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Simple, intuitive and flexible: in most of the cases you don't have to pay at the time of booking
Maybe for this reason Booking is the site number one when you are looking for an accomodation wherever in the world
Maybe the could improve the map because sometimes it doesn't work properly...

Couchsurfing is a great concept: don't waste you money in an anonymous hotel, but meet a local who can show you the everyday life of a city.
I always use it when I visit a place, even only for a coffee with locals. By chatting and having fun, you can understand a lot about a different culture.
Unfortunately in the last years CS has been experiencing many technical problems and became quite confused. Not to mention about the mobile version - almost impossible to browse.
Anyway CS is a great project: they should just put some money on it and try to improve it!

I've been using www.travelhostdate.com during the last couple of months and I think that I finally found a good travel-dating site
THD Travelhostdate is brand new, so it's less crowded than other similar sites.
It has many interesting features like the trips' map and the events created by the members, plus some fun tools like the chat-roulette and the video-chat (no more need to go on skype to see the other person!)
But the best idea is that all the girls are verified and they really exist!
I didn't believe it, so I spent time browsing most of the profiles and I realized it's true! On their profile all the girls have a photo of them holding a the sign travelhostdate! That's a simply system, but it works! It means that the photo is recent - not taken 10 years or 20 kilos ago :) I wonder why other sites don't do the same!
So, it seems that I finally discovered a clean site to find travel companions and beautiful girls with my same passion for traveling...

I starrted using it many years ago and it still works.
The main problem is that the reviews can be fake as tripadvisor doesn't check if you have really been there.
Anyway I think that if you only consider the reviews of people with more than 30-40 reviews, you can still get good advices!

I paid for 2 months on travelgirls. After this period I realized that it's definitely a site full of fake profiles. I read that they verify the identity of the members, but actually they don't.
As a consequence, most of the girls on the site post photos of other people or are escorts.

Anyway I still think that the idea of travel-dating is pretty good. Some other sites offer a similar service. I tried some of these and right now I'm using www.travelhostdate.com
It's less crowded (maybe because it's quite new) and the best part is that all the girls are real!
In fact, on the page of every girl you can see a recent photo of them holding a sign with the name of the site! That's a simply system, but it seems it works!
I wonder why other sites don't do the same...