AI Travel Research: Tripadvisor Reviews & Attractions

Travel research is a reading problem disguised as a decision problem. Tripadvisor alone hosts well over a billion reviews, and a single popular restaurant might carry several thousand. Cruise Critic adds thousands more per ship. Buried in that volume is the answer to a simple question — is this place actually good? — but extracting it by hand means scrolling endlessly, mentally averaging star ratings, and hoping you did not miss the one recurring complaint that would have changed your mind.

Three free browser-automation skills in the aiskill.market Travel category turn that reading problem back into a decision. Two of them extract and structure reviews — from Tripadvisor's hotels, restaurants, and attractions, and from Cruise Critic's ship pages — so an AI agent can summarise the consensus instead of you reading it. The third discovers top-rated attractions near any location, ranked and annotated. Together they let you research a destination the way a research assistant would: read everything, surface the signal, rank the options.

Key Takeaways

1. The Tripadvisor skill returns an entity's overall rating, review count, rating distribution, ranking, and a filterable slice of structured reviews — by traveler type, language, season, sort order, and even hotel subratings or restaurant meal type.
2. The Cruise Critic skill extracts ship metadata plus a filtered slice of member reviews as structured JSON, applying the same review-mining approach to cruise ships.
3. The Wanderboat skill discovers top-rated attractions by IP-geolocated proximity or any named city, returning ranked places with rating, review count, opening hours, and AI-curated commentary.
4. Filtering is the differentiator — Tripadvisor reviews can be sliced by traveler type and season so you read what families or solo travellers actually said, not a blended average.
5. All three are read-only: they extract and rank but never post or book, so they are pure research tools that feed your own decision.

Mining Reviews at Scale With Tripadvisor

Tripadvisor is the default starting point for vetting almost any travel decision, and the Tripadvisor skill is built to read it the way no human can. Given any Tripadvisor entity — a hotel, restaurant, or attraction — it returns the overall rating, total review count, the full rating distribution, the entity's ranking within its category, and a structured, filterable slice of the actual reviews.

The filtering is what makes it powerful. You are not stuck with a single blended star average. You can ask for reviews by:

• Rating bubble (read the 1-star complaints, then the 5-star praise)
• Traveler type (families, couples, solo, business)
• Language and season
• Hotel subratings (cleanliness, location, service, value)
• Restaurant meal type (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
• Search-within for a specific keyword

That means you can ask your AI agent something precise — "summarise what families said about this resort in summer, focusing on the pool and the food" — and get an answer drawn from exactly the relevant reviews. The agent reads the slice, you get the verdict. Verify anything on tripadvisor.com.

Applying the Same Method to Cruise Ships

Cruise research has the same shape as restaurant research — thousands of opinions, one decision — so the Cruise Critic skill uses the same review-mining approach. Give it a ship page by URL, or by cruise line plus ship name, and it extracts the ship's metadata along with a filtered slice of member reviews as structured JSON.

It leads with a Browserbase stealth session to clear Cruise Critic's DataDome wall and uses the per-review Next.js data endpoint as a shortcut, so the reviews arrive clean. The practical pattern mirrors Tripadvisor: feed the agent a ship name, get back a structured digest of what passengers consistently praised and complained about. Check the source at cruisecritic.com.

Discovering What to Do With Wanderboat

Reviews tell you whether a known place is good. Discovery tells you what places exist in the first place — and that is the Wanderboat skill. It discovers top-rated nearby attractions either by IP-geolocated proximity (what is near me right now) or for any named city worldwide.

For each attraction it returns the name, rating, review count, opening hours, and AI-curated commentary explaining why the place stands out. That commentary is the difference between a flat list and a usable shortlist — it tells you not just that an attraction is highly rated but what makes it worth your time. Use it to seed a day plan, then run the standouts through the Tripadvisor skill to read the detailed reviews before committing.

Tripadvisor vs Cruise Critic vs Wanderboat: What Each Skill Returns

The three form a complete research loop. Wanderboat finds candidate places, Tripadvisor and Cruise Critic verify them with structured reviews, and your AI agent synthesises both into a ranked, evidence-backed plan.

Plugging Research Into the Full Trip

Research is the connective tissue of trip planning — it informs the cruise you book, the hotel you choose, and the attractions you build a day around. These three skills feed directly into the rest of the marketplace's travel category.

For cruises specifically, the cruise deals guide pairs the Cruise Critic review skill here with the Carnival and Expedia Cruises deal-finders, so you research the ship and find the deal in one workflow. For the more unusual side of a trip — campsites, yacht charters, or a fully vegan food itinerary — the niche travel skills guide shows how AI handles the long tail of travel research.

To see how research sits alongside flights, hotels, trains, and cars in one end-to-end workflow, start with the 26-skill travel automation guide. Every skill follows the same contract: the agent drives the real site, returns structured data, and leaves the judgement to you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can AI summarize Tripadvisor reviews for me?

Yes. The Tripadvisor skill extracts an entity's overall rating, review count, rating distribution, ranking, and a filterable slice of structured reviews. You can slice by traveler type, season, language, or subrating, then ask your AI agent to summarise exactly the reviews that matter — for example what families said about a resort in summer — instead of reading thousands yourself.

How do I research attractions near my location with AI?

Use the Wanderboat skill. It discovers top-rated nearby attractions by IP-geolocated proximity or for any city you name, returning each place with its rating, review count, opening hours, and AI-curated commentary explaining why it stands out. That commentary turns a flat list into a usable shortlist you can build a day plan around.

What is the difference between Tripadvisor and Cruise Critic review extraction?

Both extract structured reviews, but for different things. The Tripadvisor skill covers hotels, restaurants, and attractions with deep filters like traveler type, season, and subratings. The Cruise Critic skill is specialised for cruise ships, returning ship metadata plus a filtered slice of member reviews. Use Tripadvisor for land-based research and Cruise Critic for vetting a specific ship.

Do these review skills post or book anything?

No. All three — Tripadvisor, Cruise Critic, and Wanderboat — are strictly read-only research tools. They extract reviews, ratings, and attraction data but never post a review, make a reservation, or take payment. They feed your decision; you act on it yourself.

Are these AI travel research skills free?

Yes. All three are free browser-automation skills in the aiskill.market Travel category, built on the browse.sh framework. You install them, point your AI agent at a place, ship, or city, and it reads the live site and returns structured data. There is no cost for the research itself.

Explore production-ready AI skills at aiskill.market/browse or submit your own skill to the marketplace.