Quote:Question: how do you guys read hotel reviews on sites like Trip Advisor?

 

The lady at the travel agency has put together a nice list of stopovers and I'm checking them out right now. First one has almost all 4 or 5 star reviews so that's nice. Another is 70-80% bad reviews so I'll probably change that but I also have one with an almost perfect distribution of good and bad. It's a Super 8 so I'm not expecting much but I would like to be able to filter the reliable reviews from the fake or useless reviews. 

 

I didn't know travel agents still exist.   I thought everyone used something like Expedia. 

 

I am very careful of hotel reviews.  I almost always disregard 5-star reviews.  I think a lot of them are fake.  I try to read the bad reviews.  Those are more informative.   But sometimes the bad reviews are just people making some ridiculous complaint.   On the other hand, if you get multiple bad reviews, all saying the same thing, then you can tell there's an element of truth there.   I look for stuff like "I wouldn't stay there again because this was a very bad neighborhood and I didn't feel safe."  Or "There were stains on the sheets and the wallpaper was peeling."   Stuff like that. 

 

Expedia claims that their reviews are from people who they can verify have stayed at the hotel in question.  

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