This week’s favourites / #36

First time, this. The plan is to make a weekly post, and present some of my web findings, preferably travel-related.

The web is full of fancy stuff, with quite variable usefulness. As this mainly is supposed to be a site about travelling, photography etc., I thought I would start off with some of my absolute favourites.  None of them are especially new, and hopefully most people know about them. Anywho, here’s this week’s favs;

tripadvisor

I can’t remember when I started to use this site, it just feels like it’s always been around. More and more people use internet to book and plan their travels, especially to book air tickets and hotels. And it’s hard to know what sites you can trust. This is where tripadvisor becomes useful. If you’re going somewhere, anywhere really, and either need a place to sleep, or want to see where you’re actually going to sleep, tripadvisor is your place. Enter the name of your desired accommodation, and you will be able to see what people that already have visited the place thinks. If the place exists, you’ll find it here. I think I can count on one hand, the occasions when I haven’t found what I was looking for. Be aware that some people just are crazy, and complain about the weirdest and most unimportant things, but to get an overall impression it’s great!

tripadvisor

TripAdvisor is the world’s largest travel community where you can get real information, advice, and opinions from millions of travelers to plan and take your perfect trip. TripAdvisor is a place you can go for insights and tips, a place that is literally alive with experiences and opinions. It’s a place that feels like a local neighborhood coffee shop, a café, a pub. A friendly and relaxed community filled with unscripted and honest conversations between travelers like you.

Seatguru

The intention of this site is really just to inform people about good and not so good seats in different airplanes, from different airlines. I don’t use this as often as the first page, since I really don’t have the problem of little space in airplanes. Finally a good thing with not being the tallest! However, if you’re a little taller, or just want the best seats next time you’re going to fly, check it out!

In October 2001, frequent flyer Matthew Daimler launched SeatGuru.com with a single color-coded interactive airplane seating chart. Having experienced firsthand the vast differences between airline seats, he was determined to collect this useful information and share it with other travelers. Over ten million visitors later, SeatGuru has enjoyed incredible success and has expanded to include more than 550 airplane seatmaps from more than 80 different airlines.

Wikitravel

Whenever you’re going somewhere, it doesn’t hurt to be a little prepared. Over at wikitravel you have the opportunity to do so, prepare. It is kind of wikipedia, just for traveling. You find useful hints & tips, places to go, things to see, information about where to eat and where you should sleep. As the information is added by fellow users, you never know the validity of all that’s written, but it gives you a good base for further exploration. And if you have some good tips? Add them!

Wikitravel

Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. So far we have 22,145 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe.