Usually when people decide it’s time for a vacation, they don’t start from absolute scratch. They have ideas as to what types of experiences they’d like to have, even if they have no clue as to where and how they’ll have them.
Nile Guide is a travel planning website launching today with an appreciation for that fact. It has aggregated travel data from over 10 sources, including Citysearch, OpenTable, and Expedia, and added its own reports and reviews from local experts for 80 international destinations. It’s then made all of the information searchable from within a tool that takes into consideration both objective and subjective factors related to your preconceived preferences.
There are four main search types on Nile Guide: food, lodging, nightlife, and “see & do”. When you search from within any one of them, you can filter the results in real-time using a variety of criteria.
For example, you can choose to view only restaurants in a given city/region that are lively, quiet, off beat, romantic, kid friendly, or business oriented. Results can be further tailored by neighborhood, cuisine, and costliness. Finally, you can choose to see results that match keywords such as “sushi”, and you can order results by their distance from notable landmarks such as the airport.