Oct 9, 2017, 10:07 am
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FT Expert Hotel Reviews Issues
Please report your Expert Hotel Review issues here.
FAQ: Why did FlyerTalk add them"Expert Hotel Review" feature?
The (FlyerTalk) website has rolled out a new hotel guide in which its members rate and review hotels from around the world. FlyerTalk “soft-launched” its Expert Hotel Reviews feature earlier this fall, but is now talking about the effort publicly for the first time.
What’s behind the effort to add hotel reviews? Tarr (Jeremy Tarr, FlyerTalk's editorial director) says such information has long been posted to FlyerTalk over the years, but it typically has come in users’ “trip reports” that have sprung out of the site's frequent-flier focused origins.
“FlyerTalk has a ton of information from a lot of expert travelers who have flown all over the world and stayed at shocking numbers of hotels,” Tarr says. “A lot of that information is often buried in the forums. We wanted to organize it into something that it is much more accessible to a broader audience.”
USA Today, 21 Nov 2016 - link
What’s behind the effort to add hotel reviews? Tarr (Jeremy Tarr, FlyerTalk's editorial director) says such information has long been posted to FlyerTalk over the years, but it typically has come in users’ “trip reports” that have sprung out of the site's frequent-flier focused origins.
“FlyerTalk has a ton of information from a lot of expert travelers who have flown all over the world and stayed at shocking numbers of hotels,” Tarr says. “A lot of that information is often buried in the forums. We wanted to organize it into something that it is much more accessible to a broader audience.”
USA Today, 21 Nov 2016 - link
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Jul 2, 2018, 6:57 pm
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I WAY exceeded that in all of them. You might call mine SUPER detailed.
I added sections, wrote way over 2500 characters and added numerous photos.
Jul 3, 2018, 12:59 pm
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Jul 3, 2018, 1:08 pm
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Haha thanks. I was told that I was the first to receive the blue 25+ badge for any chain/group...and at least at the end of 2017, I was the only one on FT to earn that blue badge. Not sure it matters much to mods, though.
Jul 3, 2018, 2:49 pm
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Jul 4, 2018, 11:23 am
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Jul 25, 2018, 10:47 am
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Are you uploading directly from your mobile device or were they taken in landscape mode? If so, you might try getting them onto your computer/desktop and seeing if they appear normally.
Jul 25, 2018, 2:15 pm
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I’m emailing from mobile device to PC, then downloading from Gmail and uploading from there
Jul 26, 2018, 3:36 am
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I am trying to upload photos from my laptop to Expert Review, and get the following error message:
There was an error during the upload:
- Error while moving uploaded file to destination folder: check folder permissions on server side
AFAIK, my settings have not changed, and I didn't get this message before. Anyone know what might be the problem? I don't have this problem when uploading photos to "normal" FT messages.
There was an error during the upload:
- Error while moving uploaded file to destination folder: check folder permissions on server side
AFAIK, my settings have not changed, and I didn't get this message before. Anyone know what might be the problem? I don't have this problem when uploading photos to "normal" FT messages.
Jul 26, 2018, 11:31 am
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I am trying to upload photos from my laptop to Expert Review, and get the following error message:
There was an error during the upload:
- Error while moving uploaded file to destination folder: check folder permissions on server side
AFAIK, my settings have not changed, and I didn't get this message before. Anyone know what might be the problem? I don't have this problem when uploading photos to "normal" FT messages.
There was an error during the upload:
- Error while moving uploaded file to destination folder: check folder permissions on server side
AFAIK, my settings have not changed, and I didn't get this message before. Anyone know what might be the problem? I don't have this problem when uploading photos to "normal" FT messages.
Jul 26, 2018, 11:44 am
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Had you rotated the pictures in your phone's camera app? Did you take the photos in landscape and want them in portrait or vice-versa? I tested and the auto-rotation occurred on my PC (which then carried over to FT).
Jul 26, 2018, 11:44 am
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I tried both one and several (three and four) pics at the same time. In the end I answered the AY+ Forum nonsense thread, uploaded the pics there without any problems, copied the inline pics to the hotel review, and then deleted the nonsense reply. That seemed to do the trick.
Jul 26, 2018, 6:53 pm
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The issue is with the pictures I took in portrait orientation. They seem to get rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise when I go to post them.
Jul 27, 2018, 1:23 pm
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I've tested this just about every way I can think of. The only photos that rotated were ones I had edited on my phone to rotate 90 degrees already (so they ended up just reverting to what they'd originally been). Even then, it rotated on on PC, rather than FlyerTalk rotating it. I believe this is a device issue. Are you taking photos with iPhone or Android?