Your personalised Holiday Match Maker from Halifax
I was asked to look at, and review, the new Facebook App from the Halifax.
Before we go on, heres a small disclaimer. I’m getting paid to review this app, however its important that you understand that this is for the effort and time that i spent doing this review and not to give an automatically positive review.
If don’t like something thing I’ll tell you about it. Simple as that.
OK - On with the review!
Heres what the Halifax say about it;
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The Holiday Match Maker from Halifax. It’s one of those rare things, a Facebook application that is genuinely useful and entertaining at the same time. It’s also pretty clever. By analysing the content of your profile, it will ’calculate’ what your ideal holiday destination is, where you should stay, what you should do, what the weather’s like at the moment and how many plastic Eiffel Towers you can buy for a fiver. Now it doesn’t get much more useful than that. Oh, and it will also point you in the direction of Halifax Travel Money, something you might find handy when going on holiday.
This facebook app is actually pretty unique and works in quite a clever way. By installing it and allowing to access your details it will match you up with a holiday destination. It even takes a look at your photos and can see when you’ve posted holiday pics from previous holidays.
After taking a look at this, it matches you with a percentage level of how much you’d be likely to enjoy anothetr destination.
It doesn’t just stop at suggesting your holiday destination. It takes everything one step further than that and even recommends places to visit, eat, drink, dance! All seems pretty useful stuff.
Having installed the app, it quickly came back with a match based on my pics, what’s written on my wall etc. So lets see how it did:
Ibiza huh. Right. Personally, Its not on my list of visits. However it scored me pretty high (90%!) that I should visit there. I do wonder what scored me so high, perhaps my holiday snaps from Thailand last year that made the algo return Ibiza.
It then went onto recommend places to visit. Tell me what you can get for a tenner etc. I really liked that feature, and it can be really useful if your matched to a decent place. It would be great if there was a way to let me choose another destination, and do things for yourself post match. Its definitely a feature that the developers should consider for the future.
Overall I like this app. Its fun, and has some interesting info on the destinations. Its good to see a facebook app that isn’t about farming, killing rival mob members or identifying your celebrity doppelgänger.
Give it a go, you’ll like it. And if you don’t you can always easily uninstal it!
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