Here's the latest in our new series of blogs by Glasgow students.

By Hayley Myatt

These days, group holidays are becoming more and more common among teenagers and students.

I’m no different. With a failed attempt last year and losing a deposit, my friends and I have been looking for a great first holiday.

We have looked at hundreds of holidays, trying to book before January to save money. But it’s harder than it seems.

All the bad reviews people seem to force themselves to write - some rather off-putting photos which, if we are honest, are probably a bad representation of the actual holiday - I’m convinced some people are writing just a reason to have a moan.

On the other hand, the management photos paint the best side of the hotel, showing the glamorous rooms a student wouldn't be paying for.

The visitors paint the worst of the hotel, with pictures of scraped floors, broken loungers and of course the classic cockroach photo shoot.

This I think is the most angering and off-putting of all photos on websites such as TripAdvisor. But we all know, no matter where you go abroad cockroaches are a given.

So why do so many people try to force out the worst of a hotel? I know some can actually be as bad as they are put across. But what can we really trust, with these online reviews?

I think the cockroach creeping into some reviews is not necessary. At first, these pictures were the reason I would stop looking at a holiday.

It is making it more difficult for students to find one. They may not have the experience in what to expect or work out what is a real problem. I have experienced this myself.

I had to move away from that as we were spending months looking at more and more hotels, taking a little too much caution in our decision-making.

It is scary to be organising holidays worrying they won’t be what you expect. But I know that this is the wrong attitude to have.

So we are into December and my friends and I have still not booked anything and we have been looking since June.

But as we near the end of the year, we are having to try to make a decision.

So we took our online choices to a travel agents, who showed us more holidays than we had considered, making the decision harder.

I guess, we will have to wait and see what happens to my first holiday blues.

I want a holiday where I won’t be put off by picky things like bedroom covers. It’s harder than I thought.

And if I am honest, I am fed up looking at holidays. I would rather just book the next one I see.

Oh, but I doubt that will happen, so let the waiting game continue.