Originally Posted by ksen22

Earlier this month an IHG hotel in Europe offered me free breakfast (where none was included in the rate) if I agreed to give them a 10-point rating in a 'IHG Heartbeat' survey

I am sure I was not the only person offered such inducements for a high rating of the hotel and I cannot help wondering how widespreaf the practice is.

So how do you trust those hotel reviews that you see on IHG's site and even on third party sites, when some of them are the results of bribes?