by Kirsty Fowler

Created on: October 22, 2009

As some of you know, this summer will be my 18th birthday, and since I was little, me and the rest of my family have always said, when this summer comes around we'll go on a special family with us all, and have the 'trip' of a lifetime. For years I have been fascinated by the likes of New York, Paris, Prague and even Australia and when it came down to planning this

trip, New York seemed to be the destination that we all liked the look of.

We are yet to book the holiday, mainly due to the fact, we have quite a small budget, and we really cannot seem to find a good hotel to stay in within our budget. We have found a few places that are within our budget, but then when I realised we want to know if it's a good hotel, I need to look at reviews. I had a quick look on Ciao, but only could find 3 reviews for this particular hotel we were looking at, then I put in the name of the hotel and reviews into Google and this website came up. Since then, I have barely been off it.

What is tripAdvisor?

TripAdvisor is a free site which features free travel information, it's main job is to host travel information in the way of reviews and much, much more, all of which is designed for you to plan your trip.

The website is completely free, and the reviews on the site are people's opinions, they get no revenue for them, they are just posting their opinions to make sure the user on the site has a good time on their trip, whether that is recommending that particular hotel, or not.

The site covers more than 212,000 hotels, 74,000 attractions and 30,000 destinations (these numbers were taken from Wikipedia so please don't quote me on this).

The site is probably the largest travel community on the net; it has been going for 9 years now as it began in February 2000, and it will make sure that you have the best trip possible and as nothing is biased or anything like that, you get the most honest reviews about the hotels or destinations ever.

The Website- Home Page

One of the most important things that I was taught in my web development class last year was that colours matter on a webpage. This site has managed to use under 3 colours and still is able to keep the webpage interesting.

The logo is a owl shape logo with tripadvisor next to it, this sticks out and I'm sure after being on this site, you will recognise this logo. The website is set out brilliantly. When you get onto the home page you will find many different things for you to do.

The first thing your eye is drawn to is the

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