Press release

Left Your Easter Plans until the Last Minute Again? Worry Not! Multimap has a Basketful of Eggs-citing Ideas for You!

30 March 2006

If you've left your Easter plans until the last minute, and you don’t want to wait to see what the Easter Bunny will pull out of the basket, worry not! Simply visit www.multimap.com for a bevy of ideas that will help you hunt down your Easter treasure with great ease and success. In conjunction with our partners toptable, Active Hotels, Francis Frith and Getmapping, we've got lots of fabulous ideas for restaurants, hotels and gifts over the Easter period.

  • If you're looking for the perfect venue for your Easter lunch, Multimap and toptable are offering just the meal ticket! We open the door to a treasure trove of over 1,200 wonderful restaurants for all tastes, palettes and budgets, ranging from Michelin-starred restaurants to local, family-run eateries, in the UK and Paris.*
  • Fancy skipping around Europe this Easter, but reluctant to make a dent on your nest egg? Active Hotels is offering a bunch of springtime promotions throughout April on www.multimap.com to help! Browse through 11,000 accommodation options, ranging from 5-star quality properties, to independent hotels, B&Bs and guest houses across the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, to find the ideal setting for your ideal Easter!**
  • In partnership with The Francis Frith Collection and Getmapping, Multimap offers great ideas on gifts including local maps, photos, books and aerial images of the area you grew up in, or the home that is so much more than just a house.***

So make sure there are happy bunnies all round; just visit www.multimap.com for all your gift, entertainment, and travel needs this Easter!

Sean Phelan, founder and chairman of Multimap, said "We aim to make www.multimap.com as useful as possible for our 10 million plus unique users as they go about their busy lives. We are constantly adding new services, improving existing ones, and innovating in the mapping space, to this end. Most recently, we rolled out our point-to-point Travel Directions service in New Zealand and Australia, so our friends down under can also plan their sorties this Easter with great ease. Multimap wishes everyone a very Happy Easter 2006!"

*Visitors to www.multimap.com simply enter a search for an area of interest in the UK or Paris, and click on the 'Restaurants' link to the left of the screen, to access a list of nearby dining options with top-line details such as restaurant name, cuisine type and distance from location entered. You can browse through thousands of insightful reviews and special offers for all the restaurants on toptable's books, before reserving the perfect venue for proceedings this Easter!

**Simply find the location you'll be visiting on www.multimap.com; click on the hotel icon above the map; and see all the nearby options appear on-screen as a list. Then, click on an option of interest for further details, and make your reservation.

*** Simply click on the 'Historic Photos' icon to the left of the Multimap homepage, enter your UK place or postcode in the search box that appears, and follow the simple instructions. Alternatively, click on the Aerial Photos link on the left of the Multimap homepage to choose from thousands of aerial photo prints, high-resolution digital images, and personalised aerial photo prints. Just enter the placename or postcode of your fancy to access images from the largest aerial survey ever undertaken in Great Britain, as provided by Multimap's partner, Getmapping.

About Multimap

Multimap is Europe's leading provider of mapping and location-based services. The company delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial ("where's my nearest?") searches to more companies than any other supplier in Europe. All services are offered on mobile, PDA, kiosk, and interactive TV platforms and in multiple languages.

The public website, www.multimap.com, provides a range of free, useful services to assist with everyday life. Key features include street-level maps of Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; links to location information; and services such as hotel, restaurant and entertainment booking. The public site attracts over 10 million unique users, registers more than 180 million page impressions every month, and is one of the top 10 most visited websites in the UK. Multimap recently featured in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 league table of fastest-growing unquoted UK companies across all sectors.