Trusted reviewers + dynamic review weighting. For example, so many times, some super crappy tourist trap or restaurant is rated very highly. Upon entering the restaurant, that Sysco smell is blatantly obvious: this place sucks. Being able to follow certain reviewers and have ratings recalculated according to my preferences would help people with less travel dollars get to experience more.
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There is always going to be people gaming the system.
Not only that places close down or change ownership and/or management. What may have been great one week may be awful the next and vice versa.
Agreed. I could have stated that more clearly. I mean specific reviewers with whose opinion I align. For example, maybe a bunch of people think a certain sandwich shop is garbage. But I think their sandwiches are my platonic ideal. I happened to notice that SandwichLover666 also thinks these sandwiches are perfect. I would like to see an adjusted review scores based on a preference for SL666's places.
My ideal method of travel would be to see a list of all destinations I can get to for less than a certain amount of money. If that means taking 3 layovers (or even chaining 3 different flights) that's fine. It would also be nice if it were aware of various deals available such as Chase's periodic 10% off Southwest flights or United's "Excursionist" perk.
I very rarely want to travel to a specific location, in lieu of allocating a certain amount of money to travel and seeing where that gets me.
Would this for you include accomodation? And do you think you'd prefer a lot of control over that or just a general view? Like a searchpage that has a budget, a starting location and a departure and return date. This would return only the places where the train/bus/flight + hostel/hotel would fit in the budget.
Doesn't necessarily have to include room and board. I can generally find something reasonable anywhere I've been.
I don't even need a specific departure date, just departure location.
This would be awesome. Cheapest place I can go on date x from n location.
Like the other guy said doesn't need to include hotel stays etc , just traveling to that location.
Privacy.