6 posts tagged tvtrip

I first heard about TVtrip.com when they launched last summer. The concept is to provide a hotel search engine that uses unbiased videos filmed by TVtrip. You check out the video, decide if you like the hotel, and then book. All for the TVtrip website.

Imagine this. While planning a vacation to an exotic location, you googled the web for the best hotel deals. and you found one. Just when you thought you found a great room at a great price, you got a real "surprise" when you checked in. You then realised the glossy, well angled shots from the hotel web site is all too deceiving.

TVtrip Features Nearly 5000 Hotel Videos April 24, 2008 in Accommodation, Hotels, News, Travel Miscellany, Videos, Websites, Worldwide | 2 comments   Have you ever been disappointed by a hotel room that didn’t live up to your expectations? Or found it difficult knowing which hotel to pick, due to lack of visuals and sufficient information?

Hotel video guides are a vertical that has started to grow from nothing in the last nine months. We covered Trivop in June 2007, a site billed as the first video guide for hotels. Then came TVTrip, another videoguide for hotels that scored $4.8 million in funding in July. Both sites rely on professionally recorded video.

TechCrunch has an article today about TV Trip, a new site that allows visitors to see videos of hotels and hotel rooms before they book. I was a bit skeptical of how useful this would be, but after seeing some of the videos, I think I'm sold. The difference between a live video and photographs for rooms is amazing.

TvTrip is offering a multimedia hotel guide with videos professionnally produced helping users choose better the hotels and even the rooms they will be staying at (read our initial review here). This startup hearquartered in Belgium with offices in Paris London and Singapour launched in June and is backed by 2 european VCs, Partech and Balderton.