Links: Travel Aides
Travel Web Sites Provide Insights,Helpful Links and Even GF Tours
Here are the four best travel web sites for people with celiac disease. Online forums also are a good source of travel tips and advice.
Association of European Celiac Societies
The Association of European Celiac Societies (AOECS) is an umbrella organization of the societies within individual European countries.
At the AOECS site, you will find links to individual European celiac associations, as well as information about producers of gluten-free food in Europe.
BobandRuths.com
Bob and Ruth Levy operate Bob & Ruth's Gluten-free Dining & Travel Club, which operates about half a dozen travel tours a year for people with celiac disease. Bottom line: You can travel anywhere in the world without worrying about getting gluten-free meals.
Bob and Ruth’s also publishes a quarterly newsletter that contains tips on travel, dining out and GF living in general.
The business is based in Havre de Grace, Md., just north of Baltimore.
CeliacTravel.com
Operated by a Scotsman with wanderlust (and celiac), CeliacTravel.com has several features—all of them free—to help make traveling easier.
Chief among these are restaurant cards that you can use to explain your need for a gluten-free meal in any of nearly 40 languages.
The site also has a page that with links to international celiac associations, as well as to other sites of interest to the celiac traveler.
GlutenFreePassport.com
GlutenFreePassport.com is maintained by the authors of “Let’s Eat Out! Your Passport to Living Gluten and Allergy Free.” The book, running nearly 500 pages, is a guide to how to eat out safely.
The site contains a great variety of advice and information for anyone with celiac planning international travel. This includes a list of airlines that offer GF meals; GF travel cards in five languages; tips, and a large number of links to celiac associations, and makers and retailers of GF products.
GlutenFreePassport.com is based in Chicago.