Agreed with this advice used the same approach when heading to Austin for SXSW and made life much easier.
Lynn Terry
· 8 months ago
Great post! I just returned from my 2nd trip to Australia, and I used many of these tips myself. My social media connections have made travel more fun than ever - with personal recommendations, fun dinner meet-ups, tips from locals, etc. Twitter has played a big part in closing the gap, and making the world [feel] a whole lot smaller...
Tessa Horehled
· 8 months ago
No Couchsurfing props? It's an incredible resource.
As are local blogs which are easy to find by interest using a number of blog directories or bigger market-specific blogs like Gothamist, Not For Tourists, Metblogs, etc.
Dopplr also offers travel advice, FourSquare offers advice per location as suggested by friends, BlackBook iPhone app, AirportStatus for iPhone can be helpful when traveling a lot.
More: OffBeat Guides (integrated into Dopplr), Hitchsters, TripIt, etc
Ben Parr
· 8 months ago
Nice tips! Local blogs are great. And couchsurfing sites are cool indeed.
Tessa Horehled
· 8 months ago
I'd argue Couchsurfing.com is an invaluable resource for travelers -- ride shares, travel tips, couchsurfing (duh), flight deals, info about specific airports, resources, cities, etc, finding people who can help show you around, facilitate travel, and so forth. ;) It was also the very first travel social network and has over one million users.
Ethan2365
· 8 months ago
I've been hosting couchsurfers in Japan for 2 years, great experiences, amazing people. Only one surfer with an issue. Haven't seen flight deals on CS (did I miss something in the update?). 1 million users is a global movement.
Darwin
· 8 months ago
Great article.
For sharing your travel, http://www.tripntale.com is the best way to share your travel. And with the hard labor of mamy travelers sharing their photos and journals, you are sumply reaping the fruits of their efforts by virtually experiencing their trips
Joe Lazarus
· 8 months ago
For the early stage of deciding where to travel, I sometimes search Flickr Maps for tags like "vacation" and then zoom into countries I'm interested in...
It's a great way to explore travel destinations visually.
Simon
· 8 months ago
I can also recommend Travbuddy: http://www.travbuddy.com which has an active community. There are lots of CouchSurfers on there as well.
Perry Belcher
· 8 months ago
It's all about #3 for me. Another reason why Twitter is so great! You can always hear about everything first hand before you check it out for yourself.
I like the tips and surely i will use these tips when i go for trip and hope it will be a nice experience.
erichmiller
· 8 months ago
I can't wait to use these tips this year. We are thinking of visiting DC this spring and I will probably asking my Twitter friends about good places to stay/eat in the area.
Eugenio
· 8 months ago
Great Tip! One of the best application for user generated content (or "comments") is the one applied to travels! And with that long long tail of local communities, or specific kind of vacation... Guess what? I'm tryin' to do it... :)
Britta
· 8 months ago
This post is the exact reason why I started my blog. I want people to know and appreciate Vienna, Austria and I love giving tips about my adopted city!
Your comments are more and more, but also very exciting, very enjoy reading your opinions, can learn a lot of knowledge, for me, very helpful, I wish you good luck!
dagblakstad
· 8 months ago
Great tips, but it could be even better using GPS. I have Twibble on my N95 that can include my position in tweets. Maybe this even can be part of a business model for Twitter. It would be useful to search for tweets about a geographical location. Stores, restaurants and other interesting things for visitors could pay to be (profiled) in some sort of register so they can easily be found.
Lots of great ideas here. I'm putting together something like this for Highway 281. The highway that runs from Canada to Mexico. This info is very helpful. Thanks.
ed lester
· 8 months ago
We're working very hard to get TravelShout.com and TravelBookmarking.com in shape and to the stage where they can be considered really useful travel tools. A long way to go yet but improving and developing on a daily basis and would love to get feedback or thoughts from anyone who has attempted to use them.
ed lester
· 8 months ago
We're working very hard to get TravelShout.com and TravelBookmarking.com in shape and to the stage where they can be considered really useful travel tools. A long way to go yet but improving and developing on a daily basis and would love to get feedback or thoughts from anyone who has attempted to use them.
Tim Hurley
· 8 months ago
I go to Rio every year and love sharing tips on the city!
dagblakstad
· 8 months ago
A whole lot of useful stuff to check out here in this discussion, but none using http://earth.google.com/ That is almost unbelievable, or has it become passe?
SixteenDegrees
· 8 months ago
I agree with the earlier post about using Flickr. I often end up travelling to quite obscure places, so searching the placename as a tag, and then ordering the photos by date gives me an idea of the likely weather conditions.
I joined WorldVentures, a travel club. Like Costco, the company buys the rooms/cabins in bulk and then plans Dreamtrips for it's members. I went on a $79 3 night Bahamas cruise last summer (and no I didn't have to sleep in the life raft) IThe best part is that it's a network marketing company, so if you refer 6 people your club membership is free for life. Now THATS social networking.
Noah Lieske
· 6 months ago
Great post! Thank you. Noah Lieske
GoDaddy
· 6 months ago
The two sites I most frequent for travel research are Priceline and Bidlesstravel, which is, in fact, a so-called social media type of site. The fomer has amazing deals on cheap hotels, so long as you are willing to roll the proverbial dice and take what they give you when you bid is accepted; the latter is a Priceline bidding community that has a database to track historical bids, thereby giving you a range of accepted bids to help you determine the lowest possible bid Priceline will accepted.
My wife and I always seem to use tripadvisor when planning a vacation. We like to search blogs and forums to hear what people have to say. AtlasTravelWeb has a blog that gives great information and lists current deals. http://blog.atlastravelweb.com
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As are local blogs which are easy to find by interest using a number of blog directories or bigger market-specific blogs like Gothamist, Not For Tourists, Metblogs, etc.
Dopplr also offers travel advice, FourSquare offers advice per location as suggested by friends, BlackBook iPhone app, AirportStatus for iPhone can be helpful when traveling a lot.
More: OffBeat Guides (integrated into Dopplr), Hitchsters, TripIt, etc
For sharing your travel, http://www.tripntale.com is the best way to share your travel.
And with the hard labor of mamy travelers sharing their photos and journals, you are sumply reaping the fruits of their efforts by virtually experiencing their trips
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/vacation/map
It's a great way to explore travel destinations visually.
One of the best application for user generated content (or "comments") is the one applied to travels! And with that long long tail of local communities, or specific kind of vacation...
Guess what? I'm tryin' to do it... :)
Check out my blog at http://op-expat.com/ for insider tips about Vienna.
BTW I twittered about the conditions on a newly opened hotel at Norefjell, Norway last weekend to another tweeple staying there the next weekend: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=dagb+norefje...
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