Call me negative, but when I search for hotels online, I always sort the reviews by the lowest and read those first. Booking sites will usually list a bunch of good reviews at the top, as they want you to book and pay for the room, making it easy to miss what people commonly disliked about their stay.
Even in a hotel rated > 4.5/5 there can be issues. I’ve found in my many years of travels that almost no hotel is perfect, there’s always some flaw, and by reading the worst reviews I can figure out what they are, and if I can put up with them.
Thin walls, slow internet, low water pressure, inadequate housekeeping, terrible breakfast. If you see multiple people complaining about the same thing, you can trust that you’ll have the same experience.
Some things I don’t care about. The breakfast was awful? I usually skip it anyway. Housekeeping didn’t clean the room? I usually have the DND sign on my door for the whole stay.
But if the WiFi is slow and unreliable, or the walls are paper thin, that’s a deal breaker for me. And better to find out before booking than when you’re banging your head against the wall because the internet keeps cutting off, or you can’t sleep because you can hear loud “banging” activities coming from the next room.
Dale Philip
Call me negative, but when I search for hotels online, I always sort the reviews by the lowest and read those first. Booking sites will usually list a bunch of good reviews at the top, as they want you to book and pay for the room, making it easy to miss what people commonly disliked about their stay.
Even in a hotel rated > 4.5/5 there can be issues. I’ve found in my many years of travels that almost no hotel is perfect, there’s always some flaw, and by reading the worst reviews I can figure out what they are, and if I can put up with them.
Thin walls, slow internet, low water pressure, inadequate housekeeping, terrible breakfast. If you see multiple people complaining about the same thing, you can trust that you’ll have the same experience.
Some things I don’t care about. The breakfast was awful? I usually skip it anyway. Housekeeping didn’t clean the room? I usually have the DND sign on my door for the whole stay.
But if the WiFi is slow and unreliable, or the walls are paper thin, that’s a deal breaker for me. And better to find out before booking than when you’re banging your head against the wall because the internet keeps cutting off, or you can’t sleep because you can hear loud “banging” activities coming from the next room.
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