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Old Dec 22, 2010 | 6:42 pm
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Originally Posted by dchristiva
As another poster said, you've got to READ the reviews, not just trust the star rating.
Visiting a foreign city, I am not about to read 25+ reviews x 150 hotels = nearly 4,000 reviews (could be much worse numbers for large cities).

The rankings used to be helpful in narrowing down which hotels' reviews to read. The rankings are based on reviewers' choices, which presumably are a distillation of the impressions described in their narrative reviews.
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