Raveable.com - love to get your feedback

Folks,

I've been hard at work with my team at raveable.com in a site-wide refresh to reflect on the feedback we got since our launch early May 2009. We are not done yet and I would love to get your input on the site and any thoughts on how to improve. Also you are welcome to blog about us if you think your readers will find the site useful.

In case you wonder what raveable is all about, let me touch briefly on what problem we are trying to solve: We believe, from personal experience, that the process of finding a hotel for the next trip is frustrating and time consuming. Hotel reviews are a great source of information but they are scattered in many sites beside there are thousands of them. Travelers feel obligated to skim through hundreds of lengthy reviews with inconsistent recommendations from one review to another before they make up their mind. Raveable indexes all reviews from top tier hotel reviews sites and analyzes them for what's good and what's bad. To give you an example, here is a scorecard for Bellagio Las Vegas based on 4329 reviews from 6 sources. You can also check the Best Hotel in Las Vegas collection to see the hotel ranking across the city (updated monthly).

The analysis on the scorecard is supported by hundreds of review excerpts that you can browse and check for yourself.

Saving travelers time and make the process of researching hotels quick and easy is our goal.

You be the judge. I welcome your feedback and thoughts...

Thanks,
Rafik - Raveable.com co-founder & CTO

Tags: hotels, raveabe, reviews

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Comment by Vera Marie Badertscher on September 3, 2009 at 4:35pm: I think your concept is great. I gave it a test by looking at my home town, Tucson. I really don't understand your rankings, as some 5 star hotels are under 2 * hotels. There is no way that a La Quinta should outrank La Paloma Resort for instance. I would approach your results with caution, but think it is a great idea to consolidate ratings. Maybe the various rating systems are just too different to give consistent results?

Comment by Neva Peykov on July 29, 2009 at 2:18pm: Hi Rafik,
I normally don't blog about the USA as I'm not an expert but I liked your website and the concept, so I'm tweeting you :)

Comment by Rafik Robeal on July 21, 2009 at 1:10am: Hi Warren,

Thanks a lot for you kind words. I am really interested to get your feedback and the areas that you think needs improvement. I'd love to get together sometime. It is great to meet in person for sure... I am in redmond, very close to MS campus .. let's sync up over email (mine is rafik at raveable dot com).

Thanks!
Rafik

Comment by Warren Talbot on July 20, 2009 at 8:37pm: Hi Rafik,
I love your site and your concept. Just yesterday I started planning a 2 week road trip from Seattle to Colorado and was wondering the best resource to find hotels. Now I no longer have to worry and will be diving in tomorrow to Raveable.com to find our hotels along the way. I look forward to being an avid user and contributor. Please let me know if there is anything else we can do to help.

Also, if you ever want to get together for a drink we would love to meet a fellow traveler and entrepreneur (especially since we share the MS bond).

Great site!