Booking an hotel. Reviews, do they really help?

I tend to go for an overall rating. You are always going to find someone who has a bad experience.

 

Only people who can be bothered reviewing stuff are either really moaning or really happy, all the ones inbetween just cba leaving reviews.
My mrs reads reviews and feedback on every type of purchase she makes, I’m too busy

 

I'd always read the reviews. It depends on what the gripe was - if it was to do with service etc, I tend to think maybe the person who wrote the review was a kn*b??

 

I would say if there are bad reviews it must be bad.
Then again if there are good reviews

 

You should always read the reviews

Um, Original Source… can we talk?

I’d like to take you back to around 6.45am this morning, when I stepped into my bath, and found that my usual, rather innocuous bottle of shower gel (Waitrose essentials, Rose) had run out. A tad irritating, but fortuitously, I had a solution close to hand. A brand new, unopened bottle of your very own Mint and Tea Tree Shower Gel. My bodily cleanliness was assured once more. I breathed a sigh of relief.

I took the Mint and Tea Tree Shower Gel and began to work it into a lather. I applied it to first one leg, then the other, and shaved them diligently. (Yes, feel free to be impressed at my commitment to body defoliation at 6.45am on a Wednesday morning. I was too.) So far, so good.

I washed my arms and shaved underneath them. I washed my neck, breasts, stomach and back. Thus far, it had been a positively first class bathing experience.

And then.

AND THEN.

Oh. Dear. God.

MY VAGINA WAS ABLAZE.

For a moment, I wasn’t entirely sure what had happened. Had I repeated the never to be forgotten error when I managed to apply hair removal cream which was strictly not for front bottoms to my front bottom? Had a stray spark inadvertently set light to my pubic thatch?

BECAUSE IT *****ING FELT LIKE IT.

Yes, Original Source, your innocuous looking green bottle of so called shower gel, it turns out, is an absolute *****ing liability. MY FLAPS WERE ON *****ING FIRE. I had a quick look at the ingredients list to see if it contained gasoline. It did not. There was a warning though. ‘KEEP AWAY FROM EYES.’ Keep away from eyes? KEEP AWAY FROM EYES? Frankly, my eyes were the least of my problems right now.

I frantically scrubbed my flaps, which by now felt as though they were being ceremoniously scrubbed by ants wearing ice skates laced with chilli sauce. ‘7,929 tingling leaves’ claimed the front of the bottle. Tingling? TINGLING? This wasn’t tingling my minge. It was starting a *****ing bush fire down there. (Pun entirely intended. You can thank me later.)

Some twelve hours later, my front bottom has finally calmed down, though may well be suffering from as yet unconfirmed PTSD. My eyes have eventually stopped watering. And so, in the interests of public safety, I thought I would pen you this missive.

May I suggest a rebranding of the front of your bottles of Mint and Tea Tree Shower Gel? Something along the lines of the following:

‘7,927 tingling leaves which will accost your genitalia until it screams for mercy.’

If nothing else, it will certainly stand out on the shelf.

Anyways, thanks for brightening up my morning. And my front bottom, which has never been so lively.

Kisses, IKINTST xxx

 

Hotels ... read between the lines, if its a branded operator premier inn, travelodge, etc then not too bothered but if an independently operated one then might take more note, particularly if many reviews describing it as tired building, poor condition etc. pictures of bed bugs, worn furnishings, dirty sheets etc would certainly put me off.

 

dont worry, just go and enjoy Dublin, have a 'good crack', great place. Try a 'literacy evening pub crawl' and of course Guiness tour.

 

Hes right dont worry about hotel, Dublin is one of the best,try the Dublin bay oysters

 

Just expect to feel quite poor as the prices are high..

 

I don't read the reviews but Kath does,she loves all that .I would say that good reviews are left by the owners family and friends and the bad reviews are narked off people that expect the earth for forty quid

 

Does anybody actually say an hotel?

 

Only one place i`ve refused to stay , the owner agreed to give me a refund so long as i didn`t leave negative feedback !!
Probably why it had no negative comments ...

Place sold itself as a quirky `boutique` style B&B , threadbare carpets and woodchip , peeling off in places - looked great in the photos but the funiture was cheapo chipboard made to look cool with a coat of blackboard paint

Cheeky barsteward wanted £140 for the night , 40 quid would have been overcharging . Needless to say negative feeback was left after a refund was give a week later , followed by a call from an annoyed owner

 

They're like that at The Savoy. Strange folk.