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Bad Trips - Paul Rigby - 19-11-2014
TripAdvisor: the funniest reviews, biggest controversies and best spoofs
After a Blackpool hotel "fined" a guest for leaving a bad review, we look back at the biggest controversies, and the most bizarre reviews from 15 years of TripAdvisor
A Blackpool hotel's controversial policy to charge guests up to £100 every time they leave a negative review on TripAdvisor (which has now reportedly been reversed) illustrates just how powerful the website has become since it launched almost 15 years ago.
More than 300 million travellers use it to research their trip each month, more than 115 new contributions are posted every minute, and hoteliers insist that a handful of reviews can make or break their business.
Before this week's case, hotels had already been caught out leaving fake and glowing, naturally reviews, bribing guests to write good ones, and leaving negative write-ups about their rivals.
Here we look at the best and worst of TripAdvisor since the first review was left in February 2000.
Quote:10 OF THE FUNNIEST REVIEWS
1) "Poo in the kettle"
2) "We got spewed on"
3) "Stay out - it's haunted"
4) "The owner kept trying to sell me the hotel"
5) "I didn't expect the cheese and onion pasties"
6) "Filthy as Dirty Den"
7) "Dead cockroach floating in my drink"
8) "I found a cat's paw in my pillow case"
9) "They prey on the tourists"
10) "Spoilt by spit"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hotels/11240430/TripAdvisor-the-funniest-reviews-biggest-controversies-and-best-spoofs.html