Travelers
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By Leasa Hachey
Guidebooks and travel magazines are helpful when trying to choose
hotels, excursions, or a destination for your next vacation. Travel
agents are even better. But what could be less biased and more
helpful than no-holds-barred, word-of-mouth comments and
comparisons of trips made by other travelers just like
you.
This is the idea
behind MyTripReport.com, a web site devoted to consumer reviews
called trip reports that provides these honest assessments for
destinations all over the globe, sometimes with dozens of reviews
for a single hotel or destination.
At MyTripReport.com members post their trip reports in three easy
steps, and can even include photos of their trip within their
report. The site is simple, uncluttered and very easy to navigate.
Members can then send their family a link to their report and share
their vacation and photos easily with their loved ones, friends,
and even with strangers on message boards and within
newsgroups.
And trip reports
are just as easy to locate; searching can be done by destination,
resort, vacation theme, cruise ship, or by member name.
MyTripReport.com also includes a photo gallery of many
destinations, including photos of many Caribbean resorts. A number
of travel tools are also available on the site, including
Government travel advisories, currency converters, airline seating
maps, plus many more.
Word-of-mouth is such an invaluable tool available to us, its nice
not to be totally dependant on squeaky-clean hotel websites and
travel brochures.
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