Planning a trip to explore a new city, or organizing a quick getaway should be easy and fun! Today, however, there are enough reviews, photos and other information about what to do, where to stay, or what to eat, to make even seasoned travelers heads spin. The good news is that theres a better way to research your next trip!

At Uptake, we make planning your ideal vacation easy and fun, helping you create a customized trip by pairing together the advice and recommendations from the people you trust most - your family and friends - along with the largest and best organized online travel library.

We do this by cutting out the guesswork. We help uncover your social travel network on Facebook, identifying those friends that have been to the destination you are researching and allowing you to ask for recommendations and tips from those you trust. Armed with tips from your friends you can cross-check that information with reviews, photos and other information from our online travel library of more than 30,000 web sites. Since our initial launch a few years ago, Uptake has become the largest independent travel research site, helping more than 30 million travelers research their trips in 2011. Today, Uptake is here to help you research your trip, so you can travel like youve been there before.

About the Team

The Uptake team is comprised of technology dorks who love travel, and travel junkies who love technology. We are an energized, fun and results-oriented team based in the heart of Silicon Valley. Come visit us to enjoy our extensive photo gallery, napping couches, free yoga, endless supplies of dark chocolate, Canadian beer or a lively game of Crud.

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