Tripadvisor is a website that
helps travelers plan their vacation. The website can be used to search for
flights, hotels, restaurants, and attractions.
Pros and Cons
Pros
Tripadvisor allows users to get advice from ordinary travelers.
The website includes travelers' photos.
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Reviews for specific hotels, restaurants, and attractions can be filtered several different ways including
most recent, most detailed, languages the review is written in, and number of stars.
It is also possible to search reviews by keyword.
Tripadvisor also allows users to search hotels by price, distance from a specific attraction, and amenities.
Also, you can find out the best time to visit based on the weather and crowd size.
Tripadvisor also allows users to filter restaurants by meal type, online options, cuisines, and dishes.
The attractions section offers users the ability to filter attractions by type, neighborhood, and traveler rating.
TheFork is a restaurant reservation service provided by Tripadvisor.
Cons
It is difficult to spot a fake review.
Photos can be posted for the wrong location.
Sometimes reviews are too vague, such as "loved it," or are about a
specific problem that is unlikely to be repeated with other visitors.
The pictures for a place might showcase a visitor rather than the place
being visited.
Hotels.com
Hotels.com is a third-party website
that is useful for booking hotel rooms.
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Pros and Cons
Pros
Hotels.com offers a free rewards program called One Key.
The website also offers apartments and condos for rent.
There are several options for filtering the properties.
Cons
Many properties charge a higher price for rooms with free cancellation.
Some hotels provide a lower quality room, or fewer perks, if Hotels.com is used to book the room rather than going
through the hotel.
Commissions paid by the property owners are factored into the search results ranking.
