Originally Posted by
YuropFlyer
I checked the reviews of the BW Park Hall Hotel & Leisure Club - edit: one review mentions any "refugees" (or anything similar - checked the two most recent review pages)
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Rev...d.html#REVIEWS
Others, either they got removed for being a fake review - then TA works exactly as it should - or you are making something up here.. ?
There are certainly plenty of fake reviews on TA - but I have the feeling you're crying over something non substantial/non existing here
edit: I found the review you probably mean:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserR...ECK_RATES_CONT
If you take into consideration the answer of the hotel:
"We did have some guests staying with us from Serco on a short term basis. These guests are no longer staying with us and we will not be accepting any of these booking in the future. "
It becomes quite clear that the hotel itself wasn't very happy about the situation.
I very much doubt that review being fake - it simply describes the situation as it was. Do you want to forbid people to review places as they feel like? I most certainly hope not.
That is not the only hotel. And that hotel had threats made against its refugee guests, which is why they responded with what they responded. The hotel ownership didn't want further public opposition in front of the hotel; it wasn't getting paid enough money to make it worth the hotel ownership's time to risk more bad reviews and public opposition, even as the guests themselves were not the problem except for some being a problem for themselves. Hopefully there are more hotel owners like the head of Nordic Choice hotels who won't be intimidated by xenophobic-driven TA "review" concerns or xenophobic threats/protests.
It's rather interesting that that hotel was willing to publicly share details about its guests and who paid up money for the mentioned guests. Seems the hotel management has rather a lack of respect for the privacy of the guests, refugees or otherwise.
Tripadvisor already reserves its right to forbid reviews which it wants to review and not publish. Reviews, by confirmed guests or fake ones, that make explicit racist or other bigoted slurs in the review are already subject to being forbidden, aren't they?