I know the mods and admins have their hands full with suggestions at the moment, but I think this would be a really fantastic addition to Holiday Truths. I would love to read restaurant and bar reviews on here.
I have seen it on another forum. Although that is just focussed on one town in Turkey so they just have a section on the forum for restaurants and one thread for each restaurant. I guess that would be too huge to do here, but a layout similar to the hotel reviews section might work?
I love being able to compile a list of places to eat before we go away somewhere.
go onto, say Tenerife...Gran Canaria sites and they have "BARS & RESTAURANTS: Member recommendations and Q&As" SECTIONS IN THEM IF YOU LOOK UP NEAR THE TOP
Yes, but then you have to scroll through loads of posts on one thread - and quite often about loads of different towns. It would be much easier if you could just click on the name of a restaurant and see all the reviews written for that particular place.
the problem with restaurants and bars is they change owners quite frequently so reviews may not be vaid for more than one season.
And speaking for just Costa Blanca and Tenerife, one annoying problem we encountered when we had topics for individual bars and restaurants in those forums is that they were misused by those connected with the establishments concerned. We regularly had fictitious reviews and recommendations posted from the same IP addresses in order to keep the topics active at the top of the page. That stopped when we changed the format to just one general topic, when posts then appeared to be mainly genuine questions and recommendations from real holidaymakers.
David
My understanding is that reviews for hotels cannot be posted from the resort. Could the same not apply to restaurant reviews?
Yes, but again referring to Costa Blanca and Tenerife, many of those owners had friends and family back in the UK to post the recommendations for them. One particular Tenerife bar/restaurant used to crop up every week, and it was the same UK based person using multiple identities to recommend it.
Ah, right. What a shame. I'll just have to use the other forum for the Turkish restuarant review then.
Just bear in mind that any other forum may be subject to the same fictitious reviews and recommendations as us, but may allow them to stand.
I have often added reviews there myself.
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