TVTrip.com — Hotel videos

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then one second of 24-frame-per-second video is worth... hold on, let me find my calculatory... 24 x 1,000 = 24,000 words.

And one minute of video = 60 x 24,000 = 1,440,000 of them.

But don't take my word for it.

Have a look here instead.

From Christina Talcott's review in this past Sunday's Washington Post Travel section: "... when it comes to hotels, most sites show only photos. How 20th century!

"TVTrip.com one-ups the others, with videos shot in and around hotels. When it launched in 2007, the site had 2,000 videos — which it shoots on location and produces in-house — from North American and European cities. The number has since ballooned to more than 10 times that....

"All the videos are in the same style, which helps viewers see the differences among hotels: There are shots of the exterior, the lobby, different types of rooms (from standard to deluxe), as well as restaurants and gyms, with New Agey, techno or jazzy soundtracks. The site includes shot after shot of neatly made beds, tasteful hotel bars and — key for solo female travelers — the surroundings, showing whether there's a potentially seedy park across the street or a noisy club next door."

Fair warning: There goes the day.

Send me a postcard.