Trip Planning

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This semester is coming to its end, and I'm planning a trip to somewhere during the holiday with my friends. Somewhere? Of course, GOLD COAST! Every time I think about it, I can't stop myself cheering.

"Calm down," my friend says. Alright, before heading there, we'd better do some work first.

I googled the travel tips to gold coast and found these two websites. Different styles, but pretty much same information.

This is the first website I found called Gold Coast Australia Travel Tips.com. To me it looks like a private blog. So I think maybe I can find more interesting and personal tips in this site.

As you can see, the home page of this site includes a brief self-introduction of the blogger with some random pictures at the top. But the most attractive section is the "Top 10 Frequently Asked Questions". Every question is linkable to its answer.

Since I'm a little bit worried about the weather there in the late Oct, I click on the question no.4 - Best Time to Visit The Gold Coast Questions & Answers and here is the page I get:

To be honest, the page's layout is disappointing. I have a hard time to tell which part is the answer and which part is ads. And then I finally find the body, I get this:



Oh, why don't  the blogger just answer the question? I think the best way to do this, especially when the target readers are trip planners who want the information to be clear, quick, and direct, is giving the straight answer and leave all those additional information after it. Like this one:

Finally I get what I want from a travel tips website.