Hotels - Direct reservations vs. Priceline,Expedia, etc

hmom5
Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:58:10 +0000

Totally the individual. I’ve long since come to understand that many who take the time to post on Tripadvisor are not savvy travelers. Not sure why, and I feel those of us who do travel a lot and have a broader frame of reference need to post more. I’ve started to.

This is why you need to read the long version of some posts. You’ll often get to the part where they didn’t bring a fax or room service was cold which explains a bad rating among good ones.

You need to read it for what’s important to you. If it’s an $80/night hotel and the posts are saying it’s the best hotel they’ve ever been to, chances are, even in a third world country, this is an inexperienced traveler.

To me the site is absolutely perfect for finding good value hotels for those with middle of the road expectations and requires a more in depth read for those into luxury. Yet I count on it fully for both types of travel and have never gotten to a hotel that was not accurately represented.