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Dec 23, 2010 | 8:23 am

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dchristiva

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Join Date: Aug 2002

Location: Formerly HPN, but then DCA and IAD for a while, and now back to HPN!

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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'm not sure why you have to read about 150 hotels. You are unable to narrow your search based on location, other recommendations, price, etc.? I've never had to read reviews on more than a handful of properties in a city that's new to me. I suspect you're not exactly using all of the resources available to you.

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