.

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My plan was to spend 2 weeks in Portugal and then meet a friend in Spain for weeks of exploring there.

What do you all think of Google killing the printed Frommer's series? I was a bit stunned and saddened to hear it. Any chance Rick Steves will do the same? Count me as someone who definitely prefers printed guide books. When I got my new Rick Steves guidebooks in the mail last month for our upcoming trip, I was like a kid at Christmas!

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We, in MA, get a week off school in Feb. Rome, arriving on a Sunday. Sometimes paper, more recently e-book. As for travel guidebooks, I could go either way and don't really care if they vanish or not. The only aspect of the current Frommer's travel guide books, that I like, is that they have descriptions of very many places in a country : places that are not mentioned in Rick Steves' travel guide books. How do those kids compete against kids who have one or two computers at home and all hours of the evening and weekend to work on them? During and after the tsunami in Japan, residents in Tokyo and elsewhere regularly posted updates about places that were safe for tourists to go. You must check the box to subscribe. He doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon You must check the box to subscribe.

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We'll be flying into Frankfurt from the US and leaving out of Barcelona. It is so pathetic, it is an embarrassment to the parent company. Regarding the demise of the book Log in with social media: Log in with Facebook. Give back. I don't think paper books will ever disappear, but they'll get less common as the digital generation advances. He would say, also on the Island of Hawaii, in Hawi when he went to the loo in the middle of the night a cane spider flew across the room at Count me as someone who definitely prefers printed guide books. What he brought to the travel table years ago made travel to Europe understandable and fun. Also, i use Google alot too eventho, i have the RS and other resources. Did they even bother to proofread the book before they slapped a new cover on it?