Do Your Best At Travel Social Networks

March 20th, 2008 Olga Pizza

Searching for info about various places, some people need detailed reviews, others just want to know that this place is really cool, there are also people who prefer to travel to unknown. The following sites provide all the above mentioned types of travelers with useful and interesting things. So, let’s check them.

Travellerspoint

This site really offers a lot, but if you need some special advice, visit its forum. It is rather easy to search and navigate. As a rule, tips are general, such as “Have a nice trip!” or “The best hotels in Paris are…” without any reviews. But all this is true till some travel Guru answers your question. So, leave a post, so that people can communicate with you via the message center, because promotional links in posts are not available (but this rule doesn’t work for the above mentioned Respected Members). Travellerspoint also offers some helpful travel tools, such as booking tickets or apartments.

Globosapiens

If you are interested in learning more about some country, just visit this page. There you will find various articles concerning any country or city you want to visit. But this information is rather general, such as the best places to visit or the history of the country. If you need more details, for example, what hotels you can afford or where to rent a car in some region, post your question in forum. But don’t wait for many answers, just search forum for the related topics, where you will be able to find tips and interesting links.

Virtualtourist

This site is the best for those who really appreciate the opinion of other people. Especially if they have already visited interesting places or use the necessary kind of transport in some country. All you need to do is to search for key phrase or destination. Thus, looking for information about “Hotels Paris” you will be able to read reviews of people who have already been there. They may be negative or positive, including prices and photos of various hotels. Addresses and information concerning the sites where you can learn more also available. The same thing is concerning any topic. Whether you are looking for transport in Nice or things to do in Lion. But don’t forget to check the data of the review

Travbuddy

“Find travel partners by destination.” This can be a motto of this site. You can search by destination and start to communicate with people who also want to travel the country you are interested in. Or he even may live there. Forum is the other opportunity to find like minded people, learn something new and just have a good time. Pay attention that this site is rather for communication and having a good time, than for getting necessary information immediately.

Bootsnall

A lot of blog posts, but still you can find the necessary information searching for some key phrase. Forum is rather useful for everyone. Though at the beginning it seems to be complicated. Just start searching for something and you will make sure that this site is user-friendly. Here you also can find reviews. On the whole, this site resembles travbuddy, but perhaps, it is more “official” in a way.

Of course, there are a lot of various travel social sites. I offer just some of them. So, what is your favorite travel community?

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Traveling Solo Again?

March 4th, 2008 Olga Pizza

Sometimes this questions seems to be really depressing. And even if you adore to have a rest alone, it is just necessary to tell someone “What a wonderful sunset (dinner, museum, life)!”

So, if you don’t have enough reasons to travel alone, just look for them in my next post… or read the following advice. Nowadays there are a lot of various communities which offer to find the like-minded people for travels to the places you both dreaming about. Isn’t it too strange to find someone via Internet in order to spend a vacation? Just learn pros and cons of such an adventure and draw a conclusion.

Pros	Cons
You can find like-minded people and feel secure while traveling to some unknown but so desirable country.	Let’s start from “feel safety”. Nobody can guarantee you that your neighbor is the kindest person on this planet, even if you have known him for ages. So, what can be said about some strange person you will see at first (photos and phone calls are not included)? Of course, it doesn’t mean that you should reject to travel in such a way, but don’t forget to leave some contacts (where you are going, with whom and for how long) to the above mentioned neighbor.
You won’t feel lonely during the whole journey. As we know, people are sociable beings, so communicate to your heart’s content.	Sometimes it is necessary to share accommodation with other person. Of course, there is nothing horrible, but everything depends on your mood.
You can choose the community in accordance with your age (for example, 40+), sex (women only) and types of activity as well as the countries you prefer.	Think twice what type of company you prefer to join. Is it really interesting for you to communicate only with women of the same age? In any case, try to communicate with the people you are going to travel with via email or forum charts.
You can share your thoughts and impressions and don’t need to eat alone. Don’t you agree that sometimes it is just essential for us?	Joining some community you have to follow some rules. In other words, you are not able to change your route, if, for example, you decide to stay in Florence for another couple of days when your company is going further.

And of course, let’s not forget about the prices. The membership in such community will cost you $14.95 a month or $134.00 annually approximately. But whether you take advantage of their services depends only on you.

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