Oct 9, 2017, 10:07 am
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FT Expert Hotel Reviews Issues
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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 27, 2018, 3:23 pm
#151
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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?
Sep 4, 2018, 2:43 pm
#152
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A small follow up question, I'm not sure if it's correct to post here: I know for sure that my badge used to say Fairmont, but now it says AccorHotels. I know that AccorHotels bought Fairmont (and ruined its FPP), but in my opinion Fairmont deserves its own badge. (I'd rather burn the one labeled with AccorHotels than having it on my profile) Is it possible that I can get my old Fairmont badge back? (Pretty please?)
Sep 4, 2018, 2:45 pm
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Hi Joel
A small follow up question, I'm not sure if it's correct to post here: I know for sure that my badge used to say Fairmont, but now it says AccorHotels. I know that AccorHotels bought Fairmont (and ruined its FPP), but in my opinion Fairmont deserves its own badge. (I'd rather burn the one labeled with AccorHotels than having it on my profile) Is it possible that I can get my old Fairmont badge back? (Pretty please?)
A small follow up question, I'm not sure if it's correct to post here: I know for sure that my badge used to say Fairmont, but now it says AccorHotels. I know that AccorHotels bought Fairmont (and ruined its FPP), but in my opinion Fairmont deserves its own badge. (I'd rather burn the one labeled with AccorHotels than having it on my profile) Is it possible that I can get my old Fairmont badge back? (Pretty please?)
The badges are based on the program, and when one program absorbs another, like Accor with Fairmont or Marriott with SPG, the badges are consolidated as well.
Paul
Sep 4, 2018, 2:56 pm
#154
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Sep 4, 2018, 11:31 pm
#155
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Sep 5, 2018, 4:21 am
#156
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Sep 5, 2018, 6:51 am
#157
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It looks like I can change my batches displayed, and I can reduce from 2 to 1 as well. But if I select no badge, it defaults back to my previous selection. So I suspect you need to have a non-Accor badge if you want to unselect it because you cannot pick nothing.
Sep 5, 2018, 7:20 am
#158
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Dagnammit.
Oct 16, 2018, 4:47 pm
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It's not that big a deal really but if FT is going to bother having a hotel review section, then a basic function is for such reviews to show up on the master list to allow search functionality, otherwise we have to search for individual properties in individual threads which is not as convenient and not as user-friendly. That's the entire reason of being for the hotel review section, but right now if my reviews are not showing up on the master list, I suspect many reviews of other FTers are not going there either and that I am not an exception. So it appears as if it's not working as well as it should.
Oct 26, 2018, 12:34 am
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I made a reviews about the Ritz Carlton Abama a few days ago and it does not seeem to show up on the expert review map, nor have I received the abdge. Hence I second the abve statement, because something clearly does not seem to be working.
Oct 26, 2018, 10:22 am
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Oct 26, 2018, 1:20 pm
#162
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A bunch of my hotel reviews in the last couple of months have now made it correctly to the master map. ^
However there is still a minor issue under "your profile", then "map". Most of my recent reviews show up south of Ghana in the ocean rather than at the proper spot on the world map. So it appears as if the personal map and the master map are not linking properly.
However there is still a minor issue under "your profile", then "map". Most of my recent reviews show up south of Ghana in the ocean rather than at the proper spot on the world map. So it appears as if the personal map and the master map are not linking properly.
Oct 26, 2018, 1:39 pm
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A bunch of my hotel reviews in the last couple of months have now made it correctly to the master map. ^
However there is still a minor issue under "your profile", then "map". Most of my recent reviews show up south of Ghana in the ocean rather than at the proper spot on the world map. So it appears as if the personal map and the master map are not linking properly.
However there is still a minor issue under "your profile", then "map". Most of my recent reviews show up south of Ghana in the ocean rather than at the proper spot on the world map. So it appears as if the personal map and the master map are not linking properly.
Oct 26, 2018, 2:04 pm
#164
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After checking into this more in depth, a more correct description would be that what got fixed recently is that many hotel reviews are now counted for the badges, but unfortunately they are both wrong on the master map and the personal map. I previously thought the master map was ok, but it is not the case.
For example, please take a look at following hotels which I believe all fall south of Ghana on my personal map and are missing from the master map:
Fairmont Istanbul, Fairmont Amman, W Amman, DoubleTree Sukhumvit Bangkok, St.Regis Maldives, DoubleTree Doha, Courtyard Ottawa East, Homewood Suites Mont-Tremblant, Hampton Inn Ottawa Airport, Hilton Colombo.
For example, please take a look at following hotels which I believe all fall south of Ghana on my personal map and are missing from the master map:
Fairmont Istanbul, Fairmont Amman, W Amman, DoubleTree Sukhumvit Bangkok, St.Regis Maldives, DoubleTree Doha, Courtyard Ottawa East, Homewood Suites Mont-Tremblant, Hampton Inn Ottawa Airport, Hilton Colombo.