Build a Hotel Research Sheet From Tripadvisor Into Excel

The Scenario

You are a travel blogger building a destination guide for Boston. Your draft is in one document; in another window you have a blank Excel workbook where you plan to drop a hotel comparison table — names, addresses, ratings, review counts, price levels. You figured it would take fifteen minutes to pull from Tripadvisor.

That was forty minutes ago.

The bad version:

• Open the Tripadvisor website, search hotels in Boston, click into individual property pages trying to find location IDs and structured address data
• Copy each hotel's name, rating, review count, and price level into the workbook one at a time, switching between browser and Excel after each property
• Realize at hotel six that you captured the wrong price level for hotel two, go back, fix it, lose your place, restart from hotel seven

Your guide goes to the editor at noon. You are not spending the remaining time on a transcription exercise — you are supposed to be writing the copy around this table.

The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI

SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads your workbook, knows the Tripadvisor integration, and can search for hotels near a location ID, fetch full details for each result, and write everything into your workbook in one operation — no switching tabs, no field-by-field copying.

Here is the prompt for this specific task:

For each city in column A of my Excel sheet, look up its TripAdvisor location ID, fetch the nearby hotels, and write hotel name, address, rating, and TripAdvisor URL into a new row for each hotel found

What You Get

• Column A: City name (as entered)
• Column B: Hotel name
• Column C: Full formatted address
• Column D: Overall Tripadvisor rating
• Column E: TripAdvisor URL for each property
• One row per hotel, grouped by city, continuing until all cities are processed

What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready

You already have the location ID and want to skip the lookup step

Search TripAdvisor for hotels near location ID 60745 (Boston), fetch full details for each, and write hotel name, address, rating, review count, and price level into this workbook starting at row 2

You want results sorted by rating before they land in the workbook

Search TripAdvisor for hotels near location ID 60745, fetch full details for each, sort by overall rating descending, and write hotel name, address, rating, review count, and price level into this workbook

You have a worksheet of multiple destination location IDs and want results for all of them

For each destination location ID in column A of the Destinations worksheet, search for nearby hotels and write hotel name, address, rating, and review count into the Results worksheet — include a Destination column so each hotel's city is clear

You want the full hotel table plus a two-sentence summary of the price and rating range

Search TripAdvisor for the top 10 hotels near location ID 60745, fetch full details for each, write name, address, rating, review count, and price level into the Hotels worksheet, then in cell A1 of the Summary worksheet write two sentences describing the price and rating distribution across all results

Asking for the data and the editorial summary together means you start writing the guide copy immediately.

Try It

Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open a blank Excel workbook for your next destination guide, then ask it to pull the hotel research table for whatever city you are covering. Also see how to pull bookable activities for the same destination, or how to bulk-enrich a list of location IDs you already have.