Hotel Rating Factors

When traveling, accommodations enhance your comfort and overall enjoyment of your vacation or business trip. Many guests read hotel ratings to help them choose where to stay. Although designed to be helpful, ratings can be confusing. A little knowledge about how they work can make them work for you.

Why Are Ratings Confusing?

Since organizations have different rating systems, criteria and standards, hotels can get conflicting ratings from multiple sources.

How Are Hotel Ratings Determined?

Usually a person doing the rating stays at the hotel posing as a guest. He evaluates the quality of the hotel, the decor, the amenities, the cleanliness, the furnishings and the condition of the room.

Other Factors Determining Hotel Ratings

The location of the hotel, room sound proofing, any ongoing construction, convenience of parking, and the availability and reliability of business services might be evaluated.

How Can Hotel Ratings Be Used?

Use hotel ratings as a guide. Even within different organizations, they will often be closely aligned. Furthermore, ratings may be accompanied by hotel descriptions that justify the rating.

Other Tools Complement Ratings

Ratings are useful, but guests can supplement them by viewing online visuals of the hotel and reading guest reviews to make an informed decision.

References

• Hotel Star Rating Explained
• Across America