Australia-New Zealand

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.
AVOID RYAN AIR – The price seems low at first but after you pay all the additional costs (including costs to check in) the price is more expensive than other airlines. Bad service, bad customer support. The worst airline we have ever experienced.
AirOne – has taken over all Alitalia flights. This is a very good low cost airline
Air New Zealand – good flights to and from New Zealand
Jetstar Airlines – Low cost Flights to and from Honolulu to Australia, New Zealand,Bali and Singapore
Virgin Australia Airlines
Quantas Airlines
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.
AutoEurope – They are easy to work with and they offer a best price guarantee. If you book early you’ll get a better price.
Argus Car hire – auto rentals will give ou good prices on car rental in most places around the world.

Train Travel Australia
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.

VRBO is the motherlode of apartment rentals all over the world
Home Away is another good site (the parent company to VRBO)
Discover Holiday Homes – Italian Lakes, France, Greece, Cyprus, UK, USA and a few others
AirBnb – rooms and apartments worldwide

HRS – Hotel Reservation Service is a great site for discounts on all classes of hotels and resorts
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