Sometimes, the most stressful part of any vacation is finding a good
budget hotel. We've all been there before, you book a hotel online only
to get there and find out it looks nothing like what you were
expecting. You want to back out, but it's too late - all that's left to
do is cross your fingers that the sheets were changed.

A startup company called Trivop is
looking to change all that. They call themselves "The First Videoguide
for Hotels" and they are forming a network of travelers with digicams
and camcorders, and encouraging them to film their hotels and upload
footage.

At the time of this posting, they have 194 hotels in Europe in their database, but they hope to expand around the world quickly.

(As a sidenote - they're hiring! They're based in Paris and secretly I'm dying to apply!)

The Chick Traveler