Oyster.com Helps Travel Agents Find Better Hotels, Faster: Expert Reviews, Verified Facts, Undoctored Photography

NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The internet is saturated with cleverly-disguised resources for travel agents, but only Oyster Hotel Reviews (www.oyster.com) provides a comprehensive, detailed collection of unbiased, professional reviews and un-doctored photos of the world's hotels. With more than 600 hotels reviewed and 200,000 pictures at their fingertips, travel agents benefit from a website that doesn't build business relationships with the hotels it reviews - offering an impartial, journalistic breath of fresh air to the internet-savvy agent.

While Expedia, Orbitz and similar travel sites are good marketing and sales platforms for hotels, they're unreliable resources for travel agents. In contrast, Oyster's expert reviewers stay at each hotel anonymously, thoroughly evaluate and verify all of its features, and take hundreds of photos of everything from the stains on the carpet to the parties at the pool. The reviews on the site are even more reliable than popular travel guides like Fodor's, who often leverage their status to book for free, giving hotels the opportunity to prepare for the visit.

"Travel agents rely on repeat customers; providing clients with all of the information they need up front ensures travelers aren't unpleasantly surprised when they reach their destination," said Elie Seidman, co-founder and CEO of Oyster Hotel Reviews. "Oyster's reviews are game-changing. Travel agents no longer have to sift through pages and pages of online marketing materials. Instead, they can get straight to the crux of each and every hotel, based on content from a professional staff with no agenda beyond reporting accurate, useful information."

Oyster's reviews take every important detail into account - from guest interviews to onsite restaurant reviews, interactions with staff to bathroom grout, and amenities to comparative pricing data. The site's editors also award select hotels in a broad range of categories and create "best of" lists that can give helpful suggestions for travel agents looking to book romantic getaways, budget-friendly family vacations, spring break hotspots, and more specialized trips for clients. Also, since Oyster reviewers take the entire hotel into account and bring its atmosphere and style to life in their reviews,  it can be easier for travel agents to find hotels that best match their clients' personalities and interests.

Searching Oyster.com is quick and simple, too; travel agents can filter search results not only by price and location, but also by amenities such as a kids' club, poolside cabanas, a swim-up bar, and over 50 other verified features. In addition, Oyster.com offers GPS-coded data on all its hotels, including those in the Caribbean that don't have street addresses. Using the GPS data, agents can see exactly where a hotel is located on a map, how far it is from the airport, golf courses, beaches, local attractions, or any other points of interest.

In addition, Oyster's Travel Guides offer deep insights on not only the notable attractions in each destination, but also the relative pros and cons of staying in a particular neighborhood, city, or island. Currently, Oyster.com provides objective, comprehensive reviews and over 200,000 photos taken by Oyster reporters for Las Vegas hotels, New York hotels, Los Angeles hotels, San Francisco hotels, Boston hotels, Miami hotels, Hawaii hotels, Jamaica hotels, Aruba hotels, Dominican Republic hotels, U.S. Virgin Island hotels, and Bahamas hotels.

About Oyster Hotel Reviews

Oyster Hotel Reviews (www.oyster.com) is the first and only travel site dedicated to publishing objective, in-depth reviews, written by trained journalists, of the world's hotels. Oyster reviewers stay in hotels anonymously while systematically evaluating the properties and taking hundreds of photos of every hotel. Oyster Hotel Reviews adheres to the highest editorial standards; it does not accept compensation or incentives from hotels, and pays for all travel expenses. Hotels cannot pay to be reviewed nor can they influence the reviews in any way. The site aggregates hotel prices from leading travel sites and provides several booking options for each hotel. Oyster is financed by Bain Capital Ventures and is led by an accomplished and experienced management team including Oyster co-founder Elie Seidman and executive editor Scott Medintz.

SOURCE Oyster.com