The Times: 50 best travel websites of 2007

1. Trustedplaces.com - A site that learns your tastes and recommends hotels and restaurants - read the review

2. TripAdvisor Traveller Network - The hotel review site dabbles with social networking. Ginny McGrath is impressed - read the review

3. Iloho.com - A travel community website that's launching airline reviews - read the review

4. Mylifeoftravel.com - Another networking site in travel but one that shows big promise. And it's UK-based too

5. Bringsome.com - Exotic tastes and homesick cravings are catered for with this community 'shop and swap' site - read the review

6. Realtravel.com - If you like to meticulously plan and record your journeys, this is an attractive and free place to do it

7. Wayn.com - The world’s biggest travel community, with more than 8m members, this was its big year to date

MORE MULTIMEDIA

8. Talkshoe.com - If you've got the time to sift through the garbage, there's some gems among these travel podcasts - read the review

9. Travelistic.com - A site dedicated to hosting travel videos is a good place to start your trip planning - read the review

10. Foulerton.com - A minnow in the travel blogosphere, but a good example of how it should be done - read the review

11. Cruisebruise.com - Misadventures on the high seas with this alternative cruising website - read the review

12. Travolution.blogspot.com - the most useful list of travel-related blogs around?

PLANNING TRAVEL

13. Tripit.com - Pedantic travel planners will love this site, which customises a travel itinerary and has some useful tools - read the review

14. Yapta.com - A great tool for travel bargain hunters, although a bit too much of a US bias - read the review

15. Kayak.co.uk - A general travel but natty US site that has launched here - with a new hotel review facility - read the review

16. Door2tour.com - An unglamorous subject, but this is a flashy website selling coach trips - read the review

17. Foundem.com - The latest contender to be the Holy Grail of flight websites is put through its paces - read the review

18. Welove2ski.com - A new kid on the wintersports scene this winter, but we know the Ed and he knows his snow

19. Whydontyou.com - An elite travel agency has launched a holidays website for the non-members - read the review

20. Blacktomato.co.uk - From nowhere to everyone's favourite top-breaks-with-ideas-and-style site

21. Ze-bus.com - A shocking pink website with a good dose of Gallic humour, which will appeal to backpackers and surfers in France - read the review

22. Travelsupermarket.co.uk - The goliath of travel added a new function, a B&B search - read the review

23. STATravelTools - A clock that counts down to your holiday is among the free widgets to add to your blog or desktop with this site - read the review

EXTRAS

24. Multimap.co.uk - Mark Frary praises the new look site, with new functions that are 'a leap forward' - read the review

25. Excess4carhire.com - A site that makes car hire charges more transparent can only be good news - read the review

26. Simplyparking.com - Another comparison site, and this one does what it says on the tin, comparing airport parking prices with reviews

27. Vroomvroomvroom.co.uk - good new site comparing car rental prices

28. TravelTurtle - A new travel health website that covers jabs, bugs and drugs - read the review

29. Tailoredtours.com - If you want to walk New York, this is the site - read the review

SLEEP AND SHOP

30. Itravelishop - An excellent shopping guide and hotel review site we use regularly

31. I-escape.com - One of the original style hotel sites goes from strength to strength, adding an Argentina section this winter

32. First-floor.it - A minnow of a site about Italian B&Bs, but we're won over by its cute design and fun, informative chat - read the review

33. Gridskipper.com - an excellent urban travel site. Probably the best city style guide on the web

34. Gayfriendlyrooms.com - There's a few teething troubles with this young site, but the idea is sound - read the review

35. Haystack.lonelyplanet.com - Ginny McGrath finds some help with that eternal search for the right hotel - read the review

36. Hostelz.com - Views of your fellow travellers of hostels on this handy, simple and effective site. Very useful

37. YHA.org.uk - A new site in 2007 for this hugely growing sector of travel, youth hostels

38. BabyFriendlyBoltholes- There are other family travel advice sites but this was the freshest and most useful to emerge in 2007

39. Walesinstyle.com - A slick and intuitive site which has everything to plan a chic weekend break in Wales - read the review

FUN

40. About.com/travel - Ginny McGrath recommends an encyclopedic site that's highly addictive - read the review

41. Coolhunter.com - Eye candy, great fun, stunning images - recent features have been on a Swiss ski chalet and best outdoor hotel pools

42. Google Maps - A new feature offers street level views of US cities and is causing a stir among bloggers - read the review

43. Planyourinvasion.co.uk- An attractive design, and a site that backs up style with substance - read the review

44. Heritagepubs.org.uk - A passionate listing of the country's finest historic pubs - read the review

45. Passportstamp.com - A bit of fun, but be warned, this site can get very competitive - read the review

AND 5 SITES TO WATCH IN 2008

46. WorldReviewer.com - Another social networking site in travel which claims it will have 100 experts. Promising start

47. CruiseCritic.co.uk - The US-site site has spun off a British version and is looking for an editor. Bright prospects

48. Travelmag.co.uk - There will be a host of travel writing sites launching in 2008. This, from Jack Barker, is one of them

49. Travelintelligence.net - The travel writing, hotel review and booking site has a new editor and is about to get a huge facelift

50. Gowander.com - Just launched: a new social networking site from one of the best independent travel magazines in the UK