Originally Posted by
francophile
Do people really use TripAdvisor as a source of information? It has the relaiability and credibility of Yelp
A quarter of the posts on TripAdvisor appear to have been written by the property's own marketing department, saturated with glowing compliments and breathless praise that could have been written by a seasoned fabricator with a bachelor's degree in marketing from a third rate university.
Another quarter of the posts were written by the property's direct competitors. Reading these posts conjure an image of the writer foaming at the mouth while composing these spiteful posts dripping with vitriol
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Welcome to the "
information overloaded" century, did you just notice that phenomenon on trip advisor? I see it everywhere for everything!
We have never had so much information and this information has never been so unreliable and therefore in absolute need of constant cross checking.
Which is why one has to use several sources, always.
Doing so in the case of the Park Hyatt Maldives, there are clear and reliable information like air con not working well.
If you want to pay 1000 dollars for a room under the maldivian sun with a so so air con, be my guest.
I say Hyatt should fix everything first and then raise their price to whatever level they see fit but charging 1000 dollars for approximate service is a disgrace.
By the way, Hyatt management answered to one of the trip advisor review.