Was TripAdvisor ever reliable? I started looking at it a couple of years ago. I looked at reviews of places I have been and found that the reviews didn't even remotely resemble what I had seen with my own eyes. One guy complained about the Concierge Lounge at a Marriott EA I had been to. Said the service was bad. That Marriott doesn't have a Concierge Lounge. I saw enough of that kind of crap to where I never look at TA at all.