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The sorting orders are the most weird (but still way better than Airbnb where you control nothing and are doomed to scroll an infinite list). For example, teh s
by hdjjhhvvhga 4y ago
The sorting orders are the most weird (but still way better than Airbnb where you control nothing and are doomed to scroll an infinite list). For example, teh sort order I use most often is to sort by price, but I need to start from the most expensive offers as I'm looking for (the pretenders to the) best places in a given area. Unfortunately, Booking.com allows to sort by price in one direction only, so I have to start from the end and from the bottom of each page. Weird but easy to solve.
But what I hate is that they won't let me sort by rating! Why do they include ratings, though? They present several weird options I'd never use as they are optimized to land me with a place I don't want. I just want to sort by rating - and let me decide if the number of ratings received makes it trustworthy.
- lozenge 4y agoThose ratings are fake anyway. You can score it a 1 (actually the lowest option is 2.5) due to nearby noise making it impossible to sleep. But they'll also ask you to rate the cleanliness, service, and location(??) and suddenly your terrible stay is a 6.0 rating. https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-09-17-booking-com-manipulation https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-09-17-booking-com-manipula...
- splonk 4y agoI rant about the 2.5-10 scale on every Booking thread. It's not totally fake but it's very deceptive. When I had access to a large amount of rating data, the median rating on Booking was 8.1. If you can filter for business travelers (not sure if the UI allows this, but the data might still be in the page), that drops down to mid 7s.