Originally Posted by
Sunday
Cancun, for example, has a big problem in acheiving objective hotel reviews because so many of them are written by people who own timeshare weeks in the resorts. How objective can they be when they are wanting to protect their timeshare investment and their ability to sell off weeks?? Several of the Palace Resorts that are in
TA's Top 10 hotels list (by popularity ratings) are timeshare resorts-- and the majority of the reviews have been written by owners.
So I don't use TA for Cancun at all.
Ha! If there's a way to try to "beat the system," somebody will try.
I would think tripadvisor would delete these reviews if they knew about it. After all, you can't have owners review their property.