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I can corroborate some of the high level factoids in this. I work for a company with a large set of hotel sentiment data that should be a superset of the data
by splonk 10y ago
I can corroborate some of the high level factoids in this. I work for a company with a large set of hotel sentiment data that should be a superset of the data in the linked post. It's probably around 35M reviews over several major sites.
82% of sentiments being positive sounds plausible. Ours is somewhat lower but still well over 50%. I think it's in the 70s. Practically speaking, I've had some really frustrating conversations with people in the industry trying to explain that a hotel can have positive sentiment and still be way below average for a given cohort.
Wifi sucks - that matches our data. Within the most common entities we extract, the only thing worse than wifi is "maintenance", which has a much lower occurrence rate. Unsurprisingly, nobody really talks about maintenance unless something's broken. Location is generally highly rated. Surprisingly to me, so is "service" and equivalents.
Anecdotally, the croissant thing sounds correct. A lot of reviewers use the example of cold croissants to describe an unimpressive continental breakfast.
- carterehsmith 10y agoAh, hotel Wi-Fi... maybe it's not as good as the one at home because... "in theory" you don't need it as much? Like, if you are a family on vacation @ beautiful Aruba, maybe management thinks that you will spend time on the beach, or golfing, or in spa or using any other of their 60+ carefully tended-to amenities? Perhaps they can't imagine the whole family sitting in their hotel room for 14 hours a day with 4 iDevices spread across Netflix/Youtube/Twitch, everyone complaining that they can't get more than 720p. Lol, who knows.