When I am traveling, not only I like a lot visiting different places but I also enjoy a lot of tasting new and typical food or knowing people.
When I arrive at another city or country or even in my city (Barcelona), I always use Google Maps. I like to find where is the best place to eat, where can we spend a good time, and I always look for 5 stars.
Is so difficult to find someplace that has five stars, but I think if they had four or more is good.
When I leave the place or the restaurant, I always try to leave them a review. I always explain a little how I have felt, how they have treated me or If they have a good service.
To put an example, in my last holidays, I spent time doing the “Camino de Santiago”. We were traveling with a little dog so we had lots of problems to find places to sleep that accept animals.
I started to look for hotels or hostels we can sleep. It was so difficult but I used Google Maps to do it. It was quite easy to find the town we want to spend the night and the telephone numbers to book a room. Finally, we could reserve all the hostels.
When our trip starts, I was calm because I know they had four or more stars on Google so, for me, It is calming. Moreover, doing our trip, I looked for good places to have dinner. We have found a place in Lugo (Spain) that has 4,6 stars and the food was so tasty.
After sleeping at our hostels or restaurants, I always put a review of what I have thought about staff, rooms, service and if it was clean or not. Of course, I always put that we were traveling with a little dog, to help other travelers.
I hope you always use Google Maps to find more than streets.
Judith