Your post is very interesting for me. I have been a frequent Hotwire user over the years and use Priceline with even more frequency. I have been noticing a change with Hotwire over the past two years. I have had a couple of wins where the reported Trip Advisor did not match. I most recently had have had an incident where after I clicked the button, Pay this amount, they changed the amount on my billing on the next screen and they insisted on a screen shot of the price. I provided it and they then did not reply. When I complained again, they finally replied that they would remove the extra charge, but it might take 3 months or so, but I could get dollars to spend again with them right away. I also won a hotel in Madrid that has been on the Hotwire list here for years and they showed it having just 18 reviews and 100% recommended now. Now, the issue you have pointed out with this hotel is interesting. A December 2012 post states, 'What a transformation" Almost all the reviewers of this hotel with Trip-Advisor have only one review posted. Then, also very odd, is that this hotel has every single post getting a helpful vote. This inflates there rating. While if I was Trip-Advisor, I would research a property with this many single review posters and all with helpful votes, there is another issue. Trip-Advisor and Hotwire are owned by the same company. It seems hotels can now re-set their Trip-Advisor rating somehow. I wonder if this hotel really did just open in 2012 and find it odd that all the reviewers have been so helpful. I have about 80 Trip-Advisor posts out there and in years have only 50 or so helpful votes. While it does not help you, I had figured out this was this hotel by using a Hotwire foreign site. There they tell you over how many reviews a hotel has. This hotel says 25+ reviews on the international websites. The American Hotwire website does not provide this feature. So, if you know a foreign language, you can get one more piece of info prior to booking. Thanks for your post. Unfortunately, it will only help those looking at this particular zone, but it seems to be happening all over with Hotwire. Well, another point is that the 3 star currently on Hotwire also shows a 4,5 rating but is a Comfort Suites that is even farther away. I know that as it shows only 60+ reviews on Tripadvisor through Hotwire international sites.