Hi !!
This is Andres Garcia from Elche (Spain) in my first post.
I discovered Google Local Guides about one year and a half ago. At that moment, I was a very active user at TripAdvisor, because I used to take a look at that page for all my travels or for my books in restaurants.
I always did the same: first look for the opinion at TripAdvisor and then look for the restaurant/city/monument at Google Maps. So for me was a fantastic idea to have all the information in the same took, Google Maps, and I decided to write all my opinions in Google Maps instead of Tripadvisor.
And, today I’m a level 5 local guide and I’m very happy to help another people to know my city or the cities and restaurants that I visit. I think that the best help is the help that another users can bring you.