Editorial Review:Product Description:Travelgirl offers the sophisticated female traveler everything she needs to make lifestyle & travel decisions for her family and herself. She'll find tips to make each escape perfect, whether she's taking off on an exotic overseas adventure or packing up the family for a cross-country road trip.
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Superficial
TravelGirl is worth thumbing through at the bookstore to kill time, but it is not worth the $4.99 cover price or $18/one year (6 issues) for a subscription. (Note: I have been a subscriber to this magazine for one year and definitely will not renew.)
TravelGirl looks and reads like one long advertisement written by a teenager. From the moment you pick it up, you might notice that it seems a little...thin. Each issue is approximately 80 glossy, graphics-filled pages. The layout is amateurish -- multi-colored text boxes, text in difficult-to-read font over enlarged photographs, etc. While most travel magazines are basically advertisements for the hotels, resorts, and restaurants they review, some do a better job than others of hiding it among interesting, informative prose.
TravelGirl is not one of those informative magazines. Articles are short and superficial. Each issue will have maybe one in-depth (three-page) article about actually experiencing a location; one writer's tale of exploring the streets of Hanoi on a motorbike and the people she met while doing so comes to mind as a notable example. Most of the other "articles" in a given issue are just half-page product placements that read like this: "We love XYZ back-pack! It is a masterpiece of both form and function. Don't travel without it! Carry it when you spend a weekend in at the Joe Plumber Cowboy Ranch in Montana." Regular features include "You know you're a travelgirl if..."
... "Before your friends make their travel plans, they call you for advice instead of their travel agent."
TravelGirl also tries to delve into the lifestyle arena, unsuccessfully. Fashion spreads and celebrity interviews are oddly chosen (the ties to travel adventures unclear) and painfully sparse on content. Cher was featured on the cover of the August/September 2008. The author claims to have interviewed Cher in 2004; there is no evidence in the two pages that follow that an interview had occurred since then. Baffling.
There is a market of upwardly mobile women who have money to spend on leisure travel. TravelGirl (even the title sounds superficial) missed the mark on targeting it.
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Big Hype - big price - not big magazine!
I was so excited to get this magazine, but it sorely dissapointed. Articles are not-in-depth, the most exciting thing about this magazine is the cover art. Articles lack any information, and material is not relevant to 99% of people. Two thumbs down. Don't waste your money!
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great new addition to travel mags
Lots of fun stuff in this one...definately trends towards younger, upscale women, but interesting ideas not only on travel, but also music and lifestyle things.