Web Design for a travel social website

A Nice Holiday

ANiceHoliday is a community driven travel site. The site aims to reduce the hassle of travel planning, and ultimately create a nice holiday experience for travelers from start to end with user generated location based travel tips, pictures and things to do

People looking to plan for A Nice Holiday with community tips and photos as well as to share their travel experiences

We are open to the design as long as it is able to portray a light, relaxing and holiday mood. We like a clean web 2.0

We would like to be provided everything we would need in a layered PSD. So, any unusual fonts(easy to read) or stock images used would need to be included. Also, we have a existing logo but we are definitely open to creativity to match/enhance the logo with the web design

Other points to note:
Easy to use, not cluttered, attractive to consumer
Social, relax, leisure, fun, trustworthy, light, smooth,
Can be 'cute' but don't want to be too kiddish.

Sites that we like
http://beta.vacationrelation.com/ (Spacious feeling, reference for Home)
http://www.stay.com/bangkok (Organized, reference for Destinations)
http://www.igougo.com
http://www.travelmuse.com/

Sites not in our design list
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ (Too cluttered)
http://www.travelport.com/ (Boxy design)

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Home page
- Display of destination images, categorized by country
- Google style search box for user to fill in the destination.
- logo,
- sign up/Login,
- Space for introduction text/featured info
- Footer links with social network icons (Facebook, Foursquare)
- Download iphone app icon

Destinations page
-User can view the places to go and add them to a to do list.
-Places to go are filtered according to 1)categories accordingly to food, hotel etc and 2)preferences
-User can also book via a link/button the hotels/tickets etc and check for flights based on a date input field.
-A section to display popular/recommended places

Please see attached screenshots.