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Frequently
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QUESTIONS
How to Use the
Highway Guide
How
do I access the lists of hotels frequently offering discounts?
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To view
a list of those hotels offering discounts near the Interstate highway of
interest:
1. On the 'home page', click "USA
Interstates Map"
(these
instructions can also be viewed on that page)
2. click on the Interstate highway number sign for the desired
Interstate highway.
3. On the page next displayed, click on desired state.
4. You will then be presented with a table of those cities having hotels
(frequently) offering discounts near the designated exits along the
selected Interstate in the selected state.
Note: To view an expanded menu of informative links, click on "view
Interstate description". In addition to the table of cities you will
also be shown any special (current) notes applicable to that Interstate
highway plus a list of links to other relevant maps and indexes
pertaining to that Interstate highway and the selected state. Many
viewers have told us that they find the 'strip maps' especially
informative.
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1. On the 'home page', click "Index
by Highway"
2. select and click the Interstate highway of interest
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To
find a hotel or motel near any of the Interstates:
1. click on the gold
sunburst ( )
at or near the location you may wish to stay.
2. pages describing hotels offering discounts, including rates and
amenities, will appear.
3. complete the form (travel dates are required as rates frequently
fluctuate day to day). You can then
view the information about each of the listed hotels and make your reservation if the amenities and rates satisfy you.
To find
(using the blue navigation bar near the bottom of every page in this
website) all those hotels frequently offering discounts in a given city:
1. click on the blue button labeled with the first letter of the desired
city.
2. you will be presented with an index of those cities having names
starting with the letter you selected.
NOTE: Many of these cities have maps in our database. If the city of
interest has a map, the word 'map' will be visible just to the right of
the city name. Click on the word 'map' to view the map of that city
(some of the maps include the surrounding area as well including nearby
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How
do I make a hotel reservation?
From
any map displaying the Interstate Highways:
- click on the
Internet Identity sign (
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of the desired highway
- Select the
'I-XX State Index' link near the top of the page (where XX is the
numeric identity of the Interstate you have chosen).
- After the
Index page for that Interstate loads, select the STATE from the list
near the top of the page.
- From the list
of cities which next appears, select the city of interest.
IF - the next page has a
headline that starts, "Discount Hotels near..."
- Review the list of
hotels and select one. You will then be presented with a brief
description of the property and a short list of amenities.
- When you find a hotel of
interest, fill in the check-in and check-out dates and other information
and click 'CHECK AVAILABILITY'
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in column 2)
IF - the next page has
three (3) numbered sections, the first requesting you to: "Select how you
would like to search for a hotel"
- Section 1 has been
completed for you
- In Section 2: Select
dates of travel.
Enter the dates for which you want the hotel room, number of adults to stay in the room, etc.
- In Section 3, you may select any other of the listed preferences
which will usually reduce the number of hotels presented for your
review..
- Now left click the 'SEARCH' button (below section 3).
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If at any time, you feel uncomfortable using the 'Internet approach' to making a reservation, you may telephone our 24/7 help desk: 1-888-254-0637 if in the USA or Canada - or
01-561-753-3993 if in any other country. PLEASE give the operator Promo Code
5142 to ensure you get the same discount as if you had made the reservation 'on-line'.
You will find these
telephone numbers near the bottom of every page. If you ever need
assistance, call us. We're here to help.
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How
do I contact a reservationist?
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If you would prefer to contact one of our reservationists to assist you in
making your reservation, you may telephone our 24/7 help desk:
1-888-254-0637 if in the USA or Canada - or 01-561-753-3993 if in any
other country. PLEASE give the operator Promo Code 5142 to ensure you get
the same discount as if you had made the reservation 'on-line'. |
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You will find these
telephone numbers near the bottom of every page. If you ever need
assistance, call us. We're here to help. |
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How
do I find other hotels in the general area of a hotel which is 'sold out'?
Sometimes
all the hotels listed under the city you have selected are sold out.
Special events and very popular destinations (such as popular beaches)
will frequently be sold out.
Or, there may well be
times when, in searching for a place to stay, you find a hotel in the
desired location but you desire amenities that hotel doesn't offer - or you
don't want to pay that much - or, for any reason, you really would like to
try other hotels that are located near the area of your search. For many
locations, we now have a way to do this.
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- On the page with
the actual hotel listings, on the bottom line of the listing of each hotel, is a
pair of links: the left most link reads: 'more hotels near this one'
- Just left click
on that item and the computer will look through the database for any
hotels in the same area and present them to you in a new window.
- This new listing
will have additional information to the right of the hotel address informing you
the search point distance of each hotel from the one from which this
list was generated. Please be advised that these distances are 'as the
bird flies' and not along a specific traffic pattern.
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How
do I review - or cancel -
a reservation I made previously?
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We use Pegasus,
Sabre, and other hotel room brokers. Each of these companies has a different
approach to making, reviewing and canceling on-line reservations. For
specific instructions for the page you are viewing, select 'Help' - the
right-most word of the top line of the navigation group near the top of that
page.
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If you made
your reservation using our Courtesy Help Desk, you must phone them to
correct or cancel that reservation. 1-888-254-0637 (toll-free) if in the USA
or Canada - or 1-972-894-1173 if in any other country. In all cases, the
promo code 5142 is necessary to help the reservationist find your
reservation. |
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Why
are the city names omitted from some of your maps?
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very important reasons:
First.
If you have seen our 'big map' you have seen how crowded it is with the
city names. If we were to attempt to insert the city names in the
regular Interstate maps (which are much smaller), the type size would
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Second.
The regular Interstate maps were designed to load as quickly as possible
for folks using a '56 Kbps' modem. This is why we mention that site
visitors fortunate enough to have high speed service (DSL, ISDN, cable,
etc.) can access our big map - which, for them, loads on seconds. (This
map is recommended for larger monitors.) |
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How
can I know what city is represented by one of the 'golden suns'?
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your mouse pointer on one of the golden suns ()
on any of our maps - and hold it there for a few seconds. The name of the
city will appear (in about 3 seconds). If you have a very old browser, this
function may not be supported. |
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If
your browser does not support this function, you can use our big map (Big
Map). Because this file is much larger, it will take longer to load
depending on your Internet connection. |
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Why
are so many cities missing from your maps?
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just isn't room. Therefore we have consulted statistics allowing us to
select those cities having the most 'room nights' for each state. |
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If
we still had too many - or certain cities are grouped too closely to
allow all of them to be included, we have made arbitrary selections. |
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Why
aren't all the 2-digit Interstate Highways pictured on your maps?
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just isn't room. There are so many, short, 2-digit Interstate highways
in the north central and north eastern states that the whole area would
be red if we were to include them.
Most of these short
Interstates are neat short cuts connecting only two or three cities,
but, to the people that use them regularly, they are very
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We
are concentrating on the long-distance routes - at least for now.
Perhaps, as computer technology gives us better and bigger monitors at
less cost (isn't this already happening?), we will be able to expand ALL
the maps for 17 inch monitors.
We may include some
of these other Interstates in the lists even if not on the maps. We'll
see. |
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Why
aren't text descriptions included for all the Interstate Highways you have
listed?
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are working very hard to complete them all. While every Interstate
highway portrayed on our maps has been traveled by at least one of our
staff members, they don't remember past travels well enough to write the
descriptions we want to make available to you. |
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We
are traveling these Interstate highways, again, taking copious notes, so
our editorial staff can write description which will be of more benefit
to you.
We welcome comments
from our site visitors
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Why
aren't all the cities having hotels or motels listed?
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only list cities having hotels offering discounted rates through the
major room brokers (e.g., Pegasus, Saber World Choice). These hotels
usually do not offer the discounted rates on a permanent basis so you
may get an error message telling you that a city is not available at
this time (this only happen with the smaller cities with only one or two
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Other
factors affecting the availability of discounts are seasonal popularity
and special, very popular, activities in the area. Discounts are usually resumed
when the hotels 'get hungry' for guests' again. There is a
full-time, continuing effort to bring you the best possible room rates. |
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Why
do you feel it is important to have different maps for different size
monitors?
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larger the monitor, the more information can be presented on its screen.
Not too long ago, 15 inch monitors were the 'standard' in computer
system sales. Now it is 17 inch which displays much more information. |
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On the
other side of the coin is the 'LCD' monitor (the skinny monitors which
cost somewhat more then the older 'glass bottle' monitors. These are
usually smaller in screen size so we have to accommodate them, also. |
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Who
and what is Wheatley Memorial Institute?
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Memorial Institute of Information Sciences was created in 1974 as a
not-for-profit corporation under section 501 (C) (3) of the 1954
Internal Revenue Code. The Institute is an electronic library engaging
in the necessary research to acquire, classify, store, retrieve,
disseminate and utilize information by man-machine systems and networks.
So much for the legaleze. For nearly three decades, Wheatley has been
involved in the improvement of the understanding and use of computer
systems as tools in making the right information available to the right
people at the right time. |
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Originated
in 1999 by a private grant, this project is formatted to utilize
information from previous projects to present (to the traveling public)
Interstate Highway exit locations and particulars, available lodging,
etc. We started with the Interstate Highways in North and South
Carolina, expanded it to cover the central and south Atlantic Coast
states*, added California and Nevada and now include the primary 1 and 2
digit Interstates in the U.S.A. In addition to available, discounted
lodging, information will include links to our What-Where.info web site
which lists principal attractions in North America. |
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Does
Wheatley have other web sites that may be of interest to me?
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Memorial Institute has designed and operates many web sites which are of
interest to tourists and travelers. They include:
(click
on title to visit that web site)
CarolinaNow.com
The largest, most comprehensive database and website dedicated to promoting tourism in the Carolinas.
CarolinaNow features listings of state parks and includes camp grounds
(government operated as well as many private facilities), RV parks,
recreational and historical attractions, activities expected to be of
interest to tourists. CarolinaNow even includes a directory of wedding
chapels.
HiwayGuide.com
Directory of hotels
convenient to the principal Interstate highways in the United States. Uses maps to allow
you to click your way to the
hotel directory in a CITY of choice usually specifying which Interstate
exit allows access to the property.
We also maintain separate
website for the most popular Interstate highways, namely:
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Hotels-Near-Airports.com
A guide to hotels
and motels at or adjacent to airports in North America. These listings
include such information as hotels providing free van service to/from
the airport, hotels having Internet connections in the rooms and hotels
having wide-band Internet connections in the rooms.
Hotels-near-Times-Square.com
Directory of Discount
Hotels in the Times Square area of New York City. Includes Broadway and
'off-Broadway' theatres in the Times Square area.
Reserv-Net.com
Directory of
hotels, world-wide, using maps to allow the site visitor to click his/her way to the
hotel directory in a CITY of choice.
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How
can I contact Wheatley Memorial Institute?
We would really like
to hear from you. Many web site improvements have been the result of e-mails
we have received from our site visitors.
Send your e-mail
message to us at:
HELP@Wheatley.Lib.NC.US
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Thank you for helping us
help you!
George T Davis,
Jr.
Executive Editor
Wheatley
Memorial Institute
of Information Sciences
a 501(c)(3) not-for profit electronic library
staffed entirely by dedicated volunteers
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