Comments on: RealTravel Trip Planner: Cut, Paste & Share Travel Tips

By: LvYouZhe

LvYouZhe — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:29:00 +0000

Does anyone know about TripGarden.com? They seem to have everything about travel… in Simplified Chinese though.

By: Position2

Position2 — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:45:06 +0000

sam Daams,You just made a point here.

I have found Holiday IQ very useful for planning my vacations in India. I often check their reviews on hotels & resorts before selecting the place to stay.

By: Shruti

Shruti — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:37:22 +0000

Sam Daams,

You just made a point. hehehehe

I have found Holiday IQ fairly informative. I often refer it for planning my vacations in Indian. Specially for deciding the place to stay , the reviews for various hotels & resorts by real travellers come in very handy. Hope you’ll also add it to you list of favourites.

By: Sam Daams

Sam Daams — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:29:50 +0000

It’s definitely a neat feature and realtravel seems to be a pretty good site, but I don’t really see what the huge deal is. To echo some of the other sentiments, they’re fairly similar to a lot of other sites out there, most of which have set up with nothing. 1 million dollars to set up is not lean, certainly not for this type of business and considering the technical side is not really that sophisticated….. What realtravel has been really good at though is promoting themselves. They must have a professional team in place spreading the word, probably even a larger team in this area than in terms of development. When they had only just started up, with features that dozens of other sites out there had been touting for years, articles started popping up all over the place by (obviously not very well researched and generally traditional media outlet journalists) about how great, innovative and useful the site was…. if they had looked a bit further than the press release in front of their nose they would have found a whole legion of sites doing this and similar things that deserved similar credit. It looks to me like they are just trying to maximize potential for a bigger buy out/investment round soon, much as Nick mentions. I have nothing against that and wish them all the best with that, but there are tons of other great sites out there that deserve the same attention!

Some of my personal favs are travelblog.org and travelpod.com, but the mylifeoftravel.com site mentioned by Sebastian also seems really good. Don’t get me wrong, realtravel.com is a good site and they do their niche well, but there’s no need for all the hot air…. then again, maybe that’s Web 2.0 defined

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Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:35:48 +0000

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By: Sebastian Fernando

Sebastian Fernando — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:36:25 +0000

Hi Nick,

I’ve used RealTravel in the past but I found it very slow, messy and not in sync with technology. (altough it was 7 months ago…) My friends introduced me to a different web site which actually does the same but includes really cool mapping features including dynamic route plan. During the 7 months I’ve been with them they manage to significantly increase their number of users and they don’t advertise as much. The site is: http://www.mylifeoftravel.com

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Top 5 Killer New Travel Sites at Ministry of Tech — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:24:05 +0000

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By: Michael Bu

Michael Bu — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:35:02 +0000

If you can read Chinese, there’s one similar site targeting the Chinese community: http://www.yododo.com/

By: Giftpile.com Honeymoon Registry

Giftpile.com Honeymoon Registry — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:02:39 +0000

I think I still like Gusto! Grabber – they say they’re “the ultimate travel planning tool” – They have a demo which is pretty persuasive! It shows you how you can grab and collect travel info from around the web for your travel planning.

http://www.gust...m/gusto_grabber

By: Bessed

Bessed — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:39:43 +0000

RealTravel.com…

What are the best sites for RealTravel.com? We’ve started with these. What else should be here?
1. RealTravel – The MySpace of travel? Find travel advice and share travel experiences with other users. Includes a trip planner and free travel blog. (w…

By: Bessed

Bessed — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:25:57 +0000

RealTravel.com…

What are the best sites for RealTravel.com? We’ve started with these. What else should be here?
1. RealTravel – Likened to the MySpace of travel, here you can find travel advice and share travel experiences with other users. Includes a trip planner a…

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:44:37 +0000

I prefer http://www.tripmates.com- it’s more of a social network than RealTravel. You can actually find people to meet up with on a trip- in addition to sharing travel content and asking one of their Trip Guru’s for tavel advice (which came in handy for my trip to Paris). They also have a cool group travel feature called Tripvite- like evite for group trips.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:56:10 +0000

A year to develop with $1 million in angel funding? That’s lean?

Check out this alternative, built in the same timeframe with Zero funding whatsoever:

http://www.blogabond.com/

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Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:43:29 +0000

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Retire Young and Wealthy » Blog Archives » Big Goals — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:40:22 +0000

[...] Techcrunch reports on a travel website RealTravel. Last year they received $1 million in funding. The blogging platform performs like any other blog (RSS included) except you catagorize by location and type (if it’s a review or not) before you write up the entry. You can’t drop drop images directly in a post, but instead associate some photos with it via an image gallery. You can print these photos out later using Qoop. Readers can comment on posts or leave questions in RealTravel’s location specific forums. [...]

By: aaron

aaron — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:57:19 +0000

Granted I dont have any users except myself and a few friends, but I built this in a couple months on a shoestring – http://www.braveorbit.com – for travelblogging. You can check out my blog at http://www.brav...px?Author=aaron

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mobmash blog » Blog Archive » links for 2006-10-14 — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:20:53 +0000

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By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:50:36 +0000

Great site. I’m also a big fan of the grassrootsy-ness of http://www.EuroCheapo.com. They’ve been around forever.

By: Nick Gonzalez

Nick Gonzalez — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:43:03 +0000

Yahoo! travel is a great service, but I saw RealTravel as being different. RealTravel has tighter categorization and integration than Yahoo!’s Travel Service, which keeps journals separated from reviews and most of the journal content in the trip plan section. RealTravel is a user generated guide, whereas Yahoo! focuses on user reviews of items in their database. As to the journals, Yahoo! doesn’t expose individual posts, but lets you to read entire journals instead.

TravBuddy looks cool. It seems to have more social features than RealTravel. Accoding to alexa it looks like they started around somewhat the same time, with RealTravel a little earlier.

By: Mike,

Mike, — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:23:10 +0000

Perfect combination between user content and editors choices from the web and other resource!

(Steven commenter 7, Lonely-planet guides are also included at real travel so how deep more could they be…?!
also you can combine lonely planet with this great new feature.

Yahoo travel and others mentioned here, do not really live much chance to small places, or small tips cause they can not sell you expensive hotels, ordered commission from them etc. so the important information from the street or the travel experiance never really arrives.

Mike
http://www.NiceFlatinRome.com

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:15:49 +0000

Amit, I don’t – but we’re a bootstrapping start up – the only travel these days is for business but I do really like how there’s user driven content on there with more than likely tips and recommendations for when I actually do get to have fun travel.

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:06:34 +0000

Am I the only one that doesn’t use an online travel planner? I just chose the best deals from yahoo farechase and move on.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:33:52 +0000

This is off topic, but I get so many ideas when I read TechCrunch and this article is an example, thank you. You’re like drinking a shot, whereas business week (which always seems to spark that in me too) is more like having to down the whole beer.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:30:05 +0000

I like Travelpost better (www.travelpost.com)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:13:03 +0000

Looks like a more professional version of wayn.com (Where Are They Now).