Tripadvisor

Like any site that has reviews, (including this one) you have to read ALL the reviews carefully. Super high ratings that give glowing reviews of a 2 star hotel are normally bogus, and reviewed by employees. If you look through all the reviews tho... you will really get a good idea about a property. Look for consistency in the reviews. If someone complains over and over about service, even tho they have a high rating, chances are there are problems with the service. I constantly consult tripadvisor before planning trips, and once I learned the tips I have outlined, I have not been disappointed.

I used TripAdvisor on my recent trip to Nashville, TN and they COMPLETELY misrepresented the Motel they recommended. They had to of weeded out the back reviews.
I wasn't able to arrive until bedtime. I have no choice but to stay the night. This Motel is absolutely unacceptable. I walk in the room and it smells like poop. I am not exaggerating. This room smelled like someone hid poop somewhere. There's no clock, no lamp, no outlets by the bed.
I had to go to Dollar General and buy 2 pillows and a blanket so I could sleep that night. So much for trying to save a bit of money and staying at a Motel. I feel as if you misrepresented this location immensely. This supposed Handicapped room has a bathtub with high sides that I cannot get into even if I wanted to. I am so upset. I have to sleep there because I can't possibly look around for another place at that late time. I left the next morning and I will not be using your website again.
When I woke up that morning, there were smooshed I don't know what kind of large bugs in several locations and pieces of the mattress on the floor like something had gathered them or was living in the mattress. I paid $83.86 PLUS your fees. This is unacceptable. You misrepresented this place.

Dozens of my reviews got deleted and some never published! TripAdvisor is an advertising agency and not an honest broker! I do not trust trip advisor with ratings! Look at other reviews and compare! This place is ministry of propaganda for profit!

Don't book through them. Drove 4 hours to only find out that the hotel canceled my reservation because trip advisor didn't send them my card information. I ended up having to pay an additional $300 so me and my children would have somewhere to lay our head. They did not try to compensate me one dime. The hotel blamed them and they blamed the hotel. Totally ruined our trip. Save yourself the trouble and don't book through them ever. Let's add that the room looks old outdated and dingy

I have fish with Alaska Fish on twice, 2015 and 2016. Darlene was great to work with. She found us a place that we want and great fishing trips. Both times we went we got our limit of our Kings and Halibut. The fishing trips were both hassle free and we enjoyed them very much. I will highly recommend her to anyone who is planning to fish in Alaska. I could have not asked for anything better. It was a very good experience. Rudy, North Carolina

This is a web site I always use to read (and post) reviews. I do find that some of the reviewer's 'private agenda' may require you to read all the reviews and evaluate what is being said holistically. For example, I was mugged in Lima, Peru so I posted my experience. It was interesting to see what seemed like "tourism police" A. K. A. 'tourist guides' trying to downplay my posts. They bullied the forum and painted a false sense of security rather than contributing positive, truthful and helpful information. So when I read post on foreign destinations I evaluate all the posts, the dates they were posted and also look at the list of post a particular contributor has (if they dominate the conversation) to see if I see a trend that would tell me they are sales agents. I also try to corroborate with other sources.

I have been writing my experiences in www.tripadvisor.com and just realised that when you write a wrong experience regarding a Hotel, they just say that cannot publish it. A friend of mine which runs a Hotel has told me that they offer the possibility to the hotel owners to block the review because www.tripadvisor.com gets money from them. So I would advise you NOT to trust in this site with respect to hotels comments (I believe that restaurants are ok because they do not benefit from those comments). Now I have started to realised why the comments I read with respect to hotels did not much with my real experience. I hope this helps to users! Thanks

A great site to talk to members who have been to a place you are planning on. We have just been to Naples and sorrento on a tight budget. Members gave some good tips and on how to get to the city from airport. I do think that some revues may seem valid many may think otherwise. So you have to decide on what's important to you. Enjoyed Naples for 4 nights with the locals and nice shops and cafes lots of walking., but when reviewing safety on TripAdvisor we almost didnt go. It made us very aware of dressing down in crowds, we would go again.

I recently purchased show tickets through TripAdvisor's subsidiary Viator. I mistakenly chose the wrong date - a week earlier than we would be in town. I did not realize this until after the original show date. I asked if I could transfer the reservation and was told I couldn't and was berated for not noticing within the policy 24-hour period. I understand policy and if I was trying to cancel it would be different - I still wanted the tickets, just on a different date. I don't recommend booking any entertainment through this site. Out the money and no show tickets.

I absolutely LOVE this site! I'm speaking in regard to reviews. TA reviews have helped me tremendously in narrowing down my options in selecting a hotel or booking specific activities, especially when traveling abroad. I love how TA has it's own community of reviewers who contribute and share their experiences by posting images.

I had a horrible experience at a hotel in Paris that had bed bugs. Had I known about TA, I would have never booked that hotel. Upon discovering TA, I found out that the hotel I stayed in, had multiple negative reviews about the same bed bug issues (I still get chills!).

An improvement that TA can make is on their rates offered for hotel bookings. I've found that other hotel sites have lower rates as opposed to TA. If their rates were lower, I'd love to make TA my one stop destination for hotel reviews and bookings.