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Old Dec 22, 2010 | 7:44 pm
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Originally Posted by battensea
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.
I usually pick a few hotels based on price/location/etc., then look at tripadvisor's reviews. Rarely is the number 1 hotel the best for me.
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