Thailand

Which Budget.com – Good good search engine for great prices
BravoFly is good search engine for great prices; mostly on inter-European travel
Easy Jet is a low cost airline in Europe; comfortable and very inexpensive if you buy in advance
Cheapo Air offers the same flight on the major carriers but for less money
Star Alliance offers a really good and relatively inexpensive around the world fare. It’s a secret they don’ like to advertise.
Cathay Pacific Airlines is a Oneworld Alliance partner
JetStar – low cost flights from Honolulu Hawaii to many places in Asia. If you are traveling from Australia to from Asian Countries use the Jetstar Australia Site
Fly China – Find the best price from multiple airlines to China and many other Asian destinations
FlyAsia.com – Flights from the US to many places in Asia on major airlines. Good prices but you’ll have to call the airlines for upgrades
Air Asia – low cost flights throughout Asian Countries and Australia
Spring Airlines – Flights within China
Seat Guru – type in your airline and flight number and they will tell you the flight configuration. Great site for choosing your seats

Tiger Car Rental offers very good car rental rates in Europe using major carriers like get a new car Budget and Avis. Pay in advance.
Argus Car hire – auto rentals will give ou good prices on car rental in most places around the world.

Thailand by train
The Rail Dude – This is a small German company that does a great job in train travel throughout Europe
The Man in seat 61 – Mark Smith has traveled around the world by train and boat and keeps a really good and informative blog. If you’re into train travel, you’ve got to look at this site.

HRS – Hotel Reservation Service is a great site for discounts on all classes of hotels and resorts
Thailand Hotels.net is a good site to browse for available hotels
Four Seasons Hotel -$$$-$$$$. This is the standard of a fine Hotel chain
Tablet Hotels – $$$ A very good collection of interesting hotels in many destinations
Luxique.com – $$-$$$$ has a good selection of small beautiful hotels all over the world
Chic Retreats – really great selection of small upscale boutique hotels
Relais & Chateaux – $$-$$$$ Usually good for hotels and restaurants but they occasionally miss the mark
Design Hotels – $$$-$$$$ Progressive and state of the art design hotels throughout the world
Great Small Hotels – $$-$$$ Boutique hotels around the world
Eurobookings – $-$$$ This Dutch run hotel booking agency offers very good prices at good hotels
Small Luxury Hotels – $$-$$$ Usually they have good choices but we’ve had some clunkers here as well
WorldBy.com – $-$$$ Mostly European hotels in Italy, France, England, Ireland, Spain, Amsterdam and more
Epoque Hotels – $$-$$$ Good small luxury hotel group
JDB – $$$ Fine hotels and resorts
JP Moser – $$$ Deluxe hotel group

Squaremouth.com has over 100 companies to choose from
Travel Insured. We like this one. They’ve been very easy to work with
WorldNomads.com Travel Insurance – a great organization and very reasonable rates

Cellhire International – phones, phone cards, sim rentals and mobile hotspot rentals
TEP Wireless rental – rates for one country or multiple countries for very good rates
Cellular Abroad – good rates for MiFi rentals for good rates per country. It’s been a bit difficult to have them configure the mobile hotspot for multiple countries
XCOM Global – mobile hotspots for around $15/day