Trip Advisor, however, Ronald makes an excellent observation!  There are 'complaints' posted that seem unwarranted, or exagerated.

Fodors is a good source and I check Zagat .

Hi, Rick,

I was invited to contribute reviews to Raveable, because I do a lot of that on my travel blog.  I believe you need to be a travel blogger.  If you are, you can grab some code at their website to insert in your blog posts that will create a "Featured Blog on Raveable" badge, which their search engines will pick up and they will pull your content into their site.  Make sense?   Here's an example from the Las Vegas section:

http://www.raveable.com/nv/las-vegas/blog-badges/l4839

It's destination-specific, so you'll want to grab the badge code for whatever area you're writing about (again, US only).

I hope that helps!

Gray

Although the GuestBook entry information on this site is new and doesn't have many entries yet, I love it! When I am looking for a specific IHG review, I check that first. Other sites I use in addition to TripAdvisor are flyertalk and oyster reviews. Another trick is Google maps. Just enter the location of where you will be visiting on Google maps, then enter what you are researching, such as "hotels" or "restaurants." When the site returns all the locations, it also includes reviews from many different sources.

Probably because flytalk is not as user friendly as some of the others... I've added Raveable to my bookmarks ~ thanks for that site, which I did not have!