Pick any city to review on any credible hotel review site and you may just find the following: "Fantastic Hotel" preceded days earlier in a review for the same hotel: "Cheap Hotel! Avoid at All Costs!" Which to believe?
Perhaps neither and perhaps both. Recognizing which reviews to accept and which to ignore is quickly becoming an art, yet many travelers find it a grind as they attempt to get to the bottom line. The task is made that much harder because the seeming whims and needs of the reviewers make understanding simple reviews all the more difficult.
This is where a little research and common sense can usually increase the odds of your making a thoughtful decision about the Inn of your choice.
First you must learn to separate the wheat from the chaff. When time allows, you can review numerous travel review sites and focus on the properties you are targeting. This will provide great information to you, not to mention give you helpful tips and advice. Checking several sites can give you a 'composite' picture of a given property.
What one should look for in a nutshell are these four important factors.
o At least 10 reviews offered
o The overall average score or rating.
o Recent reviews - none over three years old should be strongly considered.
o Similar rankings on two or three different review sites.
Having at least 10 reviews to consider gives you much to work with. Not considering reviews from five years earlier, particularly when they describe a run down property that may have been sold and remodeled is common sense. Lastly, seeing a top ranked property on TripAdvisor backed up by a solid 'average score' on Travelocity or Expedia gives you a great view of how different reviewers size up a given property.
THE most important of the above is that there are enough reviews present to give a reasonable average. A Properties of the three reviews of one of them is "1" and "3" and last "5" say anything. 4.2 ค่าเฉลี่ยนี้บอกเรา comment! They are looking at the possibility, and in different places, and I guarantee that there will be mistakes.