this is the travel channel of aol.com website, which is one of the bigest and most popuplar website in the USA and is well-known around the world.

Travel.aol is well-know for its Travel Guides, an online resource that provides information on more than 1900 national and international locations and over 100,000 hotels.On the new initiative, travel.aol.com, the company shared that the Travel Guides include destination information -- restaurants, bars, sights, activities and events, as well as hotel listings, with links to book directly from the site. In addition, the guides automatically plot these locations on a map using industry-leading technology and features from MapQuest.

They also pick up travel deals like cruise deals, disney deals, honeymoon deals and international deals for you. And there is a quick guide button for Weekend Getaways, Beach Vacations, and National Cherry Blossom Festival. You can search flights that you want, and they also offer Today’s Hot Flight Deals, where you can find the most favorable airfare. You can find destination here in almost every part of the world, and they also recommand some amazing destinations for you reference.


What I likes about
All deals offered are sorted clearly so that you can find what you really want. They also pick up Hot 5 Deals and Discount Travel for you, which are the latest travel deals, new travel deals are added often letting you compare and save by shopping the travel deal price agaist the regular price. These “hot 5 Deals and Discount Travel” are combed and scoured from web and limited to date. They also offer today’s hot deals on flight, hotels, cars, cruises and vacations. These “dead line” deals are really valuable for those who just need certain deal.

You can find travel guides according to destination. Select a country or a city, and you can see many famous places of interest recommanded. AOL Travel Guides give users the opportunity to expertly plan their vacations, based on ratings and reviews from other travelers, and share their own findings with their worldwide online audience. By combining user-generated and editorial content, MapQuest technology and local search results, users can access to an interactive travel site where they can help shape content.

By signing up, You can get weakly and monthly newsletters for the hottest deals and insider specials on airfare, hotels, vacations, and cruises.  

In addition, you can find others’ blogs about their travelling experiences, which helps you to get more information and tips perhaps, about your destination.


What I dislikes about
Many recommanded deals are connected links to sponser’s website, sometimes I cannot open the links as they are blocked as ads. Content on the site is also not very sufficient, it’s more popular in the USA than in other countries.

Overall

The travel.aol.com site is aiming to ensure you plan the ultimate vacation gateway with cheap airline tickets, low rates on hotels, deals on car rentals and discount cruise with AOL Travel. It is a powerful web site and one of the most popular travel web site in the USA, the web site company cooperate with many other web sites to provider more deals for cumstomers.