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Been There Go There
Travel notes from experienced travelers
Field Notes.
Been There Go There is where people document a place, share the specific thing that mattered, and use other people’s notes to plan the next trip.
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Look for a city, a meal, a subject, or a problem. The results are posts, not articles.
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Because you have been to Lisbon and New Orleans.
Recommendations use the places you logged, the food you wrote about, and the trips still open.
Matched to you
Hotels and Vrbos
Where people actually slept.
A stay gets its own card. Rating, who stayed, and the one thing that mattered.
Restaurants
The meal, not the neighborhood.
Restaurants sit apart from the place post, so a city can have several rated tables.
Notable Eateries
sampleStandout tables worth planning around — hidden local spots and memorable meals, each rated by someone who ate there.
Your places
Been and go, on one map.
The master map is every posted place. Your map is only your posts and trips.
Places on the map
Plan, then log
A trip is a plan made of posts.
Before you go, the trip is research. After you go, the same trip is the log.
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The notes are free. The plan is not.
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- Everything in Explorer
- Business Travel: hotels, airports and lounges rated for work
- Work Trip City Guides
- Status-match tips
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This is where someone enters their information. After this, the You page is theirs.
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This is where a member writes what they actually did, or what they want to do.
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About Us
Welcome to Beentheregothere.com — a travel knowledge hub built by experienced travelers, for experienced travelers.
We’re Nick and Carolyn. After more than three decades each of living, working, and exploring around the world, we realized something was missing. Most travel sites are geared toward first-timers or casual vacationers. We wanted a place that speaks to people who already know the basics — a resource that helps you go deeper, avoid the usual traps, and make the most of every trip.
Nick has spent 30+ years in roles that kept him on the road, mixed with plenty of personal travel along the way. He’s a 2-million-miler on air travel and has been a United 1K member for more than 15 years. Carolyn has worked for a major domestic airline for over 30 years and has logged extensive miles exploring destinations across the country and beyond. She’s been a United 1K for the past five years. Together we’ve also held top-tier status on multiple hotel frequent-stay programs for more than 30 years. Between us, we’ve stayed in countless hotels, eaten in everything from hidden local spots to memorable standouts, learned what to prioritize and what to skip, and developed a strong sense of what actually makes a trip worthwhile.
That’s why we created Beentheregothere. Here you’ll find practical, hard-earned insights on places to go, things to do, where to stay, where to eat, must-dos, and things to avoid. We focus on destinations and experiences that reward seasoned travelers — the ones that go beyond the obvious tourist path. We also built the site so we (and you) can log past travels and plan future ones in a way that actually reflects real experience rather than generic checklists.
Our goal is simple: document what we’ve learned and share it with a like-minded community of travelers who want more substance, better recommendations, and fewer regrets. Just as important, we want this to be a place where other experienced travelers can share their own insights, tips, and stories too. Whether you’re looking for reliable guidance on an upcoming trip, a place to track where you’ve been, or a community that gets it and contributes to it, this is the space we wished existed.
Adventures await the bold. We’re glad you’re here — let’s keep exploring.
Privacy
What we keep, and how to remove it.
Been There Go There is owned by BTGT LLC and run by Nick and Carolyn. We collect the name and email you give us, the posts and photos you add, your Been and Go marks, and whether you are on the free or paid plan. We use that to run the site, show your notes, and manage the subscription.
We do not sell your information. The host and the payment processor see what they need to run the site and take the $5 payment. We keep an account while it is open. If you close it, we delete the account and the personal data tied to it, except records we must keep for taxes or fraud.
To see, correct, or delete your information, use Cancel or write to [email protected].
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Free and paid members use this page. Stopping the plan does not close the account. Closing the account also stops the plan.
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Your log
Nick
Been is what you logged. Go is what you saved. Your posts are what other people can read.
Loyalty programs
Rewards & Rentals.
Our scores for the airline, hotel and rental car programs we use, out of 5 on value, earning, perks and service.
★ Member ratings coming soon. Members will be able to add their own scores for each program.
Airbnb & VRBO
Where We Stayed.
Every rental we’ve stayed in, rated on cleanliness, accuracy, host and value. Locations are shown by city or area only.
★ Member ratings coming soon. Members will be able to rate rentals they’ve stayed in too.
Road Warrior Business travel
Business Travel.
Hotels, airports and lounges rated for work trips: the Wi‑Fi, the desk, the 6 AM breakfast, and the perks that make a Tuesday in a new city easier.
Work Trip City Guides
Land, work, eat, sleep, repeat.
Status-match tips
Already have status somewhere? Ask for it everywhere.
Many airline, hotel and rental car programs will match or fast-track elite status you hold with a competitor, often as a trial you keep by hitting a set number of stays or flights. General tips: screenshot your current status page, time a match before a busy travel stretch, read the requalification terms, and only match once per program since many limit it. Placeholder — our detailed, program-by-program guide is coming.
Pick a ticket, scratch the foil
Surprise Trip Scratch-Off.
Choose Road Trip, International, Stateside, National Parks or Surprise me, set your budget, then scratch to reveal a trip and its top 5 things to do.
Feeling adventurous?
Roll the Dice.
Set your budget, dates and how far you’ll go. We pick the place. You just pack.
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Your surprise trip lands here.
Booking buttons open general searches for now; partner links are coming. Prices are rough tiers, not quotes.