When you reach your adult life you stop caring about what other people think about yourself. It’s fine to carve your own path through life without having to worry about how other people feel about you, but it is useful to know what people feel about, say, other things.
And this is especially true when it comes to spending your money. Sure enough, you’re your own man or woman and you can do research yourself and find good deals or excellent stuff out there. But there’s no excuse not to listen to what other people have to say about things. Especially when you don’t necessarily need to know them or be talking to them directly.
Any decent website will have a comments section where you can learn what others feel about the product their selling, be it a package for holidays in Gran Canaria, a super effective hair dryer or just a piece of jewelry. Speaking of holidays, you can also find out what people feel about hotels or specific airline companies online.
For example, I recently flew with this particularly terrible airline company that cuts corners everywhere. It was a nightmare of a ride, nothing short of making us ride the plane standing or having to cook our own meals – we would have to if we wanted to, since they didn’t really offer a meal, not even if you paid for it. Later on I found a comments section on a traveling website that talked about someone’s experience, and it was very similar to mine. If only I had found that out before I could have avoided all of that.
The same thing goes for hotels. Hotel descriptions can be very misleading. I recently found a hotel that advertised itself as being “5 minutes from the city center” and “in a nice neighborhood”. Looking at the comments section in the hotel booking website I was using made me realize that it was actually 5 minutes from a bus station that would lead you to the city center, and that the place wasn’t nice at all.
It was also thanks to the comments of strangers online that I found my cheap Canaries Holidays from OnTheBeach. I would honestly never have looked twice at that website, if I even found it, if it weren’t for someone talking about how they one time decided not to use it and regretted it terribly. I now use it for all my travel bookings.
