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TripAdvisor a useful travel app

Max ZanderJanuary 20, 2015

Dirty hotel rooms, unfriendly waiters, or overpriced exhibitions – disappointments on holiday tend to lurk everywhere. The TripAdvisor App, however, promises to help avoid these pitfalls with a myriad of user reviews.

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This app can draw on practically unlimited resources, after all TripAdvisor is the world's largest portal for travel reviews. This helps the user of the app to find a suitable hotel or restaurant. Using individual criteria like location and price TripAdvisor makes suggestions. The selection is predominantly based on existing reviews. The user can also submit detailed reviews with photos and by rating the place – ideally with the full five points available.

Sporting activities, museums, or sights are also part of the listings. Available hotel rooms and flights can also be researched and, by using the provided webpage-links, easily booked. To avoid unnecessary roaming costs you can download the package for your destination onto your smart phone and then use the app off line when there. You will need 250 MB storage for this though.

In our test, TripAdvisor proved to be a good guide to Berlin. The app provides a very extensive range of services and yet is easy to use. By using the "what's nearby" function it offered spontaneous suggestions for places worth visiting close by.

Like all app-based user reviews, however, caution is advised. Reviews submitted are checked against the app's own internal guidelines, but content is not verified. Therefore, even though the authenticity of a reviewer has been verified, there is plenty of room to misuse the portal. It is advisable not to rely on one single review, but rather to use several reviews to gain an overall impression before making any decision.

The result:: For those with plenty of time to battle through the mass of information and to critically read the individual reviews, TripAdvisor is going to be a useful help in deciding where to go.

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