Do you post reviews on Tripadvisor.com?

[manarak]

I always write reviews in Tripadvisor about hotels I visit.
I include info about the joiner policy and the internet costs.

Hell, now Tripadvisor even offered me the title of "destination expert".
Apparently this role has some duties, but no priviledges, so I refused.

Do you write reviews on Tripadvisor?

[daveduke007]

I've wrote a few on asiarooms and appreciate others for doing the same as it gives a great insight of Hotels I maybe thinking of staying at, I read them all first and it does sway me one way or another

[seanbeag7]

What is tripadviser?

And where is the link so that we can look up the site for ourselves

[rxpharm]

I write have written reviews on Agoda - the on-line hotel booking site. I have had good results with them so far, booking a hotel in SG, Phuket, Pattaya, and now for an upcoming trip to Chiang Mai. Link for Agoda: Agoda

Rates were lower than the even the discount rates via walk in for these booking.

Trip advisor is a similiar site - but they also include airline bookings, restaurants, cruises, activities. Here is the link sean: Trip Advisor

[PigDogg]

If booking through a third party, especially in Thailand, I like Agoda best.  

If you book through Agoda, and then reveiw that hotel then you get a few bonus points.

I think Trip Advisor is an interesting site too.

You can get a good flavor of a place through real reviews but positive reviews of a small place on Trip Advisor may very well be written by the guesthouse owner.  One owner even admited that too me me.  He says you do what you gotta do to promote a place.

[Anthony_Mustang]

Yeap love Tripadvisor. Always check before I choose a hotel and posted a few reviews myself. Would recomend anyone to have a look before booking a hotel.

Like many others I also use Agoda and have been for many years. Thing I love about them is there reward scheme ($100) off my next booking  

The other site I always look at is Airline equality.

[dutch]

(PigDogg @ Dec. 06 2008,15:11) I like Agoda best.  

What I don't like about Agoda is that you have to start making a booking to see the price including taxes. And as soon as you make that booking prices are in $ again instead of the currency you selected.

[PigDogg]

Good points!

On airline/hotel sites I want to see the bottom line price upfront.

As far as dollars/euros/baht I want to see only the currency in which my credit card will actually be charged. If I will be charged in baht I'll put it on my Kasikorn card, if in dollars my United Mileage Plus, and if in Euros I'll be prepared for FX charges.

[ciobha]

Jesus PD, you've got more cards than a Las Vegas casino.

[marshal]

Don't post reviews, but often read them! Normally asiarooms as i find them reliable!

[deepthroat]

I've used TripAdvisor many many times, and love the information contained. It didn't have much info on either of the main LOS hotels I was interested in (Pattaya Bay Resort and Safari Beach in Phuket) so I didn't scour it like I normally do. On past vacations I've chosen hotels primarily based upon the user reviews found there, as it's a great source of unbiased info. You get the usual quota of grumpy old fucks who don't like anything, but you can separate the wheat from the chafe by reading a number of reviews about the same place.

[SukhumvitRoad]

I have used the site regularly in the past and I used to post reviews on it pretty regularly. When I posted a couple of negative ones, however, I discovered something interesting.

First, one negative review was never allowed online by the moderators. There was nothing offensive in it and I never heard a word from anyone about it. They just eliminated my review when I said I hated a hotel because I thought it was dirty and dingy. All the other online reviews for that particular hotel were raves and apparently they didn't want to allow anyone to sully the good reviews. So, when you read reviews, be careful. It appears that what is actually posted is slanted to some degree by the moderators to eliminate at least some of the negatives comments.

Second, the negative review I wrote that did make it online contained the general observation that a certain hotel in Honolulu wasn't all that bad since the good old days of great hotels in Honolulu had passed anyway. Pretty innocuous stuff, huh? Well, you wouldn't think so by the hate mail that came flooding in after that comment was posted. I got fifteen or twenty emails offering variations on the theme that I was a stupid shit and I should go fuck myself and never write a hotel review again. The email was so nasty that I cut off messaging within the site and removed my email address.

I wrote the moderators and asked if this was normal, but no one ever responded. I haven't reviewed a hotel on that site since. Good Lord. Who needs that kind of crappola?

[manarak]

hmm. you probably have your own peculiar style of writing reviews.

I wrote a couple of negative ones - they are still there, I received no mails either.
check out
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUse....ri.html

[SukhumvitRoad]

Maybe. Still, if you don't want to take my word for the fact that this review in particular was innocuous, then I guess you don't.

Anyway, I wasn't saying that all negative reviews were edited out. Clearly there are many there. My only point is that once I knew that at least one had been blocked, it is was natural to wonder how many others might have been.

The forum has always been a valuable resource for me, but I have reevaluated my reading of the review information now that I know some negative reviews are excluded. And I say 'some' because it just seems inconceivable to me that this one of mine was somehow unique in being dumped.

[manarak]

didn't accuse you of anything

On my site, I have to delete comments and reviews quite often, because people don't know how to write the reviews.
They don't realize that accusing people of criminal acts or insulting/denigrating them or making racist comments puts them and me at significant legal risk.

I don't say that was the case for your review - I just want to make the point that yes, sometimes reviews have to be deleted.

But maybe the economics behind the reviews are different depending on where the hotel is.