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Robert Luicha, 48 of Hooksett, is being charged with six felony counts of aggravated sexual assault (one for each assault, according to a Hooksett Police press release), as well as one count each of sexual assault, false imprisonment, and simple assault.
Luicha is being held on $100,000 cash bail and will arraigned at the Hooksett District court today at 9 a.m.
Hooksett Police began their investigation Jan. 12 after the victim, a woman, reported the incident which had occurred about a week before at her residence on Pine Street in Hooksett. Based on her testimony and the subsequent investigation, police felt they had enough probable cause to move ahead on the warrants.
Police stated that the victim allegedly attempted to leave the room at some point during the assault and Luicha would not allow her to, leading to a false imprisonment charge.
Police also noted that the incident "wasn't random" and "there's no danger to the public." The victim and the alleged assailant knew each other.
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trying to find a better hotel for our stay in london. it always gets me to trust either, tripadvisor, or booking.com in terms of reviews and ratings?
are personal reviews worth more to travelers than star ratings? are star ratings even worthwhile to look at when traveling abroad?
booking.com or tripadvisor for trustworth reviews?
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It's really difficult to say, but I would rely more on booking.com than TA hotel reviews, but given everything we've experienced over the years, professional reviews are far better than traveler's reviews. Traveler's reviews tend to be more subjective, while professional reviews are based on a set of criteria for the property in question, which is why, at one point in time, the most popular restaurant in New York City was a hot dog stand.
Star rating in most cases have a purpose, but not always, especially when dealing with hotels rated 3-star or under. -
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I think the star rating represents the degree of services and facilities available. Whether the star ratings are relevant or not depends on what you need and whether they are important to you. If a 24hr front desk availability is important to you, then that rating has a merit. It says nothing about the quality of that service. I have stayed at places with minimum front desk support, yet those were some of the places I had the fondest memories connecting with the inn keepers.
In reading reviews, I think about how much value the writer placed on the subject, whether that value is relevant to me, as well as if the review was planted by someone with commercial interests. It is difficult to describe, but some establishments have reviews that feel tasteless and phony. And they often contain many such tasteless reviews. -
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Greg is correct, the star ratings reflect the services and facilities available at the hotel, **not the quality of them.** This is a really important distinction. Presumably a hotel that has a zillion amenities is also a high-quality one, but technically the number of stars tells you nothing about the service or cleanliness or whathaveyou.
W/r/t Booking.com versus Tripadvisor ... there is a thread somewhere recently about fake reviews on Tripadvisor. People have all sorts of ways they claim they can tell it's fake, or that they use to weed out "useable" reviews or not. I will say that Tripadvisor allows anyone with an account to post a review about any establishment, whereas Booking.com e-mails the link to post a review directly to the person who booked the room after the stay. I suppose a hotel could game that system by fake-booking rooms, but that seems a lot more complicated than TA, which as I said lets anybody write a review on anything. -
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I just checked out booking.com. I think it's useful for bigger hotels in cities, but it didn't find some of the smaller places we've stayed which were very nice. Nor is it great for apartments, but I don't yet trust Tripadvisor on self-catering accommodations either.
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ahh. thanks for that insight nina. so when you book, for such, what do you use to evaluate on booking.com? the star rating, the user review rating?
mimar, any recommendations for london? -
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Well, the last few times in London we rented apartments. But a couple of years ago we stayed at The Academy. It's in Bloomsbury, convenient to many sights, has a little garden in the back. I would recommend it highly. But you haven't told us your budget.
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I'm not sure I agree 100% about the implied "superiority" of "professional" reviewers since their outlook and sensibitities can be just as skewed as those of individual travelers.
I think you need to read between the lines of both. -
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booking.com is a booking site - therefore there is a good possibility that they have an incentive to publish more of the 'good' reviews. They want you to like the hotels they list so you will book them.
Trip Advisor is not a booking site - if you find a hotel on that site it will send you to another site to book - such as booking .com or venere, etc. Or you can contact the hotel directly. Therefore I trust their reviews.
When reading reviews you need to read many and then go with the majority. One or two people will tend to love or hate a hotel but if the majority find it good that tells you something. I do not put stock in the the star ratings, or in the case of TA the number ratings but rather read the individual reviews.
Over many, many hotels booked on line in the last decade I have almost always found TA reviews (the majority that is) to be extremely accurate. Plus they often give you extra info not found on the hotels website or on booking sites. -
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I just read a review of a hotel (on TA) and here is what one traveler said:
pissed off because the hotel haqs a shuttle to the nearby cruise port but doesn't pick passengers UP there; only dropsw them off. The reviewer's comment: "You'd think they could do that..."
Well, they DON'T
Even more angry about "...having to pay close attention when using the narrow ramp into the secured parking area."
Yeah, they're real objective, for sure. -
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@ grey - I usually ignore the star rating on almost all sites. I try to read the descriptions carefully (including the hotel's own website) and see if it lists the particular amenities I want. I then read the reviews from both booking.com and TripAdvisor to see if there's any mention of a discrepancy of the amenities (e.g., hotel says they have wireless but reviews say it wasn't working, or extra charge or something). I guess I do a "gymnastics judge" view, discounting the lowest and highest rated reviews, and just assume the middle is what's close to accurate.
So my process goes something like this:
(1) go to booking.com, put in location + dates, filter by price I want to pay (etc), find 3-4 hotels to investigate further
(2) go to TripAdvisor and read reviews for those 3-4 hotels, narrow to 1-2
(3) go to Fodor's and Frommer's, do search for those 1-2 hotels, narrow to 1
(4) go to that hotel's website, confirm that I like it, also check whether price is better than on booking.com
(5) book either at hotel site or back on booking.com
Sounds a little convoluted, but it's worked for me.
Unfortunately, no suggestions for London. Everytime I've been, it's been on a budget
@ isabel - The distinction you make re: booking.com vs TA makes sense, but I'm not sure if booking.com censors bad reviews. I've definitely seen some very bad ones (think 3 out of 10). And they always seem to be in chronological order of date of stay (as opposed to "popular" reviews up top). But i have no idea what their policy is, so I wouldn't put it past any site to only show their best face -
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thanks everyone. budget is around 120-150 a nite. currently we have booked the http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g186338-d218403-Reviews-Grand_Royale_London_Hyde_Park-London_England.html
53% do not recommend
sounds horrible, but booking.com has # of reviews, 1200ish and 7.2 rating so i'm like, am i booking the nightmare or what? -
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I use tripadvisor, mainly because I like to read extensive reviews about the hotel, not just 7/10 reviews. One thing I do when using tripadvisor, is I make sure whoever wrote the review has written more than one review. I usually look for over 10 reviews. I also look for complaints that keep reoccuring like bad location or it's dirty.
The one you chose seems to have several reviews that mention small rooms so if that is an issue to you you might have a problem. -
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I wouldn't be optimistic about your selection. 7.2 is not that great a score, and trip advisor's reviews are uninspiring to say the least. I personally wouldn't book any hotel would those kind of reviews, on the other hand, apparently lots of folks did find their stay acceptable, so maybe it will be ok.
Generally my hotel selection process resembles Nina's. When it comes to evaluating reviews, I would emphasize the importance of reading the reviews and comparing the complaints to your needs. In particular, I make a point of reading all the negative reviews. I don't usually go through all the positive reviews, but I will skim some of them looking for patterns that would make me question the truthfulness of the reviews. Reviews that just say things like, "Hotel S/M was perfect in every way, the owner's should be nominated for a Nobel Prize" and don't provide any details are intrinsically suspicious. One or two can be ignored, but if a lot of the positive reviews are like this... -
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I always read the bad reviews too. Sometimes you can tell that the reviewer just had unrealistic expectations and other times there are legitimate complaints. I am currently looking at hotels on the CA central coast and one bad review for a place complained that the hotel wasn't on the beach, but across the street. Really? The map shows it is across the street from the beach - duh.
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I follow almost to the letter, the same process that ninasearching does. Just did it yesterday for hotels in Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Cesky Krumlov (unfortunately booked up at the time I want to be there with a Placido Domingo concert), and Karlovy Vary. Has usually worked pretty well for me.
I am amazed by the number of Brits whose sole complaint about almost all hotels is "no kettle in the room." -
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www.booking.com has the
best honest reviews of recent stays
now owned by Priceline.
TripAdvisor is a for profit ad site owned by expedia
pretending to be a user generated site
Was a destination expert there for years in the past
until expedia took it over and ruined it.
There are secret forums and many fake reviews
Owners that pay are allowed to censor their own reviews
and grequently post fake reviews.
Even worse mods allow for profit agency owners who pay
to scam clueless newbies as "Destination Experts"
So beware there I have seen folks scammed out of thousands
particularly on Galapagos cruises over there.
So www.booking.com the far better site/info truly for me. -
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In London get best deals bidding Priceline
For me last Tower Hotel on the Thames perfect location
$80/nt bidding Priceline. -
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I don't intend to sound nasty, but why not read both, look at what the complaints are based on and use your own judgement? I hope you don't vote based on what the editorial pages tell you.
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TripAdvisor can be used by anyone. You can even write reviews for your own hotel, *BUT* the establishment does have the right to reply.
Booking.com reviews are written by people who have stayed at the establishment AND have taken the trouble to reply to the email from booking.com asking for input. The establishment can NOT respond however outrageous the statements are.
You need to read both and try and read between the lines.
Roger -
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qwovadis, secret forums on TA? Not so secret and very useful, I think, especially the contributions by their Destination Experts. Sounds like you have a grudge.
To the OP, maybe look for another hotel. Is your budget in GBP, euros, or dollars? If dollars, what kind? London is an expensive destination. The Premier Inn County Hall and the Limetree Hotel are a couple of reasonably priced choices that many praise. Or Priceline may be the best bet for you. -
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$120-$150 US. yeh, i tried the price line bidding. trying to score some last minute deals, but was focusing nearby the westminister abbey area, bloomsbury. wanted something closer than my current notting hill/bayswater area. would love to score the tower for $80/nt.
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qwovadis, what was your bidding priority in the zones for priceline?
i've been doing
1. bloomsbury
2. mayfair soho
3. westminister
4. the city and london bridge
would that be your preferred accommodation locations in order of preference? -
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I frequently use booking.com and have never been negatively surprised or disappointed. I look at pricing, amenities, location, etc., and at the score of the hotel. I've found that 7.5 is usually ok -- depends what you find in the reviews that matter to you ( I couldn't care less if it has a kettle in the room, for instance, but not having one can cause another person to downgrade the hotel). I prefer to find something in my price range with a rating of 8.0 or above. I also read tripadvisor.com and have posted several times on that site. I disregard any review that is the poster's first review. I feel that if a poster has reviewed many hotels, the comments might be more reliable. Just a hunch. Like a previous poster on this thread, I always check the hotel website, booking.com, Expedia, Venere, etc., to see which price is best. I've used all of them and never been disappointed.
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I think the key to finding a good accommodation is to look at more than one reviewing site or book. I've used tripadvisor for years in the US. I've posted my hotel reviews myself. I've never been steered wrong. BUT, I read lots and lots of reviews. Some of them seem fishy (only 1 post, too much generic praise) so I discount those reviews. I also google search the hotel and see what comes up. I also go to google maps and check out the surroundings on street view. I also look at Fodor's, Frommers, etc. Sometimes I private message people who've stayed at the hotel. My family teases me about my research obsession!
I haven't been to Europe since pre-internet days, so I haven't used Tripadvisor or Booking.com for the UK. I have noticed that, in general, more of the reviews seem fishy to me, especially for London hotels. -
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I think TripAdvisor reviews need to be approached with a great deal of caution. There are just too many gushingly good or crushingly bad reviews from people who signed up on the day they left the review and have made no other contributions since. There are a number of bad reviews from people who got bees in their bonnets about something trivial or irrelevant. Apparently there are an increasing number of reviews praising a particular member of staff by name, apparently some hotels now reward staff on the number of such reviews they generate. However if you look for recent, objective reviews from people with a number of sensible reviews to their name (you can see their other reviews), you can glean some helpful information.
I think qwovadis makes a number of valid points. TA has gone from being a useful user-to-user forum to something controlled by Expedia which is primarily interested in advertising and bookings. It's about quantity not quality. I used to be a regular contributor to reviews and forums but gave up because I became so disillusioned by the number of fake reviews (which management seems to be unwilling to do anything about) and the way in which advertising and booking was coming to dominate the site. -
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We have used Bookings in five countries both for large cities and small towns and have not had a problem with them.
I cannot abide TA. Besides people writing dishonest reviews, good and bad, half the people who write real reviews, have no idea of which they speak. I live in NYC and the TA restaurant reviews are basically written by visitors who have no idea where to get a excellent inexpensive or moderate priced meal. -
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i do the same as NinaSearching
So my process goes something like this:
(1) go to booking.com, put in location + dates, filter by price I want to pay (etc), find 3-4 hotels to investigate further
(2) go to TripAdvisor and read reviews for those 3-4 hotels, narrow to 1-2
(3) go to Fodor's and Frommer's, do search for those 1-2 hotels, narrow to 1
(4) go to that hotel's website, confirm that I like it, also check whether price is better than on booking.com
(5) book either at hotel site or back on booking.com
works most of the times -
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I think TripAdvisor is getting a little better. They now seem to listen and check out complaints about suspicious reviews. In the last month they have placed a red warning on the review pages of three Mykonos hotels and removed the reviews that were flagged to them. If you haven't yet seen what the warning looks like check out this hotel:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g189430-d250644-Reviews-Royal_Myconian_Resort_Thalasso_Spa_Center-Mykonos_Cyclades.html -
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I use booking.com and hotels.com back to back. I am registered with hotels.com so I get a free night after ten stays, which is a good deal. Booking.com is FULL of up to date and valid information. I have stayed in several countries based on recs here and have no been steered wrong yet.
Dislike TA and don't think Fodors has enough (work in progress!) -
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@ thisblonde -- Thx for the heads up about hotels.com. I can't believe I didn't know about the 10 nights / 1 night free ... Bummed I didn't know that 3 months ago when I started booking
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trip advisor reviews are not at all dependable...i usually google the name of the hotel and the word review...reviews from a variety of hotel websites will appear and i read three or four before booking. i have just started using hotels.com and i cannot say enough good things about their customer service..they will always price match anyone else's price and when a hotel i booked was not what i expected when i arrived they refunded a night's stay, even though we stayed at the hotel. trivago.com is a great website for price comparisons.
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As the owner of a small hotel in alaska I can say without a doubt that trip advisor can be and is used to post false "Customer reviews". One of my stories.
A review of my property was posted listing several complaints the problem was that in describing my place it was apparent that it was written about a different property located down the block. I had no way to get this dropped or reviewed by trip advisor. Stor 2
I have seen comments posted by different members at different dates useing the identical text again no recourse with trip advisor.
Trip advisor seems to prefer negative comments as this appears to add credibility to their site.
Trip advisor also offers paid membership to property owners calling into question the reliability of their reviews. Pay more get better comments.
Dont believe everything you read represented as customer reviews posted by any on line service.
Check to see if subject property has a web site, 800 number ect contact the property directly and ask questions re: poor reviews most properties are glad to discuss poor reviews.
In our case we pay much more attention to negative comments than positive.
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I've found Tripadvisor helpful. I also gloss over the first-time reviews. For the others, I click on the reviewer's name, see where else they've stayed, and try to determine whether their taste lines up with mine.
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I always look at the photos on TripAdvisor. I find them very helpful to see what the place really looks like. Then read the reviews with caution.
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Does Booking.com really charge your credit card only after you arrive? They say on their site that you can book for reservation now and only get charged once you arrive at hotel and check in.
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Yes, unless you are getting a special non-refundable room rate, booking.com won't charge your credit card upon booking. If it's non-refundable rate it will be clearly told so in their website. Personally, I find it as one of the best site around with all inclusive ates on te front page and clear info about type of rooms, inclusions etc.
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Hi grey,
In today's world, there are people who are paid to write reviews, both good and bad. These folks aren't confined to reviewing places they have been.
The more blatant ones are easy to discern, eg, 22 ++++ reviews followed by someone who says the the room was too small, smelly and had bugs.
The better ones seem to be reasonable, so that the only thing you can do is to read between the lines.
I check several places before making a short list, and then I come here for evaluation.
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I have used Booking.com a lot and I generally find the reviews fairly accurate. Unless I'm mistaken, you have to have stayed at the hotel in order to submit a review, as they email you after the stay to invite you to submit a review, so that cuts out anyone who hasn't even stayed at the hotel in question.
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it doesn't have to be an "either - or" choice.
If you type in the name of the hotel and the city, it'll appear on google maps. Click on the "bed" icon on the map and in the bubble, there will be "reviews" and the number of reviews, as well as a combined star rating. Go and read those reviews. They are gathered from many sources: TA, bookingdotcom, venere, qype, hostelworld, etc. -
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I have looked at reviews then stayed at the property and wondered where the person stayed at because I had no problem. I am not sure how useful they are I look at them and unless they have a lot of negative I usually go ahead and stay there. I have found that mostly unhappy negative people complained about properties even if there is no problem, like small rooms and unfriendly staff which usually means they got back what they projected out. And you can see it in the review however the person who has a real problem will write it in another way.
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I was a little concerned this year, because When looking for a Rome hotel/B&B this past May for a September week, I read a number of glowing reviews on Trip Advisor, so I emailed the writer of one of the reviews and asked her advise (because some places don't have their own websites.) She told me how to reach them, and I did, but the owner was very helpful, and gave me contact info for several others as they were booked. That is how I found Deko Rome. I booked a double for a week at 90 euro cash per night (100 credit card). Then I freaked out over the next couple of months as this brand new, 6 room B&B shot up to #1. oh oh oh...was this an instance of fake reviews? Well, as our week's stay is just now drawing to a close, I have to say, it is 100% sure that every review is a honest one. The locstion is excellent. The rooms spacious, the baths terrific, the hosts personable and extremely helpful. So, that is just my experience, with one hotel, in one European city, and yes, the advise to read all reviews is good. And sometimes all those praises are deserved! Now, i did learn to trust Serena and Marco for restaurant recs in all parts of the city, over TripAdvisor. One day we took a TA recommendation for lunch, over Serena's suggestion, and were truly sorry.
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Do not use booking.com I have been left with out a booking and they have not assisted at all. My flights have been wasted and my holiday ruined!
I have used bookin.com for several years and always found them to be a great website. However that has recently changed.
After using them loyally to book up to 6 trips a year, I was very disappointed when a booking with a hotel in Paris was cancelled with out prior warning. This is most unusual and so I contacted booking.com
I initially booked in July however the hotel kept bouncing my booking stating invalid card, so I emailed the hotel directly to state the card was valid but was a debit card not a credit card. I then received an email from the hotel confirming my details were fine and my booking was confirmed.
Therefore I was very surprised so receive an email from booking.com on 2 months later to advise it was cancelled due to invalid card details.
I contacted them immediately and advised of the email I had, at first they said the hotel had tried my card 3 time s and there were no funds. This was not correct, and I knew the card had been preauthorised in August with out problem. Also the booking I had made required no immediate payment and normally they debit your account for a nominal amount to check the card is valid. When I spoke with customer services in America they were very helpful and advised if I could send the email I had they would resolve for me and arrange accommodation. I did this. However when I contacted customer services to check they had the email I had sent, The Amsterdam office was a very different experience. They advised there was nothing I could do as the email was direct from the hotel. (Which booking.com new the day before) I am very distressed with this as I have booked and paid for flights and now have no accommodation. They were very unhelpful in this office and even though I advised I was very distressed as my holiday was now ruined they advised They would terminate the call as there was nothing they would do! I will never ever use them again! -
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A someone who has worked in the industry for 20 years I would like to give the other side of the argument. (1) star ratings are not just on facilities in fact that is the least important part of your rating in the UK anyway. If you look at the AA web site you can clearly see how they rank each section for example to get 5* you have to get about 90% or above in each section with one of those being housekeeping so in theory a 5 star rating should mean very clean. (2) booking.com is an online travel agent you have to join up with them and a lot of places don't want to pay the 15% commission they charge especially if they have a really nice place and good web site of their own they don't need to. (3) I would say however Booking.com and Laterooms reviews tend to be more accurate as the reviewer has usually stayed however do know people within the industry who make cheap bookings with themselves to leave good reviews. However one of these was caught by Booking.com and chucked off so there is some policing. I would prefer to have some right of reply as though it hasn't happened to me it is to others where people have thrown up in a room, caused damage and even physically threatened owners and said if you report/charge me I will give a bad review. (4) Tripadviser and Expedia are now technically 2 companies as it was deemed unfair competition however expedia is their biggest contributor to their advertising budget so its not like they have no say. (5) if as an owner you pay for a business listing you basically get a link to your web site it does not in any way stop you from having bad reviews published or any kind of censorship capability as I know people who paid and will not be renewing as they have had no benefit from it at all. I believe the way to go is look at reviews but look at about 20 and get a general picture. I would also point out that in a lot of cases you get what you pay for, if its too cheap or has avaliability when no one else does then there is probably a reason.
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>>I am amazed by the number of Brits whose sole complaint about almost all hotels is "no kettle in the room."<<
Off-topic, but a kettle to make your own tea or coffee in the room is customary in the UK, for all but the kind of places where one expects room service for everything. How else are we to get our fix (if you don't, as I do, make room for a travel kettle, just in case)? You don't want to meet Brits who've been denied their early morning cuppa, believe me. -
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How do you feel about Londontown.com? I just booked the Sloane Square Hotel for August after looking at Tripadvisor.com and Booking.com, and compared reviews, cross-checked websites, etc. It seems like a decent price (considering the time we're going) and I have a confirmation number directly from the hotel. I still have my much cheaper Bloomsbury B&B as a stand-by just in case. And yes, a majority of the reviews mention the small rooms, but that seems to be a given in London, and the amenities and location seem to make up for that.
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Kate_HanlonSotiro : Londontown is a lot of folks 'go-to' site for finding rooms in London. A very useful resource. It won't always get you the best price -- but often does. (not counting the blind bidding sites like Priceline and Hotwire)
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The thing I like on Trip Advisor is there is a PM (email system) that you can write the person who wrote the review and ask them about it.
I don't blindly trust TA reviews, but I think it is the best resource for reading thru reviews. I pay attention to the other posts the person has made (if it is their only post and a glowing positive or trashing negative review I ignore it).
You also have to read between the lines. Some people are never happy. Some people blame the hotel for the weather, etc. -
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I have rules for reviews on any site....
1. Any review that starts "it was my honeymoon, birthday, random day I thought of and while an upgrade would have been nice I didn't expect it" should be IGNORED! Yes, they expected the upgrade and when they didn't get it they went on to have a chip on thier shoulder and WHINE about ANYTHING (I literally once saw a Trip Advisor reivew where a woman crawled UNDER a AC unit to take a photo of rust LOL!)
2. Any review where they crawl under the AC unit to find something or seem to be on some type of search "there was a chipped piece of concerte on the back sidewalk next to the staff entrance to the hotel" ... run! I have a friend like this... she could find something wrong with anyyplace she's ever stayed..
3. If they indicate "I told the manager if they didn't compensate me I would post bad reviews" RUN! Yes, folks this has become a trend.. EXTORTION!
4. If the review includes "the airline lost my luggage, the food on the airplane was inedible" etc... proceed with caution. I know a woman who posted bad reviews for months on TA about a hotel in Orlando because she somehow thought it was the hotel's job to get her luggage from USAir after the airline lost it and when they couldn't do it, she began a personal vendetta...
Then you can check thier other reviews. If the reviewer has reviewed 25 places and ALL of them were bad... well attitude is everything in life -
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I also am wary of posters who always receive rude service from staff. That's their big complaint. No matter where they go... the staf at hotel reception, waiters, taxi drivers, everyone is RUDE to them. Hello folks, you might want to take a look in the mirror!
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Lindy27 has it right. Always check how many reviews the person has done. I ignore anyone with just a few and check their other reviews to make sure they don't have some vendetta going. I have been using TA for years and so far all has been great. I have even rented three apartments with flipkey. I also use booking.com and have had success with them but do the same. Read many reviews and take it all with a grain of salt.
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I book most of the time on booking.com, unless the hotel offers a better rate. They deserve the commission because they attract more traffic than the hotel sites and they format the information in a consistent way which makes it easy to find the kind of amenities offered. Information is pretty comprehensive and it's easy to find the locations of hotels relative to the places you want to visit in an unfamiliar city.
As far as reviews, I do cross-reference most of the time with TA. That is because when you google the hotel, TA review is one of the hits. All the factors mentioned are worth considering, such as the number of reviews by the reviewer, the high and low reviews, etc.
Another factors is, I'm wary of places which have too few reviews. Sometimes they have a rate that sounds too good to be true in terms of location and amenities but only a handful of reviews.
It seems places which have dozens or hundreds of reviews on both booking and TA more or less have about the same relative rating on both sites. Wisdom of the masses seem to aggregate towards the truth. -
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"Hotels can prevent poor reviews on Booking,com"
Hotels can prevent dissatisfied customers from giving poor reviews on booking.com. The hotel reports you as a 'no show' (whether you stayed, paid whatever), and then Booking.com do not send you a feedback form, and if you ask for one, Booking.com will not send you one, unless you kept your receipt. On a recent tour of Sri Lanka, this happened to me twice - the only two disappointing hotels on the whole 10-day trip. Hotel ratings on booking.com are probably inflated, particularly for hotels wise enough to know how to play the game. Also, most hotels charge your credit card in advance of your visit, so if you arrive but do not like what you find, you are very likely to be charged the full rate anyway. It is more of a purchase.com than a "Booking". I preferred the hotels I found through Agoda this trip. -
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I like to read both reviews of booking.com and Tripadvisor and then go to my own conclusion. I also like to book hotels, B&Bs whatever that have a score of more than 8.5 on booking.com or 4 and a half starts or more out of 5 on Tripadvior. But sometimes, I notice that when there are a few reviews on any particular accommodation, say only 3 or 4, then Tripadvisor might only give an average of 4 stars, when say 3 out of the 4 reviews would have given a full score.
I do sometimes book with booking.com when I book a last-minute holiday, but still like to double-check on the website of that particular accommodation to make sure that booking was passed on. Never encountered any problem though, it always passed through. However, I prefer to choose my accommodation from Tripadvisor and Booking.com, and then book directly at hotel or B&B or whatever website, and book online with them or even better, email them asking for a special offer, especially so if this includes half board etc (which is never bookable on booking.com) -
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I have had good luck with hotwire.com in London and elsewhere. I've also found their reviews helpful, and the % who recommended a hotel is a decent gauge of how well I'll like it. -
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I don't recall too many prompts to write reviews on booking.com, and I've used them a lot to book.
Lot of hotels have hundreds of reviews so if they're suppressing reviews, it's not that evident.
I was looking at some local businesses on Yelp and found out that they aggressively filter out reviews which they think are fake. Yet in one case, they had 4 reviews and 8 unfiltered ones.
And you can't see why they filtered the ones they did.
Booking.com is of course in business to get you to book so negative reviews are bad for their business as well as the hotels. But there are plenty of hotels with middling or even poor reviews.
Like others, I consider their reviews along with tripadvisor reviews and any other source to decide where to book. Most booking.com reservations do not require prepayment, though they do require a credit card in most cases. Some require advanced payment in return for a lower rate. Comment has been removed by Fodor's moderators
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Firstly, I find the Booking.com website and android app very good. I have booked many hotels through their site. I check the reviews and generally make my decision after careful consideration. This theory would fine if it wasn't for the fact that Booking.com do not allow some negative reviews.
My wife and I stayed at the Best Western Hotel in Krabi, Thailand. Everything was great until the hotel security accused my wife of being a prostitute. This was quite upsetting and an apology was eventually rung out the staff. What I found depressing was that when I asked to speak to the hotel manager in order to voice my opinion he asked his staff who I had booked with. When he was told Booking.com he refused to even speak to me. The conclusion I drew was that had I have booked with another company that had some clout I would have received an apology but as I booked through Booking.com I wasn't worth even speaking too.
I posted a review stating exactly what happened. My review was refused!
Conclusion, be careful about reviews on Booking.com, clearly negative reviews are not always permitted. Customers of Booking.com may be treated as the lowest of the low.
This is the response from Booking.com, I assume poetic license is the keyword with Booking.com....
We have approved the score you left for the hotel but we will not be able to display the comments.The reason for this is that the review comment fields are exclusively for positive and negative comments about the hotel. All complaints about Booking.com should be addressed to our customer service team for further investigation.
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The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) has been awarded $4.25 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities among minority populations. The OSDH Chronic Disease Service is one of 40 organizations selected, from 22 states across the country, to take part in CDC's Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) initiative.
The REACH initiative will support local efforts to address and overcome the unique causes of health disparities among the American Indian population in the Southern Plains Area of Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. The funding will be used to address cardiovascular disease and diabetes through training and policy changes focusing on reducing risk behaviors related to physical activity, nutrition, breastfeeding, and tobacco cessation.
"We are extremely pleased to receive this funding to continue the great work accomplished with our American Indian tribal partners," said Secretary of Health and State Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Crutcher. "The successes of our tribal partners and the Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa over the last seven years are numerous."
Along with the Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa, the project's eight tribal partners include the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Cherokee Nation, Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and Wichita and Affiliated Tribes of Oklahoma.
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I recently got a wall hung Aquia installed to save room (which it didn't after all because we had to move a wall out to fit the tank!!) and it doesn't flush properly. Regardless of whether it's the big flush or the small flush, neither of them cause the water to completely exit the bowl. The water goes down until it reaches a few inches above the drain and then just stops going down anymore. Please see video:
The Toto engineers think that the toilet isn't connected properly to the vent stack, but our contractor checked that and it seems to be fine. Has anyone else had this problem and how did you fix it?
How does it work when you dump a five gallon bucket down?
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Lulu the Fae Sorceress! A fairy champ I've been dying to have!
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Her E skill, Help Pix! reminds me of Orianna's Command: Protect that first shields and then follows around the champion with the addition that she can cast it to an enemy champion to deal damage to them. Also her passive is a bit similar to Orianna's since auto attacks do bonus damage.
Her Q reminds me a bit of the stuns that Lux and Morgana have but it just doesn't stun, instead slows enemies quite hard and somehow it can be shot in two ways, but I haven't played her enough to know better. But since weekend is coming, I'll be playing her more. :)
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Transport weaknessDear users of the community, i have found an old post about a very bad design of max transport and an erroneous use of BMP concept. I am not into polemical speech but i simply want to do a 6/8 piece that, like 99% of music in history has 2 BEATS and every beat should be a DOTTED QUARTER NOTE. Who ever has taught that a BEAT IS A QUARTER? how can we tell to MAX that my chosen tempo, let's say 66BPM should be related to the true metrical division (dotted quarter) instead of a purely abstract and musically irrilevant quarter note? another question, and thanks for support. why even if i do a rewind i cannot update the time signature of master transport via a timesig command in the patcher (the extras window of global transport don't get updated) thanks, |
Dec 14, 2010 at 1:47pm
Hi there, If I understand correctly, the problem is that you can not generate dotted quarters right? here is a small example, not using the global transport: – Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –
Copy all of the following text.Then, in Max, select New From Clipboard.
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Dec 14, 2010 at 2:14pm
It's a convention in computer music that bpm actually means "quarter notes per minute". We decided to just stick with that. Yes, it is kinda wrong, but if we want our songs to play at the same rate as Protools and everything else we have to do it that way. It might be a little awkward, but I believe you could write something which worked around it. Display your "BPM" as actual BPM / .666666 etc -A |
Dec 14, 2010 at 3:02pm
thanks for your helping :) it was my first post! Alessandro |
Dec 15, 2010 at 12:55am
"THIS HAS BEEN THE USE FOR THREE CENTURIES AND WORKS REALLY FINE before some smar people probably thought that everybody must BECOME 4/4 120BMP LOOP-MINDED." if you're going to make an attempt at being some lofty, revolutionary hero with a grand statement of your ideals, at least learn to spell 'BPM' right. ________________________________ |
Dec 15, 2010 at 11:10pm
a beat is a beat is a beat |
Dec 15, 2010 at 11:37pm
진짜 무당은 그런 말을 하지 않을 것 같은데요… :) |
Dec 16, 2010 at 12:03am
나는 한국 몰라. 가뜬 소리 하지 마 거야 (^_^) |
Dec 16, 2010 at 12:26am
ha, google translate is horrible. i wish i was special enough for the decoder ring ;) ________________________________ |
Dec 16, 2010 at 12:42am
mudang means shaman in Korean so I am just riffing on his screen name. It's actually surprising how much of that google translate got. I said "I don't think a real shaman would say such a thing" which is not that far off from what google coughed up. A real shaman would also be upset with how computer music programs deal with compound meters since the lion's share of Korean music is in compound meter. I share the OP frustration. |
Dec 16, 2010 at 1:01am
I meant to say, that i don't really know korean/korea, so i will stop to speak rubbish… To be honest, i've never used the transport. For my understanding of rhythm it's sufficient to have a simple, underlying pulse. This allows arbitrary subdivisions and polyrhythms. The perceived tempo is a different story. That's what i meant with "a beat is a beat…" BTW, this is also what i hear, when i listen to korean samul nori, for example: An underlying pulse…this might be due to my lack of understanding the compound meter, of course. |
Dec 16, 2010 at 1:38am
It's not that there isn't a pulse. In fact that there is a pulse is pretty much the point. The difference is that the primary division on that pulse is triple and not duple. You feel a quick 6/8 as 2 with a nice round triple division not as 6 individual beats (unless you play very very slowly, in which case the hierarchy perceptually flattens). Part of what makes that music so fluid, rich and and propulsive is the many metrical layers in play and how the individual musicians play with that within their parts and how those musicians fit their parts together by syncing on a meta level their breathing. It's a like a stream with many currents. Nothing is square. 2 measures of 3/4 take up the same space as 6/4. But they are hardly the same feel at any decent clip. Most music in 6/4 (or 6/8) can be rewritten in 3/4 just as 12/8 can be written in 4/4. But with such a constant undercurrent of 3 division that would just be pissing in the wind. But as Andrew points out there are work a rounds. back to your regularly scheduled programming… cheers, kp |
Dec 16, 2010 at 2:56am
ah, it's good to find out the meanings! i love korean, but only know basic words. kamsahamnida! to both of you. ________________________________ |
Dec 16, 2010 at 5:12am
I'm with ratox: wouldn't it be wonderful if music software tools in general became even just a little more sophisticated, rhythmically? Slicing and warping is cool, but that's about as far as it goes… The fact that Live can exploit the feature to the degree that they do is a testament to the potential of rhythmically-focused DSP. |
Dec 16, 2010 at 7:13am
most people would agree with ratox. not as many would be so passionate. still fewer would be able to put it so wisely as ztutz. ________________________________ |
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