::  TRAVEL TOOLS  :: Below please find an assortment of travel tools to assist you in researching trips to ASLH Conferences. We begin with information specific to this year's conference and continue with more general travel tools.
ASLH 2008 :  Ottawa, Ontario Conference Hotel Information:   The Fairmont Château Laurier Hotel 1 Rideau Street Ottawa, Ontario CANADA K1N8S7 Reservations 1(800) 257-7544 Phone: (613) 241-4801414 FAX: (613) 562-7030 email:chateaulaurier@fairmont.com http://www.fairmont.com/Laurier/ Information about how to obtain the conference rate at the hotel will be available at this site shortly. The room-sharing form will appear in the this summer's Newsletter. REMINDER: New regulations, for all practical purposes, require that U.S. citizens have a passport in order to return from Canada. Check your passport. If its expiry date is before November 2008, you're going to need a new one (and it takes a while to get one). Don't get cut short at the last minute. (The forms of identification that will be accepted as substitutes for a passport are listed on the State Department website. Driver's licenses are not among them.)
General Travel Trip Advisor Trip Advisor brings together travel resources in a way that offers both depth and clarity.  The site offers links to travel articles in newspapers, online guidebooks such as Frommer's , Fodors , and Rand McNally , information on local attractions, maps, as well as linking to air and hotel deals.  Trip Advisor "Smart Deals " cross reference their popularity index with hot deals to provide bang for the buck. Sidestep Sidestep is a search engine that allows you to search several travel sites at once - Expedia , Travelocity , Jet Blue , & more - in order to find the best deals for flights, car rentals, and hotels.  It then links you into those sites to make the purchase. Priceline Priceline allows you to name your price for flights, lodging, cars (cruises, package vacations), but the catch is that you have to accept what they find.  They find marvelous deals...as well as not so convenient ones. Student Travel (a.k.a., really cheap) Student Universe Student Universe is run by Orbitz .  It offers links to student fares and less expensive travel resources - hostels, rail travel, etc. - that are not included on most travel sites. Ivy Media Ivy Media links to bus services that are far cheaper than air, rail, or even Greyhound , but locations are very limited.  Round trip between NY and DC, only $35 for a 4 - 4 1/2 hour trip.