I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people...

Well, freeborn perhaps, but 50-odd miles of motorway travelling each & every is enough for this humble non-teaching staffer.
Still, we're not selfish & realise that the needs of our academic colleagues are utterly different from those of us lesser mortals. Thus when I heard that some of my esteemed pedagogical chums were having difficulties in locating suitable accommodation for themselves & their charges in dodgy, foreign locations, my first thought was "Why do they have to fly there & risk muggings, hangovers & gastric complaints when a phone call or email would have allowed us to point them in the direction of Schmap & its wonderful city guides." Download the lot (500Mb, 500 cities) for free, saving money, stress & DVT. But no, spurned professionally again.
Anyway next time the wanderlust bites, remember this post. The city guides are rather good even if Inverness doesn't figure yet...and I nearly forgot, Boston & St. Petersburg do.

http://www.schmap.com