The Scenario
You are a travel blogger putting together a destination guide for Boston. Your draft is open in one tab. In another tab, you have a blank Google Sheet where you intended to drop a comparison table of the top hotels near downtown — names, addresses, star ratings, review counts, price levels. You figured you would pull this from Tripadvisor and it would take fifteen minutes.
That was forty minutes ago.
The bad version:
- Open the Tripadvisor website, search "hotels in Boston," start clicking into individual property pages to find the location IDs and full addresses
- Copy each hotel's name, rating, review count, and price level into the sheet one at a time, switching tabs after each property
- Realize at hotel seven that you copied the wrong price level for hotel three, go back, fix it, lose your place, start over from hotel eight
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 actual copy around this table.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads your sheet, knows the Tripadvisor integration, and can search for hotels near a location ID, fetch full details for each result, and write everything into your sheet in one operation. No tab switching, no field-by-field copying.
Here is the prompt for this specific task:
Search TripAdvisor for hotels near location ID 60745 (Boston) and write each hotel's location ID, name, address, and distance from center into this sheet, then fetch full details for each and add rating, review count, and price level
What You Get
- Column A: Tripadvisor location ID for each hotel
- Column B: Hotel name
- Column C: Full street address
- Column D: Distance from city center
- Columns E, F, G: Overall rating, total review count, price level
- Rows continue until the hotel list is exhausted — typically 10 to 20 results depending on density
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The location ID for your destination is not in the sheet yet
Look up the Tripadvisor location ID for downtown Boston, then search for nearby hotels and write location ID, name, address, distance, rating, review count, and price level into this sheet starting at row 2
You want results sorted by rating before they land in the sheet
Search TripAdvisor for hotels near location ID 60745, fetch full details for each, sort results by overall rating descending, and write hotel name, address, rating, review count, and price level into this sheet
You have a tab of multiple destination location IDs and want results for all of them
For each destination location ID in column A of the Destinations tab, search for nearby hotels and write hotel name, address, rating, and review count into the Results tab — include a Destination column so you can tell which city each hotel belongs to
You want the full research table plus a quick summary for your draft
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 tab, then in cell A1 of the Summary tab write a two-sentence overview of the price and rating range across all results
The pattern: you can ask for the data pull and the downstream formatting in a single prompt — SheetXAI handles both steps without you needing to return to it.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open a blank Google Sheet 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.