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We Are Not Making This Up

December 20, 2006 at 2:30 PM | 0 Comments

TripAdvisor, the travel ratings site you love to love for what it is, but love to hate for the fake insider reviews that sometimes plague it (Great service! Great room! 6 out of 5 stars!), has launched a blog. And it's actually pretty awesome. The name of the blog is "We Are Not Making This Up," and accordingly, the bulk of December's dispatches so far are reposts of ridiculous emails and review submissions the site has received. We like this one:

From an e-mail to TripAdvisor support:

Do you mean to tell me I can not get hockey information on your site.

The hell? For some reason, we love it when question marks are swapped for periods. It always makes things funnier. There's also a letter from a hotel staffer in defense against a reviewer's claim that he rented them a dirty room. He insists his hotel never gives guests dirty rooms, but also says they sometimes forget to clean rooms, and then go ahead and rent those out anyway. And the difference is...?

Yes, we're pretty surprised at how much this is making us laugh so far. Props to TripAdvisor to having the balls to make fun of its users, albeit only the clearly crazy ones.

Related Stories:
· TripAdvisor: We Are Not Making This Up [Official Site]
· Let's play Ask the Hotelier. Do you ever rent out dirty rooms, Mr. Hotelier? [WANMTU]
· We bet HockeyAdvisor.com doesn't know a darn thing about hotels, either [WANMTU]