David A.

The Philippines already has one of the slowest internet services in Asia, but PLDT Home - the main service provider - only makes it worse with its monopolistic practices and abysmal customer service. Their DSL services are unreliable, constantly dropping out, and absolutely impossible to upload files larger that a few MB. Pricing is amongst the highest in Asia for one of the poorest services. PLDT have a monopoly in many parts of the Philippines. But if there is any alternative where you live, take it, because it's hard to imagine any service could be worse than PLDT Home.

Lots of the reviews here are for hotels booked through TripAdvisor - not for TripAdvisor itself. My review is about the TripAdvisor website which is still the best travel website in the world for reading genuine reviews. Yes, there are a lot of fake reviews on TA as well (often written by unscrupulous competitors) - and maybe even some paid reviews - but if you read enough of the reviews, you will soon get a feel of what a particular hotel, resort or restaurant is like. Just ignore reviews that are over the top with praise (possibly paid or written by the establishment's staff) and reviews that are very nasty (often those are written by people who can never be pleased) and read the objective reviews in between. I've not found a website that provides a better opportunity to get an advance feel of a place because TA publishes all reviews (unlike some hotel booking and travel agent sites who won't publish bad reviews to protect their business). The only reason I've given TA four stars and not five is that I'm aware that a lot of people have had problems contacting them when they've had problems with bookings that they have made through TA. That really annoys me when you can't contact big companies, and all you get is an automated response. Personally I've never booked a hotel through TA because they are a third party. I always try and book direct with the hotel because then it's much easier to sort out any problems if they arise (although I do sometimes book through agoda or booking.com if they have significantly better prices that the hotel's website).

I've been with Squarespace since they were little more than a small start-up company. Yes, as other reviewers have pointed out, they are a bit pricey compared to other web builder/hosting companies, and their design tools do take some time to get used to, but their templates are very professional looking, and there are some really great looking websites on Squarespace. But the main reason I rate them 5 stars is their reliability and superb customer service. They helped me last year to transition from Squarespace 5 (the old platform) to Squarespace 7 (the current platform) most efficiently and with no downtime. Their web-building software is not for dummies like Weebly (I don't mean that as an insult because I also use Weebly for a very simple site that I have), but Squarespace has some superb design features once you get into it. For those who say it's difficult or confusing, I would guess they are not reading the tutorials that are on the Squarespace website. Once you've taken the time to go through those, it's nowhere near as difficult as it might first appear. I also use the Wix website builder. For a premium website, I wouldn't go past Squarespace. For a budget website, Weebly is fine. Wix is somewhere in the middle.