Originally Posted by CMK10

I've found that it's quite helpful for hotels. With the exception of a few places, Flyertalk can have little to no information on a surprising amount of hotels, even among the big chains. I tend to focus on the 2-4 star reviews and 5 star reviews by Top Contributors only.

When I'm looking at dining it's one of several websites (UrbanSpoon, Yelp, Google) I'm using to determine how a place might be. I also write for them, I have 109 reviews I believe.