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If that is also not available I do check
online. But for one there are so many websites that it has become confusing. I
still read user reviews but I concentrate on the number of reviews for a
particular property. For example if a particular Chennai hotel
had just two reviews and both of them were excellent, I would not really be sure
of it. However if there were 50 reviews of a property and it had a 3.5/5.0
rating I would trust it more! There have been just too many stories about hotel
review sites where reviews were planted or an attempt was made to pull down the
ratings of a competitor. Hence these days I trust online reviews only if I see
a large number of reviews!
However there have been times (long ago)
when I could just turn up at a place and decide which hotel to stay with! This
looks the most inelegant but there are things that work out well if you go down
this route! I agree not pre-booking can lead to anxiety but if it is not the
peak season I can always find a hotel after actually looking at the rooms and
the facilities! And as far as budget hotels in India are concerned sometimes
you just can’t be sure till you actually saw it! What do you think?
