Sign up now for TIME's WorldWatch email newsletter. Maybe she was right, although the American Midwest may not be everybody's favorite destination. But she could be wrong and here's why. Of course not.
Home can be hell.
And you have to walk the dog and do the dishes. But even the most discerning traveler needs help from time to time. In the meantime the website brings some refreshingly honest criticism to bear on hotels that probably imagine they are beyond reproach. In fact, the first sight of it reminds you of the back of an ancient radio. Whatever money the site makes will come from its services as a travel agent.