TripAdvisor & Windward House

Camden Windward House B&B has many “excellent” ratings on TripAdvisor. Here is a link to our review page on TripAdvisor. Although we strive to make our guests feel at home, we try not to scrutinize the TripAdvisor website too closely. While we originally did not ask our guests to review us, because we were skeptical of the TripAdvisor method, since so many people use it, we now ask our guests to review us online so that the reviews reflect our guests’ experiences. What is TripAdvisor? TripAdvisor is a website where people can register and leave a review of a lodging they have stayed at. The shortcomings of TripAdvisor is that they don’t verify the information given by the reviewer or the identity of the reviewer. This leaves a great deal of room for abuse. Also, the driving force behind TripAdvisor is not to “get the truth and go” but rather, to generate a profit. One way they profit is revenue from online reservations made from their website. So if you rely on TripAdvisor, take their motto with a grain of salt, -, the truth is never as obvious as all that. For instance, they let you search for lodgings by location. However, the listings you get are not by the nearness of the location. Rather, those at the top of the list will be those who have agreed to pay the highest commissions on bookings. So you may think you are going to be right at the center of town, when, in fact, the “Camden Maine” lodging you found is actually in Northport. For information about traveling to Camden, as well as maps and links showing exactly where you want to be in Camden Village, check out our Travel to Camden pages, or just plain, Google Map it! to see if you will be strolling down a treelined street surrounded by the warm glow of evening lights of the historic homes of Camden Village, and the cottage gardens and trellises of the local homes, or driving in the pitch blackness to a place you vaguely remember. I know we’re biased in this regard, but we also have traveled extensively, and have always preferred staying in the Village, as opposed to at a distance.

We also encourage our guests to log in to this site and leave their comments about the many posts on our site. If you have stayed here, register and leave a comment. If you haven’t but wish to comment on the usefulness of the website, or tell us what your travel plans were, something about your tour, please leave a comment. We encourage guests to leave a comment about the room they stayed in, the places they ate, the things they enjoyed doing, and also suggest ideas for future posts and stories on our site.

We offer these observations when using TripAdvisor:

• check to see if a lodging frequently has many reviews entered on the same date. That might indicate that a single individual is entering them in batches, rather than unique travelers actually reviewing the establishment.
• Do the reviews sound phony?

One of our guests favorite things about Windward House is its proximity to the Village center and the harbor.

• Be careful searching for lodgings by town. Our experience is that many lodgings that state they are “Camden” lodgings are really from towns nearby, so if you expect to walk from your lodging, you may be very surprised when you check in.

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