For the latest up to date information see the American State Department Travel page or visit the British Foriegn and Commonwealth Office Travel Pages

If you are travelling on a passport other than an American one you may need to double check the countries that will accept you without a visa. Do not assume that the same rules apply to you.

If you are planning a trip remember that there are guide books in the Student Affairs Office that you can check out over the week.

If you are past the planning stage and just need to ring around to get some prices, remember that all the student travel agents you could ever need are in the student handbook; Visas, Embassies, Eurostar and even the airports are covered.

And don't forget the cheap airfares
offered by:
http://www.lastminute.com and http://www.holidaydeals.com. If you log on at the right time, you can grab a week's diving holiday in Egypt flying from London for $495 with everything included.

For cheap flights from the U.K., the following internet sites offer direct on-line bookings on their web sites:
http://www.europebyair.com Pre- Paid flight voucher scheme that allows you to fly from point to point in Europe for $99.00 a hop
http://www.easyjet.com The mainstay of cheap flight options
http://www.ryanair.com The originator of the £20.00 London to Genoa deal
http://www.openjet.com New but with good deals
http://www.cheapflights.co.uk Good for cheap charters
http://www.ebookers.com Some great deals to be found but you'll have to search

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First a Bit of Advice from Student Affairs
All right, now I know that quite a few of you will be planning your mid term trips or your end of term trips over the next couple of weeks. My advice, not that you’ve asked for it, is that you treat this trip hopefully as you’d treat any other and plan carefully. After you’ve read through the advice below and a few guidebooks and sorted out your easier problems, if you’re still stuck pop in - we're not travel agents but we may be able to help.

First off you’re going to need a good guide book and read it, or at least the chapter that concerns you. Perhaps the best guides for city breaks are Time Out and Rough Guide series, two or three hundred pages devoted to one city and the surrounding area should see even the most adventurous of you right. The Rough Guide series covers the greater number of cities and areas though both books cost as little as £10, which can work out to be very little if you divide the cost between you. For those of you who want the Minimum Culture Maximum Bars (MCMB) experience, and you know who you are, the Time Out guides have the best balance and often a great potted historical guide - in case your parents ask.

If you are planning to wander across a couple of countries either now or at the end of the programme I would recommend without hesitation the Lonely Planet Guides. The Western Europe edition is not cheap at £15.99 it would make a great buy if you were travelling after the programme. If you are planning a mini Eurail trip, two essentials for you are Europe by Train but just as important The Thomas Cooke European Rail Guide. All the train and ferry timetables and connections for the whole of Europe are crammed in here it is great for planning routesas well as timing journeys. If you were to take a copy with you it can save you the panic of finding alternate routes if you have a sudden change of plans. A reference copy is available in the Student Affairs Office. The online version of this timetable is very useful too, this is the Rail Europe site. Excellent for point to point plans, a query will give you the time and distance toIf you are too broke or too cheap to buy a guidebook there are copies you can borrow for one week at a time from the Student Affairs Office.

If you are planning to go a little further afield than dull old Europe you will have to bear Visas, injections and possibly revolutions in mind. The first two can be sorted out by a visit to Trailfinders on Kensington High Street as they have both a visa and inoculation centre, where for a price, you can arrange for some one to do all the running around necessary to get one or more visas from the appropriate embassy and do all the sitting around necessary while a nurse arranges for and then administers injections in your nether regions for the nether regions. While we are on the subject of nether regions particularly, but not exclusively the MCMB crowd, should remember to take an adequate supply of condoms with you or you may be faced with an entirely different visit to the nurse at a later date).