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Travel Guides

• 2du.com - Houston Events Guide - Houston events guide with local music, local sports events, tourist attractions, links to local clubs and organizations, local radio stations, and local venues. Self entry event promotion features.
• A Guide to Houston - Find information on restaurants, attractions, events, conventions, meetings, arts, entertainment and sports.
• Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau - Offers information for visitors and convention planners including travel guide, details of services offered, member directory, press kits and news releases, and printable coupons.
• GuestLife: Houston - Visitor information on attractions, restaurants, dining, shopping, entertainment, and the arts throughout the region.
• Guide to Houston Lodging - From the Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau. Sorted by particular areas of the region.
• Houston Beat - A complete guide for the greater Houston and surrounding areas for dining, clubs and bars around town.
• Houston Lodging Directory - Text listing of lodging in the area with phone numbers and addresses.
• Rice Village Online - Offers shopping and dining directory, maps, and a photo tour.
• The Houstonian - Contains Houston pictures, current news, main attractions, city history, and live images.

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Bed & Breakfasts

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• Hidden Oaks Bed & Breakfast - Lodging in a large plantation-style home on 1-1/2 acres, offering four guest rooms with private baths, 10 minutes from downtown Houston. Provides services and room information.
• Robin's Nest Bed and Breakfast Inn - Robin's Nest stands between downtown Houston and the Texas Medical Center. It resembles a small, European first-class hotel wed to the ambience of an, American bed and breakfast inn.
• Sara's Bed and Breakfast Inn - Welcome to old-time hospitality, in the heart of Houston. Standing proudly facing Heights Boulevard like a turn of the century lady, Sara's is the epitome of Victorian elegance.
• The Lovett Inn - Nestled in the heart of the Montrose-Museum District, the historic Inn offers distinctive lodging and catering accommodations.
• The Patrician Inn - Located near downtown Houston and in the museum district, is a large Three story mansion built in 1919. This Colonial Revival style home was originally owned by a prominent Houston attorney.

Homestays

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• Homestay Houston - Provides housing with American families for students or business people. Offers home and family photos, and application download.

Hotels

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• Alden Hotel - Luxury boutique hotel in downtown Houston. Includes amenities, location, and reservations.
• AmeriSuites Houston Intercontinental Airport - Features location, area information, amenities, and reservations.
• Astro Inn - Provides room, rates, amenities information as well as online reservations.
• Baymont Inn Hobby Airport - Features amenities, directions, and reservations.
• Candlewood Suites Galleria - Includes location, amenities, reservations, and area information.
• Choice Hotels Houston Area - Links to area Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Rodeway Inn, Clarion, Econo Lodge, Sleep Inn, and Quality Inn properties.
• Comfort Suites-Westchase - West Houston. Photos, descriptions of amenities, and reservations.
• Courtyard by Marriott Houston Downtown - Features reservations, directions, amenities, and area information.
• Courtyard by Marriott Houston Near The Galleria - Features 209 guest rooms, restaurant and bar, meeting rooms and fitness facilities.
• Crowne Plaza Houston - Brookhollow - Brookhollow district hotel. Provides reservations and a description of accommodations, facilities, and a list of surrounding attractions.
• Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel Houston - Located by the Galleria. Features directions, area information, reservations, and amenities.
• Doubletree Hotel Houston Downtown - Includes amenities, reservations, location, and area information.
• Drury Hotels - Metro locations, amenities, and reservations.
• Embassy Suites Hotel Houston - Located near the Galleria. Features reservations, location, and amenities.
• Four Seasons Hotel - Locate in downtown Houston. Features virtual tour, amenities, reservations, and location.
• Hilton Americas - Connects by skywalks to the George Brown Convention center downtown. Includes reservations, location, area attractions, and amenities.
• Hilton Garden Inn Bush Intercontinental Airport - Includes location, amenities, area information, and reservations.
• Hilton Garden Inn Houston Northwest - Includes directions, reservations, and amenities.
• Hilton Houston Hobby Airport - Features reservations, amenities, map, and facilities.
• Hilton Houston Plaza - Located next to the Texas Medical Center. Includes amenities, reservations, facilities, and a map.
• Hilton Houston Southwest - Features maps, reservations, amenities, and facilities.
• Hilton Houston Westchase and Towers - Located in West Houston. Includes facilities, maps, reservations, and amenities.
• Hilton University of Houston - Includes amenities, maps, facilities, and reservations.
• Holiday Inn and Suites Medical Center Houston - Features 284 guest rooms, restaurant and bar, meeting facilities and a fitness center. Reservations, directions, and Houston attractions.
• Holiday Inn Express Downtown - Features reservations, map, and amenities.
• Holiday Inn Houston - Intercontinental Airport - Features 415 guest rooms, restaurants, meeting rooms and recreation facilities.
• Holiday Inn Houston Hotels - Directory of area hotels owned by the chain.
• Holiday Inn Select Houston Greenway Plaza - Features 358 guest rooms, restaurant, meeting facilities and a conference center.
• Homewood Suites Willowbrook Mall - Features area information, location, reservations, and amenities.
• Hotel Derek - 314 room hotel on West Loop South. Offers overview, room descriptions, and reservations.
• Hotel Icon - Luxury hotel and day spa located in downtown Houston. Site includes online reservations, amenities description, and location information.
• Houston Airport Marriott - Provides underground train service to the George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Features reservations, amenities, and a map.
• Houston Hotels - Directory of Marriott Hotel brands in Houston and Galveston areas. Lists travel packeages and includes photo tours and online reservations.
• Houston ICH Hotels - Directory of area lodging from Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites, Candlewood Suites, and Intercontinental Hotels.
• Houston Marriott Medical Center - Located by the Texas Medical Center. Includes map, amenities, reservations, and nearby attractions.
• Houston Marriott West Loop by the Galleria - Features reservations, amenities, map, and facilities.
• Hyatt Regency Houston - A hotel in the center of downtown, near the George R. Brown Convention Center, Theater District and Bayou Place entertainment complex with complimentary shuttle to The Galleria shopping mall.
• Hyatt Regency Houston Airport - A hotel located at the World Houston Business Development, a magnificent wooded complex 5 minutes from Houston's George Bush International Airport with access to freeways leading to the downtown.
• Inn at the Ballpark - Located downtown across the street from Minute Maid Park. Includes amenities, reservations, and directions.
• Inter-Continental Houston - Located in the Galleria area. Features hotel information and photo tour.
• J. W. Marriott Hotel - Houston - Includes maps, amenities, services, reservations, and local information.
• Marriott Houston Hobby - Includes information on packages and promotions, accommodations, and online reservation.
• Omni Houston Hotel - AAA Five-Diamond hotel centrally located in the prestigious Post Oak/Galleria area.
• Omni Houston Hotel at Westside - Luxury hotel located in the exclusive energy corridor. Features an atrium lobby with lakes, waterfalls and tropical fish.
• Residence Inn Houston Downtown - Includes driving directions, reservations, amenities, and area information.
• Residence Inn Houston Intercontinental Airport at Greenspoint - Features directions, amenities, and reservations.
• Sheraton Suites Houston - Located near the Galleria. Features reservations, amenities, locations, and facilities.
• Shoney's Inn and Suites Houston Intercontinental - Includes reservations, amenities, and directions.
• Shoney's Inn and Suites Houston West - Includes directions, reservations, and amenities.
• Sofitel Houston - Located in North Houston. Includes directions, reservations, amenities, and area information.
• St Regis Hotel Houston - Luxury hotel near the Galleria. Features reservations, area information, amenities, and location.
• The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa - 277 luxurious guestrooms and nine suites, as well as complimentary access to the nation's only health and fitness country club. Located near the Galleria in the heart of Houston, Texas.
• The Lancaster Hotel - Small luxury hotel located in downtown Houston. Features amenities, map, reservations, and local attractions.
• The Magnolia - Upscale downtown location near Minute Maid Park.
• The Renaissance Houston Hotel - Features map, amenities, area attractions, facilities, and reservations.
• The Westin Oaks - Located in uptown near the Galleria. Includes area information, directions, amenities, and reservations.
• Westin Galleria Houston - Features reservations, location, area information, and directions.
• Wingate Inn Bush Intercontinental Airport - Features location, amenities, and reservations.
• Wyndham Greenspoint - Features a restaurant, bar and meeting facilities.

Motels

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• Best Western Downtown Houston - Offers property information, photo gallery, directions and online reservations.
• Comfort Inn Brookhollow - Information on facilities, location, and services.
• Comfort Inn Downtown - Includes reservations, map, amenitities, and area information.
• Days Inn Houston FM 1960 - North of town, convenient to the Bush Intercontinental Airport. Rates, pictures, map, and contact information.
• Days Inn Houston Medical Center - Located two miles from downtown, and has easy access to Highway 59, Rice University, Texas Women's University, the Rice Village, Astrodome and Astroworld, and the medical center. Rates, map, pictures, description of recent renovations, and contact details.
• Econo Lodge Medical Center - Features map, reservations, and area information.
• Fairfield Inn Houston Galleria - Located close to the Galleria Mall. Features 107 guest rooms, restaurant and meeting facilities.
• Fairfield Inn Houston I-10 East - Located with easy access to Compaq Center and Galleria Mall. Features 160 guest rooms, restaurant and meeting facilities.
• Hampton Inn Houston-Hobby Airport - Features area information, reservations, location, and area information.
• Hampton Inn Houston-Intercontinental Airport - Includes location, amenities, area information, and reservations.
• Houston Days Inn - 164 room facility offers amenities such as suites, cable television, and continental breakfast. Provides location map and rate information.
• Howard Johnson Express Houston Downtown - Features local attractions, reservations, directions, and amenities.
• La Quinta Inn and Suites Houston Directory - Locations in and around the area.
• La Quinta Inn and Suites Houston Galleria - Includes driving directions, reservations, and amenities.
• Motel 6 Houston Medical Center - Includes directions and reservations.
• Quality Inn Hobby Airport - Features directions, reservations, amenities, and area information.
• Red Roof Inn Houston Hobby Airport - Features map, amenities, and reservations.
• Rodeway Inn and Suites Medical Center - Includes amenities, map, reservations, and area information.
• Scottish Inns and Suites Houston - Features virtual tour, location, and reservation information.
• Sleep Inn Bush Intercontinental Airport - Includes map, reservations, area information, and amenities.
• Super 8 Motel Hobby Airport - Features amenities, directions, and reservations.

Attractions

• Alkek Velodrome - Bicycle track that hosts races and other events. Contains track information, race schedules and results, program, and calendar.
• Armand Bayou Nature Center - A 2,500 acre nature preserve in southeast Houston, providing many education opportunities for both children and adults.
• Downtown Aquarium - Houston. Includes photos and descriptions of exhibits, educational programs, restaurant information, and game and ride overview.
• Downtown Houston Tunnel System - Offers information and history.
• Forbidden Gardens - Outdoor museum replicating some of China’s major archaeological sites, such as the buried terracotta army of emperor Quin and the Forbidden City of Beijing.
• Gulf Greyhound - Dog track provides racing information, schedules, results, history, and a betting guide.
• Houston Raceway Park - Motorsports facilities with a schedule that showcases all the top stars and cars in the world of championship drag racing.
• Houston Zoo - Features information and pictures on the different animals as well as zoo hours, facility map, classes and programs, and volunteer opportunities. [English and Spanish]
• Johnson Space Center - Offers information on the center for kids, educators, as well as maps and history.
• Jones Plaza - A one block square in downtown Houston surrounded by 2 major theaters and the bayou place, an entertainment complex. Includes information about events and location.
• PHOBIA - Haunted house with four attractions, using high-tech horror effects. Includes operating hours, job opportunities, map, and coupons.
• Port of Houston and Ship Channel Boat Tour - Information about the 90 minute boat tour of the port of Houston and its famous Ship Channel includes schedule and directions.
• River Oaks Garden Club - Eight formal gardens situated on 14 acres along Buffalo Bayou. Offers information on the Azalea Trail, Pink Elephant Sale, and other events during the year.
• Sam Houston Race Park - Features live thoroughbred and quarter horse racing approximately 150 days a year.
• ScreamWorld - Admission price includes 3 haunted houses, The Haunted Hotel, The Edge of Darkness, and Screams in 3D plus the Chamber of Horror.
• Sesquicentennial Park, Jones Plaza, Fish Plaza - Provides general information on the three area attractions in the Theatre District.
• Space Center Houston - Official Visitors Center of NASA's Johnson Space Center
• Splashtown Houston - Water park offers exciting water activities for the entire family. Provides directions, information on shows and events, park news, employment opportunities, and prices.
• The Hobby Center - Performance arts venue located in the Theatre District. Offers construction information, news, fact sheets, and map to location.
• Toyota Center - Sports and entertainment arena offering facility and ticket information, event schedule, guest policies, maps and directions, and seating charts.
• Wortham Center - Facility is home of the Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera and is located in the Theatre District. Offers general information including phone numbers, maps and directions, parking information, fun facts, and visitor services as well as an online box office and event schedule.

Bus Lines

• Greyhound Bus Line - Fares, schedules, and ticketing for more than 3700 destinations across North America.

Dining Guides

• B4-U-Eat - Post and read area restaurant reviews. Search for restaurants by name, zip code, or type of food.
• ChefMoz: Houston - Directory of restaurants. Invites restaurant submissions and reviews.
• Clear Lake Dining.com - Internet dining guide for the Clear Lake City/Bay Area of Houston.
• Guy's Gallery - Features listings of night clubs in Houston Texas.
• Houston Press: Dining - Offers a selection of favorable reviews of Houston-area restaurants.
• Houston Restaurants Online - Offers restaurant listings and reviews.
• Houston Restaurants Reviewed - Review of Houston area restaurants from coffee shops to seafood.
• Houston Venue Guide - Houston's first complete unbiased event facilities guide. Search for over 335 venues by name, zip code, price or capacity. Membership required to gain access to information.
• My Table Magazine - Offers an extensive guide to dining in Houston area restaurants. This site lists locations, descriptions, and recipes.
• The Delicious Life - Restaurant features and reviews, member ratings and news.

Festivals & Events

• Bayou City Art Festival - Celebration of art, music, food, and art education. Includes a list of featured artists, news, admission information, and a list of non-profit partners.
• Delta H Con - Annual Gamer's and Anime convention in Houston Texas.
• Frontier Fiesta - Showcase for the talents of the University of Houston student body set in an authentic western town called "Fiesta City".
• Houston Auto Show - Yearly car show at the Houston Reliant Hall.
• Houston Festa Italiana - Festival features the music, food and culture of Italy and Sicily.
• Houston Greek Festival - Annual weekend ethnic festival. Offers event information and slideshow.
• Houston Hot Sauce Festival - Annual event offers a wide variety of food, stage entertainment, children's activities, and contests. Offers sponsor and exhibitor's information, previous festival highlights, and vendor list.
• Houston International Festival - Annual international festival featuring juried arts, crafts, food, music, games and events for adults and children.
• Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo - Annual event in Houston each Spring. Events calendar, ticket information, online magazine, and FAQs.
• Houston Women's Festival - Music, art and a marketplace of vendors. Includes activies such as wine tasting and concerts.
• Oni-Con - Annual anime convention. Events, guests, artwork, and message board.
• Shell Houston Open - Promoted by the Houston Golf Association for the benefit of local charities.
• Thanksgiving Day Parade - One of the largest annual parades of the city of Houston.
• Uptown Holiday Lighting - Annual Thanksgiving evening event, in which the lights of the popular uptown district are lighted, includes fireworks and a parade.
• Wings Over Houston Airshow - Offers ticket information, attractions, schedule, and merchandise.
• Worldfest - Houston - International film festival. Offers photos, links, and event information.

Golf Courses & Clubs

• Golf Houston Magazine - Electronic golf magazine with information on Houston area equipment sales, courses, and tournaments.
• Memorial Park Golf Course - 600-acre course with a lighted driving range, putting and chipping greens, clubhouse facility, and a golf museum.

Limousines & Shuttles

• Advantage Limousine Services, Inc. - Provides rental of luxury sedans, limousines, limo buses and SUVs. Service information and online coupons.
• Aim Limousine - Offers limousine, SUV, shuttle bus, and town car transportation services.
• Corporate Limousines of Texas - Provides limousine rentals and airport transportation services.
• Elite Limousines of Houston - Featuring sedans, stretch limos and SUV's.
• Houston Executive Limousines - Provides company, services, fleet, and contact information, as well as reservations.
• Houston Limousine Network - Limousines with professional uniformed chauffeurs trained to attend to comfort and security of the clients.
• Kamel Limo Service - Offers limousine transportation services.
• Onyx Limousine Service. - Provides sedans, limousines and limo buses.
• Signature Towne Car & Limousine - Provides limousine and airport transportation services.
• Space Town Limousine - Offers limousine, sedan, and bus rentals.

Museums

• 1940 Air Terminal Project - Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society project which will restore the long-vacant 1940's era Houston Municipal Airport Terminal as a civil aviation museum. Includes information on the history of the building as well as plans for its restoration.
• Blaffer Gallery - The art museum of the University of Houston.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum - Preserves, promotes and perpetuates the history, tradition and contributions of the Buffalo Soldiers toward the development and defense of the United States of America. Provides history and photo gallery.
• Burton Cotton Gin and Museum - Interprets life in an historic Texas cotton town. Includes information about upcoming events.
• Contemporary Arts Museum - Free admission. Site includes hours, museum history, information concerning programs and exhibits
• Holocaust Museum Houston - The permanent exhibit is entitled Bearing Witness: A Community Remembers. Exhibitions, calendar of events, membership and departmental details, education materials, and bookstore.
• Houston Fire Museum - Features the history of firefighting from bucket brigades to modern technology. Exhibits include antique fire engines, tools, uniforms, and helmets.
• Houston Museum of Natural Science - Virtual tour of the most popular museum in Texas, including the butterfly center and observatory.
• Lawndale Art Center - Dedicated to the presentation of contemporary art with an emphasis on Houston artists.
• Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston - Provides the public with art related programs, services, and events. Describes various programs and community art projects.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Art of world cultures from antiquity to the present.
• Museum of Printing History - Offers an educational and fun history of civilization. Provides location information, schedule of exhibitions and events, and tour.
• National Museum of Funeral History - A museum of 19th and 20th century funerary history in the United States. Offers online collections, membership information, and gift shop.
• The Children's Museum of Houston - Children's museum and library. Feature exhibit information, activities, membership, and volunteer opportunities.
• The Heritage Society - Museum located in Sam Houston Park. Offers community, exhibit, and visit planning information.
• The Heritage Society: Sam Houston Park - Outdoor museum near downtown Houston. Features park information.
• The Menil Collection - Opened in 1987 to preserve and exhibit the art collection of John and Dominique de Menil, considered one of the most important privately assembled collections of the twentieth century.

Railways

• Amtrak - Official site for Amtrak passenger trains featuring online reservations, ticket fare finder, trip planning resources, and the Amtrak Guest Rewards program.

Taxi Services

• Yellow Cab Houston - Computerized dispatch taxicabs with areawide service. Includes employment information, online reservations and fare estimator.

Tour Operators

• A Taste of Heaven - Offers Cessna aircraft tours of Houston. Provides trip information and FAQ.

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