a very easy site to use.it gives you a clear overview of places to stay and places to visit,i like reading the reviews about places and peoples experiences.

a great site to look around and see what they have to offer,just reading some reviews on different places,some positive and some negative.

I usually use this site all the time to check out a hotel and restaraunt before going however a recent experience has deterred me. I had a terrible experience at a turkish restaraunt which resulted in food poisoning. I had contacted the establishment in mooloolaba prior recviewing them and they didnt care. I wrote my review and tripadvisor took it down. I emailed them asking why to no response. The next day I see this business with a tripadvisor sticker next to their register. It's all a bit too suss for me. I dont like businesses paying sites for good reviews!

Great service, I like reading the reviews and checking transport
Details. Having a new job where parking is limited I use this app for transport purposes.

When we went on our honeymoon it was rather last min and didnt have time to plan things, this is the site i used to find everything around the area, from things to do to places to eat

An excellent site for travellers,you can read reviews posted by travellers,and can also write reviews.reviews are always honest and helpful.its free to join and is well worth reading before booking a motel or eating out etc.

I do a lot of research for our various travels and I often refer to Tripadvisor as "My Travel Bible". I will not book any accommodation or use any travel provider unless I check on Tripadvisor first. And I also post my reviews on there to help out my fellow travellers the same way they have helped me.

I use the website all the time for every accommodation booking I make overseas. I remember my first stay in Paris at a cheap hotel prior to using Tripadvisor and it was a nightmare, and it was then that I found out about Tripadvisor after googling that hotel and finding out that Tripadvisor already had comments about the hotel's 'dirty bed sheets' and 'scary location' - wish I knew earlier!

Since then I have used it religiously, however, I would recommend taking people's comments with a 'grain of salt' as I've noticed some people can be abnormally fussy or just have a one off bad experience. Usually I would read quite a number of the reviews for a hotel to get the gyst of a general theme (eg. noisy location, old building). Its also useful to see the hotel's responses to the various comments as it gives you an idea of the attitude of management to customer concerns.

I also like to look at newer reviews as the management/owners may have changed since or the hotel may be newly renovated.

Their online quotations with the various booking sites is a bit hit and miss because they just have too many, I tend to just stick to the ones I've used before such as expedia and hotels.com. The prices rarely vary between those sites.

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Its a great site to look up your destinations and read feedback for the different people who have stayed there. It helps you to wade through and shortlist a few if you are having trouble deciding

Trip Advisor is an online service, www.tripadvisor.com.au

Trip Advisor tout themselves as "The World's Largest Travel Site" and I'm sure that's true.

They provide reviews of accommodation, restaurants, flights, attractions - anything to do with travel or holidays, you can find it here!

Want to know if that hotel you booked in Adelaide (or New York or Peru) is at the dodgy end of town or a party animals's paradise? Check on Trip Advisor.

I've used them for precisely that (although having already booked the hotel, felt a bit queasy reading all the poor reviews!) Worked out fine though!

I've also used them to check restaurants both locally and interstate, attractions around Adelaide, the Harbour Bridge climb in Sydney, Salamanca market in Hobart (although that one was just from curiosity, I live in Hobart!) I'm amazed at how many people provide reviews, and all the useful tips.

For example, I deduced from Trip Advisor that I should request a room at the back of my hotel in Adelaide, if I didn't want to be situated right over the nightclub - that was really helpful.

You don't have the ability to comment on reviews, but importantly, business owners have a right of reply, so you can read their responses to complaints. This can tell you a lot about a business too, the way the owner speaks to disgruntled clients and tries (or not) to placate and/or problem solve.

A very useful, I would urge everyone to give it a try.

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