How is Oyster different from TripAdvisor?
Our reviewers use a consistent set of criteria to ensure they apply the same standards to each hotel. TripAdvisor relies on the opinions of a community of semi-anonymous users with inconsistent, undisclosed, and unreliable expectations. On any given TripAdvisor hotel page, you can usually find 50 people who thought it was the greatest place they’d ever stayed and 50 others who wouldn’t send their worst enemy there. As an example, take the Delano Hotel in Miami. TripAdvisor’s Delano page contains more than 190 reviews reflecting about as many opinions. Reports appear in reverse chronological order; little attention has been paid to the relevance of any particular review. TripAdvisor’s photo coverage of the Delano contains about 79 photos of inconsistent quality. Oyster, on the other hand, offers one clear, expert review of the Delano that’s divided into digestible sections averaging 210 words apiece. And our photo coverage blows other online sources out of the water; the Delano page con
Our reviewers use a consistent set of criteria to ensure they apply the same standards to each hotel. TripAdvisor relies on the opinions of a community of semi-anonymous users with inconsistent, undisclosed, and unreliable expectations. On any given TripAdvisor hotel page, you can usually find 50 people who thought it was the greatest place they’d ever stayed and 50 others who wouldn’t send their worst enemy there. In addition, the scope and quality of TripAdvisor’s user photos are inconsistent. Oyster, on the other hand, offers one clear, expert opinion. And our photo coverage blows other online sources out of the water; we offer extensive, high-quality photos for every property, organized into logical albums.
