Travelblog's view of the Maldives

http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Maldives/blogs-page-2.html

As I was surfing through various sites searching for travel blogs about the Maldives, travelblog caught my attention as it I would refer to it to find out whether these islands are a worthy destination for my next vacation.

Travelblog is an easily accessible website that offers insight about what tourists liked and disliked about their vacation. You can type in your dream destination and in just one click receive hundreds of opinions by people who have already visited the Maldives. However, it is up to you to decide whether to believe them or not, whether their opinions matter, or better yet, to find a blog worth reading. In fact, out of all the blogs I read on the website about the Maldives, only a few were truly worth my time.

Countless spelling and grammar mistakes impregnated the website, as a blogger can truly write whatever he wishes. Several bloggers are not native English speakers, which would justify their poor writing skills, however, it would only take a spell check to correct all those grammar errors.

However, even though certain entries are not interesting nor well written, several others can truly help a traveler realize aspects of the Maldives he had not previously thought about.

I went to the Maldives this winter, and therefore I can easily relate to the experiences of all of the bloggers: reaching the island takes forever, however it is absolutely worthless to specify every detail of the journey. I particularly enjoyed the pictures posted by the bloggers, in particular those by Stephanie Wandke (http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Maldives/blog-217861.html), as they illustrate beautiful sceneries and sunsets that are the primary reason why one would choose the Maldives as their destination.

Although I enjoyed reading how these bloggers shared the same experience of excitement and relaxation upon their arrivals at the islands, often times I found myself wondering why a person feels the need to include boring details of their plane ride and delays in their connecting taxi-boat rides. When a blogger clicks on a website to search for comments by others who have already gone to the Maldives, he is not looking for a description of everything that went wrong in the time frame that includes the blogger shutting his front door to his arrival to destination. Perhaps, the reader would find more useful to know whether he should reserve a particular room on the island, which rooms have a better view, or the fact that he should bring bug repellant or very high sun screen if his skin is “mozzarella” white.

The worst blogger I found on this subject at this site is “Kay,” a girl who wrote a blog entry a day filled with her pictures ina bikini that included absolutely no useful information. How she chose the Maldives as her destination is certainly none of our business, and will never interest a person reading this site. Everyone has their original story and are reading these entries to find out whether the place they chose as their destination truly suits them. I doubt an entry a day about a place such as the Maldives, which is made of beautiful resorts, will ever help a traveler to find out more information about his next trip.

I believe that ideally a blogger who spends time writing on this site should take the time to include weather conditions, specific islands one should visit, what one should bring in order for his journey to be more pleasant and comfortable, and what one should hope to gain from his vacation (such as relaxation or simply a wonderful tan or cultural knowledge).