Grid Skipper Review

Grid Skipper describes its site as:  Gridskipper, the decadent urban travel guide. Scouring the globe for chic hotels, hot restaurants, sweet nightlife, and pretty people.  When it comes to vacationing, those are all of things I'm typically looking for - particularly chic hotels and hot restaurants.  Grid Skipper is a great 'off the beaten path' resource AND it's very targeted.  So either you'll love it or you'll find it highly un-useful, which I like - there's nothing worse than info-overload; niche sites trying to appeal to everyone.

Gridskipper is basically like a very well-organized blog.  You can search by top cities like Paris, New York or Berlin (to name a few) or by more obscure cities (e.g. I quickly searched Milwaukee, WI and 5 articles came up).  You can also search by date of posting OR by category (e.g. $100 per day, Sushi or Jack Baur - 3 of the many normal to odd categories to view). 

The Gridskipper has received tons of press in trusted resources.  Forbes listed it as one of the 13 best travel sites and Time Magazine listed it as one of the 50 coolest websites of 2005.  I would definitely recommend searching a city before you travel there - even if you only find one interesting place to visit that is not detailed in your standard travel guide, it's worth it.