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Old Oct 12, 2015 | 6:04 pm
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big_mac
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: England, North
Programs: ihg plat, hh gold, hertz 5*
Posts: 634
Should 'Expert Reviews' be, in some way, qualified?
Calling some of them 'expert' at the moment is a little embarrassing, many contain at most one or two sentences actually about the hotel. In at least one case, the 'reviewer' had not even stayed at the hotel.

It works reasonably well, but seems quite unfinished and is painfully slow to just browse through. Some possible issues follow.
  • The opening page and map can be slow to load (~10 seconds).
  • Resetting the search term is equally slow
  • Going through two pages to get to the review(s) is cumbersome, particularly if there is only one review. The list of reviews page also has a lot of blank space.
  • Going back to the search page resets the filters and 'sort by' options
  • 'Most reviewed' is the default sorting option, but is possibly the least reason for a traveller to sort by.
  • The 'sort by' dropdown is not easily cancelled once activated (clicking on most other areas of the page does not remove it).
  • You cannot move the mouse to the hotel link in map view; once you open the popup, moving the mouse closes it again (chrome).
  • When you zoom in to the map, it would be helpful to filter the list below. Due to the point above, I cannot find hotels by location without typing the name.
  • Should the 'x comments' at the bottom of the hotel review page be a link to the comments? It's not so obvious that you have to go to the thread to see the 'comments'. (Presumably 'comments' means 'replies in the thread'; I'm not entirely sure that the different terminology really helps).
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