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14 January,2010 08:34 AM IST |   |  Kasmin Fernandes

What began as a renegade alternative to Lonely Planet's Thorn Tree Message Board evolved over time into one of the best India Travel portal sites on the Internet


India Mike
https://www.indiamike.com/

What began as a renegade alternative to Lonely Planet's Thorn Tree Message Board evolved over time into one of the best India Travel portal sites on the Internet. The site now has over 200,000 posts and over 9,900 members. It is also one of the largest repositories of India travel images on the Internet.

The magic all happens through thousands of members, who share a common interestu00a0-- love for travelling in India. Use it to learn about destinations, getting around, planning an itinerary. Meet-ups happen around the world with members of this site, and it's not uncommon to run into another member while on the road.

India Hotel Review
https://www.indiahotelreview.com/
Awarded Best Travel Website of 2008 by MetrixLab, a Europe-based global online market research company, India Hotel Review is a simple and easy-to-use hotel booking portal and online travel community. Destinations on the directory are usually listed only after company folk visit. As an independent resource focused solely on comfort and convenience of guests, IHR's hotel ratings are based on unfiltered reviews by vacationers. The "Booking Engine" has added features like "room availability in coming days" and single click filters to filter hotels as desired. They are also running a section that helps medical tourists and their relatives.

Trip Advisor
https://www.tripadvisor.in/
A friendly and relaxed community filled with unscripted and honest conversations between travellers, TripAdvisor has travel guides, user reviews and information on over 400,000 locations. The sister site in India (https://www.tripadvisor.in/) puts emphasis on desi destinations. Apart from the obligatory reviews of hotels and attractions, it has some nifty features. Users can quickly and easily post their vacation videos. There are personalisation tools to save hotel, restaurant, or attraction reviews to personal "My Trips" folders. Travellers can customise and expand their plans by adding maps, photos, their own notes and travel plan details. With "Check Rates", you can check hotel pricing and availability across multiple vendor commerce sites.
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