Although I have lived and worked in London for a number of years, my work takes me to lots of weird and wonderful places. Most of these places I have never heard of (the old cliché about Londoners not knowing anything North of London certainly applies to me!), this left me with a problem; how will I find local services when I travel to a new place? Well the answer for me was City Visitor.

City Visitor is a local business search for the UK, sort off similar to Yell.com but a lot more user friendly and seems to give you more options when searching. Simply log onto the website and type in the type of service you need and the location, I normally look to see where my hotel is and check for restaurants and pubs nearby.

The handy thing about City Visitor is that it gives you a map and circles your chosen service, that may not seem that impressive, but it also tells you where the nearest railway station is and can give you directions from any other location (sort of like Auto Route). All this information can be printed and taken with you on your travels.

City visitor also allows you to book and check room availability of thousands of hotels in the UK and book flights to anywhere in the world.

There is one little problem that I found with City Visitor and come to think of it all of the other search facilities out there, I cannot find a local Head Shop!!! It’s only a small problem and hopefully in the future they will add it, but rest assured that if there is a Head Shop in the random place I end up in, I will find it!

City Visitor is a great website for people who need to find local services, whether they live in the area or are travelling to it for the first time.