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How reliable do you find Trip Advisor.com and other site reviews?
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Posted by lsst (My Page) on Mon, Sep 8, 08 at 22:12
I post on a lot of other forums but am planning a trip.
When I plan a trip, I do an internet search on places and Trip adviser.com and other travel sites always comes up with reviews. Do you find them reliable?
It seems when someone posts a negative review- the owner posts a response against the review. I know the owner has a right but how do I tell the real truth? I do not want to find out once I get there. |
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| I used reviews from Tripadvisor for my Napa vacation and I was completely happy with everything. I don't think it was because of all the wine that I consumed LOL. Hope that helps you a bit. |
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| I've used Tripadviser for the past 3 or 4 vacations I have taken mainly to check out the hotels I'd be staying at. The thing I have learned is that there's always someone that will complain. I look at the reviews as a whole. If 9 out of 10 say the food is bad, for example, then the food is probably bad. All in all, I have found Tripadviser fairly accurate on the reviews. |
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| I also use tripadvisor. I agree someone will always complain. The last time we needed a hotel (very last minute emergency) the hotel we wanted because of location, we hesitated to book because of a review...
It ended up being where we stayed anyway. So it was a great help to us in locating what we needed!
I don't recall if this is still the case, but at one time you could email the person leaving reviews. I did this the very first time we used it years ago before they changed. We stayed in a very nice chalet in Gatlinburg based on thier review and email reply. |
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| Since anyone can post a review, there might be some false or "planted" ones. So in addition to reading those, do a search in their forums for the name of the hotel. The forums are NOT the same as the hotel reviews. The forums are where someone asks a question and other people write back. When someone mentions a place, then click on their name and check to see when they registered. If they registered as trip advisor members that same day, you can’t trust their review. People on the forums are more likely to be long term members who know a lot about the area they are discussing. I did a lot of research in Trip advisor before a long trip a year ago. I found the forums to be pretty reliable, and the hotel reviews more subject to bias or plants. Keep in mind that unhappy people are more likely to post a complaint than happy ones are to write a positive review. |
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| I use TripAdvisor as well, and agree that not all the postings seem reliable. A good alternative for researching hotels is Oyster Hotel Reviews (www.oyster.com), which supposedly pays for its journalists to stay in hotels anonymously (no freebies) and write professional reviews. Their reviews are a little too detailed for my taste, but I love looking at the 100's of photos they take of each hotel property. |
Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.oyster.com/
RE: How reliable do you find Trip Advisor.com and other site revi
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| I use TripAdvisor and other sites to check out where we are going. Just remember, because a lower star/cost hotel gets wonderful reviews, don't expect it to be a five star hotel. I expect a lot more from a 4 or 5 star hotel than I do of a 2 or 3 star hotel. So, I rate them accordingly. I don't think anyone expects a room that costs $75 to be as good as The Four Seasons or The Ritz. But, it may be great for a 2 star $75 hotel and I would rate it highly. If I stayed at Four Seasons, it doesn't take much for me to give a less than wonderful review. For their price, I expect near perfection. |
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