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Tripadvisor Reviews Summary

The company maintains a mixed reputation, with some customers praising its user-friendly platform and the wealth of travel insights it provides, which enhance trip planning. However, significant concerns arise regarding customer service, particularly in handling booking issues and refund requests, leading to frustration among users. Complaints about outdated accommodations and perceived bias in review moderation further detract from the overall experience. The sentiment reflects a growing dissatisfaction with responsiveness and transparency, suggesting a need for improved communication and support to enhance customer trust and satisfaction.

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service
78
value
67
shipping
24
returns
28
quality
61

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2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Honest and reliable.
March 23, 2016

I have used trip advisor many times and found the information to be very honest and accurate, I am provide many reviews to trip advisor and what I submit along with photos are always shown as submitted.
Trip advisor is a great source of information allowing you to make the right decision on where to go, you must take into consideration every ones experience and expectations are different and this is shown in the varied reviews.

Date of experience: March 22, 2016
Tunisia
15 reviews
45 helpful votes
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Simply the best!
March 19, 2016

I love this website, and I love the app which is great while traveling. I always double check any hotel on this website before booking.

Nothing but good things to say about this website, everyone should use it!

Date of experience: March 19, 2016
Florida
8 reviews
13 helpful votes
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I really like this site, but they have a major short coming. I am finding edits to listings beyond a simple review practically doesn't get done. I have flagged several listings with wrong addresses, duplicates, or being closed and that never seems to get processed and you get info on places that aren't there anymore when searching for suggestions where to go.

I have sent followups, and I get assurances they will make the change (not sure if those are from live beings or automated responses), yet they don't happen. I have one change since October and now the business has closed down!

Bad data is worst than no data. But since many of these "review" sites pride themselves on how many entries they have, they seem to be slow in taking data down or prefer to duplicate entries leaving things behind.

Date of experience: March 17, 2016
Australia
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Pretty useful site but may be getting some "help "as reviews are occasionally out of kilter with personal experience. May be my paranoia, of course.!

Date of experience: March 15, 2016
Germany
4 reviews
22 helpful votes
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Useless
March 14, 2016

If you want to be a tourist, then get advice from tourists.

This is the place for you.

You will get cheese filled boring monotonous and stupid suggestions of amazing places in the world.

And if you dare to criticize a place, the owner can have it taken down. What is the point then?

Date of experience: March 14, 2016
India
6 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Hem Okey!
March 12, 2016

I am a heavy user of TripAdvisor to plan vacations. I do not trust all the reviews since, few might be fake. I've read on "TripAdvisor: the funniest reviews, biggest controversies and best spoofs". TA is good, but few reviews seems not to be genuine.

Date of experience: March 11, 2016
Philippines
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Helpful
March 11, 2016

The reviews from this site are very helpful to travelers like me.

Date of experience: March 11, 2016
Malaysia
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Since I discovered Trip Advisor several years ago it's been my most trusted and indispensable reference tool for planning all my holiday trips abroad.
The various aids - booking hotels and comparing different rates, searching for the cheapest and best flights, suggestions on Things To Do are my most frequented sections.
I depend on all the reviews of fellow travelers and use them in deciding what affordable hotels to book and what interesting activities to choose from all the available choices.
Thanks

Date of experience: March 9, 2016
Hong Kong
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Thanks tripadvisor for providing my wonderful service. I had a nice trip.

Date of experience: March 9, 2016
Florida
5 reviews
2 helpful votes
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My go to site
March 8, 2016

Every time I plan a trip, Trip Advisor is my go to site for real reviews. Especially when your looking for things to do in that area.

Date of experience: March 7, 2016
Indonesia
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Very usefull
February 27, 2016

If you are travelling to a place you have never been to, Tripadvisor can be relied on. But i found in some cases that subjective judgment of reviewers (hi rated reviewer) can be judmental and contrary to the facts. I found reviews of high rated reviewer, which is unfair as it was during an incident while may cause visitors decline visiting the place reviewed. So visitors of trip advisors should also visit other websites to check the object.

Date of experience: February 26, 2016
California
4 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Great site for reviews
February 26, 2016

The reviews this site provides are very helpful and you cna plan the best trip

Date of experience: February 24, 2016
India
3 reviews
43 helpful votes
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Good for booking hotels
February 24, 2016

TripAdvisor is my favorite website to book hotels, buses in affordable price.
Trough this I got offered in goibibo and we got kanah shyam hotel in Allahabad at very good price. So I would like to say this is best to consumer and I recommend it.

Date of experience: February 23, 2016
Canada
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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For the last three years I have been doing the advance research for our winter vacation. The Trip Advisor site has proven itself to be a wealth of information, from tours to places to stay. Other user reviews and their willingness to share their personal experiences. Trip Advisor has been a very useful tool in our vacation planning experience.

Date of experience: February 22, 2016
Saudi Arabia
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Traveler's Website
February 23, 2016

One of the best website for Travelers. Contains most of the information about the visiting places. Excellent work done by Travelers.

Date of experience: February 22, 2016
Australia
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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We travel to many country's using differing modes of transport, before booking anything I always look on this site to see the opinions of others regarding accommodation and tours, things to do etc. The information on here is invaluable.
Maureen Fortune

Date of experience: February 21, 2016
Texas
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Be careful
February 21, 2016

I suspect there are some fake reviews on here. The hotel I chose to visit on Malta was nothing like the page suggested.

Date of experience: February 21, 2016
GB
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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This is a good site
February 20, 2016

I always use trip advisor as it helps me choose my holidays with out this site I would have had a lot of bad experiences but thanks to trip Advisor I have avoided a lot of bad hotels and holidays

Date of experience: February 19, 2016
GB
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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They are really living Upto their brand name and providing valuable advises on travel destinations and best deals.

Date of experience: February 16, 2016
Georgia
5 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Love the site
February 16, 2016

Every place I visit I go to trip advisor and leave details of my trips.

Date of experience: February 14, 2016