Hi,

I am not really sure what I think about this new format. No, I have not tried it, yet, and I might give it a try, but I actually find that the trip reports work well the way they are. I like the flexibility, sometimes writing a lot, sometimes just a few sentences, not always feeling like posting a full "official" review like at TA. I am afraid that having such a fixed format might mean that some posters might feel that it is more of a job to write something and therefore will end up writing nothing. And also that our reviews will be more like TA reviews easy to find for "everyone using the internet" instead of helping out some friends in our little, private luxury hotel "club" (yes, I know there are many lurkers there as well, but I am posting for the regulars/my FT "friends"). I feel that a review often start interesting discussions where a certain experience is discussed in depth and explained further in the thread (and in PMs), something that might be lost if the review gets an official format. I write things in the TR at FT and in the threads following the TR that I would not write at TA for example because I feel it is not for everybody. FT is more complex, you have to know where to look for things, who to ask, how to search and I actually like it that way since it feels like it is not for everybody.

I guess this comes down to me wondering what the higher goal of FT regarding this new format is: Will it be marketed in any way? Do you want to be a TA competitor? Do you want more readers/members? Have the FT luxury hotel posters asked for this? Or someone else?

Just some questions while I think about this a little more.