Paris-Rome

In the summer of 2006 I initiated a forum thread called One thousand one hundred and seventy-eight, which was the number of Eiffel Tower tips in VitualTourist at that time.

My question in that thread was: "The Eiffel Tower in Paris currently has 1,178 tips here on VirtualTourist, in seven different categories. Is there any other single attraction on VT which has more tips than that?"

It took a while for everyone to understand that I was talking about tips on VirtualTourist, not hits on a search engine, but after we got that straightened out the consensus was that the Eiffel Tower does indeed have more tips than any other single attraction in the world. "A French victory!!" as pieter_jan_v commented.

In 2007 I did a re-count and discovered that there were 1,260 Eiffel Tower tips, up 82 from the year before. Now, in 2008, VT has 1,325 ET tips, up 65 from last year.

So it seems that we VT members have started slacking off lately, since we added 82 ET tips from 2006-2007 but only 65 from 2007-2008. Is this perhaps due to the exchange rate of the Euro against the Dollar?

As in previous years, the figure for 2008 includes tips from seven different categories. There are currently 995 Things to Do tips about the Eiffel Tower (including one of mine, believe it or not), 23 Nightlife tips, 12 Off the Beaten Path tips (!), 59 Tourist Trap tips, five Warning/Danger tips, 225 General tips and six Local Customs tips, not counting this one.

By the way, these figures do not include the 24 reviews (mostly negative) of the restaurant Altitude 95, which is in the Eiffel Tower.

Second photo: The Eiffel Tower: The most tips of any single attraction on VirtualTourist.