Get weekly updates of where your favourite or preferred travel website or travel agency stands in overall comparative ratings of UK’s most active travel websites.

Besides the ratings of the best performing travel-related sites, you can also have a glimpse of the top destinations, top airlines and interestingly, even the top travel search terms.

How will this help, you may ask. The summer holidays are not far away, and these rankings will help you get the best deals and bargains when you make your travel plans.

Look up all these ratings at UK Site Data

Agencies (as listed in the same source), as of week ending 14 May 2011

Get to know all about London from some informative official sites. Whether you want updates on the weather and the traffic, or events in your beloved city, keep a tab on all the happenings around.

Keep in touch with those who run London in Greater London Authority, Mayor Of London and London Assembly as well as from Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London

For weather and traffic updates, one of the sources is of course the BBC – see BBC’s travel pages on London

This BBC-commended car hire site has made it convenient for you to search and choose the right car by listing all the cars from all major suppliers – as many as 50 car hire companies. They have included a feature by which the search service will show you the cheapest price and help you compare each car easily, without having to look at and apply to each car company. The service has bagged them the “Best car hire website” award from among the Travolution Awards 2008.
In the search box here, make sure you choose a convenient pickup point. Then relax while your desired results come up.

While you sit back and scout for the right car at the right price, you might want to check out the mini-guides to destinations – information that is useful, concise and crisp. Read many more guides like the mini-guide to Leeds

What’s special that this site offers?

Among several choices, the site offers at least a couple of tried, tested and trademarked offerings – the ‘Top 20‘ deals, and ‘Local Deals’. With over 200 ‘deal experts’ from around the world scouting for the right kind of deals that customers want, TravelZoo has been able to offer the best to more than 20 million customers who subscribe to these services. The deals are sourced from 2000 travel companies all over the world.

Since the deal experts have the task of verifying the value, accuracy and availability of deals, you can be sure that what you get is ‘smart’ information. Further the site promises independent reviews and recommendations on deals that they test book through a trademarked test booking centre.

Remember that this is a travel site review, and not a recommendation. We invite you to share your bouquets and brickbats, though.

One of the leading providers of consumer-direct travel services for both holiday makers as well as corporate, on-the-job travelers is Tavelocity.co.uk. You will be able to find plenty of travel-related products and services and also access deals, pricing information about airlines, hotels, car rental companies, cruise lines, vacation and last-minute travel packages, and ever more travel-related services.

Business travelers could try out Travelocity Business for all corporate travel solutions. As a leader in online travel continent-wide in Europe, the services are available though its European brands, lastminute.com as well as a number of other popular names like 1ski, a2btravel.com, all-hotels.com, Arte Udland, bargainholidays.com, Box Office, deckchair.com, exhilaration, ferrybooker.com, First Option, flight4less, Gemstone Travel Limited, Globepost Travel Services, holidayautos, holidayhotels, holidaysandmore, ifyouski.com, medhotels.com, Odysia, onlinetravel.com, Resfeber, travel4less, travelbargains, Ticket Service, Travelocity, Travelprice, travelselect.com, and travelstore.com.

Please note – this is just a review for your information, not a recommendation.

Check out Expedia’s Hilton Hotel promotions: Hilton Hotels -Any Weekend, Anywhere Sale!

Booking Dates: 6th December 2010 – January 31st 2011, for travel dates: 17th December 2010 – 31st December 2011!

Promo Details:

• For Weekend travel receive up to 50% discount.
• Thursday/Friday/Saturday for Middle East and Egypt (allow Wednesday arrival with 2 night minimum stay)
• Friday/Saturday/Sunday for all other regions (allow Thursday arrivals with 2 night minimum stay)
• Breakfast included
• No changes/no cancellations
• Advance purchase : 7 days

A free Orbitz app for iPhone and Android mobile devices is just one of the features offered by Orbitz.com. The travel site lets you have a look at the top five destinations, hotels and holiday interests, so you know which are the popular tourist preferences. When you make bookings through this portal, you can be confident of getting a price assurance, hotel total price upfront, no change or cancellation fees on hotel bookings, no booking fees on single-carrier flights, and discounted package rates.

Another option you may not want to miss is the ‘Deal Detector’, where you can set a price for your travel need, and the site will send out an alert to you as soon as they find a match. And if you need to make corporate bookings, check out their exclusive website Orbitz for Business.

Please note – this is just a review for your information, not a recommendation.

‘Keep it straight and simple’ is probably the best mantra for any travel website. We tried out Kayak.com – “Search One and Done”. The search options are simple enough whether you are looking for hotels, cars, flights, deals, vacations or cruises. After just a click you get results that you can easily sift and filter to arrive at the right decision. Once you get past the simple stuff, the KAYAK travel search site offers plenty more easy links to plan your trips, get mobile apps, research, avail price comparison tools.

Please note – this is just a review for your information, not a recommendation.

Over the next few months we will be reviewing the websites of the major airlines (and some of the better small airlines). We’ll be seeing how easy to use they are, how well the communicate with travellers and if the airlines really deliver a great user experience for their customers. We’d be delighted to have your input and thoughts on the airline websites that we review.

Do you let the travel-bug bite you often? Even if not – and more so if you do – you are bound to be constantly on the lookout for deals, greater savings, better travel bargains, optimised packages and more.  Bookmark this site to make your travel search easier, quicker and hassle free.

For starters you might want to get familiar with BBC’s review of 10 best new travel apps, including a real-time currency converter and a world-wide Wi-Fi finder.