Stophalfway.com is the perfect website for planning those long distance journeys where you need some breaks en-route.

• Visiting some friends who now live 200 miles away want to stop halfway for a meal?
• Planned a stay with relatives but want to make a holiday of it by staying somewhere lovely for a couple of nights on the way there?
• Are you planning any long journey with young children?
• Have you got yet another business meeting that involves crossing the country?

For these and any number of other examples, Stophalfway.com has the answers.

Simply type in your start and destination addresses then choose a point midway (either by time or distance) where you would like a break and stophalfway.com locates the nearest 'resting' places – be it a café or restaurant for a food stop or a hotel for the night.

The 'slider' facility allows you to specify where in the journey you want to stop – it need not be halfway. The slider adjusts the stopping point of the journey either by time or distance in case you might want to stop after 3 hours or 100 miles.

Once you have found a nice place to rest, click on the 'add to trip' button and place it in the 'your trip' box which acts very much like a shopping basket, except that this service is absolutely free to use! Add other venues to 'your trip' and build up your journey. You can then email yourself directions to your destination via your chosen resting place(s) along the route or simply print them. You can even book most hotels online.

Make the journey part of the trip with stophalfway.com.