Welcome to Tripulu!

Tripulu (Trip * ulu) is a specialized guide that aims to inform and inspire travel. Vacation is precious, so we offer local insight to help you create the escape you’re looking for. We deliver current news about restaurants, accommodations and activities --with nice large photos and HD video. You can preview the unique places our local writers love and trust that your time and money will be well spent. Take a risk, move outside your comfort zone, and use every minute of your vacation to see something new. Tripulu is here to help you plan that adventure.

Latest Tripulu Stories

HappyTree Yoga, Montreal – Purely Zentastic!

MONTREAL - It’s hard to not become stressed in our busy day-to-day lives with work, families, relationships, bills, and whatever else that could cause us to feel the pressures of life- it’s honestly surprising we all haven’t gone zonkers by now.

Fret not (take a deep meView More

How Is Tripulu Doing? See The Numbers For Yourself

Every once in a while I’ll get someone asking me “Hey Jazz, how’s the website doing?” which I’ll usually reply with “well, it’s not making me any money lol” but it got me thinking. Maybe I should share some stats with my readers so they could not only get an answeView More

Online Travel Wars - Who's Next?

I was watching Terminator 2 and surfing the web the other night when I came across an article titled something along the lines of Ex-Googlers launch Mobile Travel Guide To Kill Lonely Planet etc.. I went to bed that evening thinking about the online travel industry and the terView More

Why Do Online Travel Guides Suck?

The short answer is money. No one has figured out how to profit from creating a good online travel guide. Now for the long answer...

Traditional travel guides like Lonely Planet, Frommers, Fodors, have revenue coming in from guide book sales but are struggling to figure out hoView More

Try the new Tripulu IPhone app

MONTREAL - Well here it is, after many delays we finally released version 1.0 of the Tripulu travel guide IPhone app. Simply click here to download our app from Apples ITunes store:

Free Tripulu IPhone app [http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/tripulu/id451776616?mt=8][1]

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Ye Olde Orchard, Montreal : A City’s Celtic Dream

MONTREAL - Have you ever wanted to travel to Ireland but decided financially Montreal would be a better option for the pocket book? Then I have the solution for you- [Ye Olde Orchard Pub & Grill][1].

From the minute you step into Ye Olde Orchard Pub you’ll feel like you haveView More

International balloon festival - Felt like the kid in the movie UP!

MONTREAL - A few months ago Paul, Nick and I initiated “discovery Wednesdays”. Every week we usually get together and make it a point to try a new restaurant, bar, anything we haven’t done before. Yesterday morning I received a call from Steph who asked if I was down with tView More

Posada Mariposa, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

PLAYA DEL CARMEN - [Posada Mariposa][1] is located in older building on 5th Avenue, between 24th and 26th Streets. The building was constructed in a traditional style in the late 1990’s, as La Quinta was expanded northward. The current management completed a full renovating inView More

Beach Club at Grand Coral, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

PLAYA DEL CARMEN - I only recently discovered Beach Club at Grand Coral, but locals have known about it for a few years, since it was opened under the name Blue Cacao. This club is located just around the tip of Coco Bay, about thirty minutes walking distance from the beach at 38View More

Hotel One, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

PLAYA DEL CARMEN - If you travel into Playa del Carmen by bus, especially if you’ve been visiting other areas in Mexico, you’ll often arrive after a long plane or bus ride, and exit directly into the hot, humid climate that locals are accustomed to. As I took of tour of [HoteView More