Thank you for your feedback.

We understand your concerns and do not intend to create a TA competitor. FlyerTalkers have different standards than the average TA user; you are more experienced and have a genuine interest in both luxury and quality. While the typical TA review may cater to a backpacker, family traveling on a dime, or recent grad touring Europe, FlyerTalk forums, and more specifically the luxury hotel forum, attract people looking to learn about, and share a unique experience. Our goal with this new product is to improve communication, legibility, and content within the forum.

We believe by making photos easier to add and cleaning up the design, you can more easily spark “interesting discussion[s]” amongst the community. Our biggest challenge, one that we are hoping to overcome, is creating a product that allows you to create a complex review, while also making it easy to read and share with your FT friends. Our headers are simply suggestions, and have been selected based on extensive FT hotel review research. We’ve found reviews with this breakdown to be very successful in creating conversation in the forums, as they cover a breath of information about a given hotel. We don’t intend to solicit this info to the average Joe, but feel we have an opportunity to strengthen the expert community. We want others with your similar expertise to participate in the conversation.

Please keep the feedback coming as the product is still in Beta, and if you have any more questions or concerns do not hesitate to shoot them my way!

Samantha Klein
Product Manager