1. Moon Palace Resort Cancun – If you want a Mexico all-inclusive vacation but do not want to spend a fortune, the Moon Palace Resort Cancun may be the right place. At The Baccarat Hotel , in New York, for example, travelers who book their stay through a Signature agent get $100 credit to use at the two Michelin-star Gabriel Kreuther Restaurant in Bryant Park (Kreuther collaborates with the hotel on its food menu).

And the even uglier truth is that two companies now work together to make sure you’re getting ripped off: almost every big tour operator sells its tours through the massive tour reseller Viator, which was just acquired in late 2014 by the supposedly unbiased review site TripAdvisor.

Recently, the company has enhanced this program by allowing hotels to chose and pin a favorite review to the top of the listings, offset user-generated photos with ones provided by the hotel and install a slideshow of handpicked images to showcase your property’s best aspects.

Changing the wording allowed TripAdvisor to wiggle out of a €500,000 fine in 2014 by an Italian regulator (the Italian Competition Authority), which called on TripAdvisor to stop publishing misleading information about the sources of its reviews.” Since they no longer claim their reviews are honest nor trustworthy, they can’t be held accountable for a few fake reviews”.

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