petronella Posted April 26, 2009 Report Posted April 26, 2009 There's a hotel that came up on my search for May 4 to May 6 that I can't find in the hotel list on this board.The hotel is a 3.5* (sorry, posted wrong number of stars in title, it's 3.5*) in the Glendale - Burbank - Universal City area. It says that the hotel has a 4.0 out of 5 rating on TripAdvisor, with 160+ reviews.The amenities are:
thereuare Posted April 26, 2009 Report Posted April 26, 2009 For the 4* property as those the only two amenities shown... on my own HOTWIRE search for your dates i'm seeing a 4* property offered with more than just two amenities.Please use these PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links to begin your travel purchases. Please use this HOTWIRE and these PRICELINE LINKS: HOTELS, CAR RENTALS, and AIRFARE to begin your travel purchases
Colfax Posted April 26, 2009 Report Posted April 26, 2009 I made a separate search on TripAdvisor, and the closest one I can find is the Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn. The rating and number of reviews matches up and it's in the same area, but this one is listed as a 3* on TripAdvisor:TripAdvisor assigns two quality ratings for each hotel. There's 1) a Hotel Class rating, determined by TripAdvisor and 2) a Traveler Rating, based on votes by visitors who have stayed at the hotel. A hotel that TA calls 4* class might only have a 2.5/5 Traveler Rating. And a 2* class hotel might have a 4/5 Traveler Rating.Hotel Class ratings on Hotwire and TripAdvisor don't necessarily match. We don't look at them when trying to ID hotels....unless the discrepancy is large, like a hotel is 4* class on Hotwire but only 2* on TripAdvisor. It's only the Traveler Ratings that have to match. And in this case the Traveler Ratings (4/5, 160+ reviews) are a match for the Beverly Garland.I'm sorry but I don't have time now to check if any other hotels besides Beverly Garland have those ratings.
Colfax Posted April 26, 2009 Report Posted April 26, 2009 I made a separate search on TripAdvisor, and the closest one I can find is the Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn. The rating and number of reviews matches up and it's in the same area, but this one is listed as a 3* on TripAdvisor:TripAdvisor assigns two quality ratings for each hotel. There's 1) a Hotel Class rating, determined by TripAdvisor and 2) a Traveler Rating, based on votes by visitors who have stayed at the hotel. A hotel that TA calls 4* class might only have a 2.5/5 Traveler Rating. And a 2* class hotel might have a 4/5 Traveler Rating.Hotel Class ratings on HOTWIRE and TripAdvisor don't necessarily match. We don't look at them when trying to ID hotels....unless the discrepancy is large, like a hotel is 4* class on Hotwire but only 2* on TripAdvisor. It's only the Traveler Ratings that have to match. And in this case the Traveler Ratings (4/5, 160+ reviews) are a match for the Beverly Garland.I'm sorry but I don't have time now to check if any other hotels besides Beverly Garland have those Traveler ratings.
petronella Posted April 27, 2009 Author Report Posted April 27, 2009 For the 4* property as those the only two amenities shown... on my own HOTWIRE search for your dates i'm seeing a 4* property offered with more than just two amenities.No, there's a 4* that has more amenities and matches up with the Sheraton Universal, but there's another 4* that only has two amenities, Fitness and WiFi, and a 4.0/5 TripAdvisor rating and 60+ reviews. I can't find any hotels on TripAdvisor that match up with this.
thereuare Posted April 27, 2009 Report Posted April 27, 2009 Are you changing your search criteria in a certain way to get the 2 amenity hotel to appear as i'm unable to do so when searching HOTWIRE for your dates above.Please use these PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links to begin your travel purchases. Please use this HOTWIRE and these PRICELINE LINKS: HOTELS, CAR RENTALS, and AIRFARE to begin your travel purchases
petronella Posted April 27, 2009 Author Report Posted April 27, 2009 Are you changing your search criteria in a certain way to get the 2 amenity hotel to appear as i'm unable to do so when searching HOTWIRE for your dates above.Please use these PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links to begin your travel purchases.Sorry, the hotel doesn't appear on the dates above, I made a random search for June 16 to June 17, and it appears there.
thereuare Posted April 28, 2009 Report Posted April 28, 2009 Are you still traveling to this area next week OR would you change your dates for this alternate hotel?I made a random search...Do you intend to be in this zone in June as well? :)Please use these PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links to begin your travel purchases. Please use this HOTWIRE and these PRICELINE LINKS: HOTELS, CAR RENTALS, and AIRFARE to begin your travel purchases
petronella Posted April 28, 2009 Author Report Posted April 28, 2009 No, we haven't set the dates for the trip yet, so I'm just browsing to see what hotels are available in this zone, and I can't recall seeing that 4* before.
thereuare Posted April 28, 2009 Report Posted April 28, 2009 It can take a considerable amount of time to research and ID HOTWIRE properties... please firm your plans and be ready to commit to a purchase before asking for hotel identifications, as the hotels you ask about today may not be the ones offered once you're ready to commit to a purchase.Please use these PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links to begin your travel purchases.Thanks. Please use this HOTWIRE and these PRICELINE LINKS: HOTELS, CAR RENTALS, and AIRFARE to begin your travel purchases
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