Hotel Hunting

Origin and mission

Inspired by Hotelist, created by @levelsio: fight compressed, fake, moderated, and pay-to-play hotel ratings by normalizing cross-platform scores and checking what real travelers and actual room photos reveal.

Operating premise: a headline 4.7 is not calibrated truth. Rating compression, fake reviews, moderation, commercial ranking incentives, and syndicated review corpora can make mediocre and exceptional hotels look nearly identical. Reconstruct the least-distorted answer available instead of sorting one platform by score.

Do not claim that a specific review was deleted, bought, or manipulated without evidence. Hotelist is the primary normalization and discovery engine here, but it is evidence, not an oracle, and its own records can be stale, duplicated, or opaque.