Some Park Reviews

2gypsies wrote:

KBOnTheRoad wrote:

accsys wrote:

2gypsies wrote:
I hope you do these reviews on this site so many more people can see it.

http://www.rvparkreviews.com/

I would second this suggestion. Any review in this forum is used very briefly if at all due to it being on the new list one day and forgetten the next. It is also hard to find in a search for a specific park in addition to being archived after one year. A review at RV Park Reviews or RV Parky will be there for years and easily found when researching a specific area.

Thanks for your suggestions however as I have said here previously (under a different handle)I almost never post to what are referred to in the business as "Mob Review Sites". The vast majority are "Gamed" by those with financial interests in higher scores for themselves or lower scores for their competitors. I have no wish to participate in that. I will say that as a former hotel owner I have personal experience with review sites. You must also keep in mind that there are many companies who offer their services to hotels, RV Parks and every other kind of business that gets reviewed that will ensure "positive reviews" for a fee.

Even if I reach only a few here that is fine with me.

Again thanks for the suggestion and thanks for reading the post.

You're talking about sites such as Yelp, etc. and for those, I agree. RV Park Reviews is nothing like that. It's owned by RVers and folks tell it like it is. The majority of RVers use these RV sites.

I am afraid not. I am talking about ANY review site. They are all being gamed by the owners and their competitors. Keep in mind I am not saying that ALL owners game the system only that ALL review sites are gamed. This makes their usefulness nil. This doesnt even begin to address the customer with a chip on their shoulder/axe to grind that posts terrible untruthful reviews out of spite. You can see these on any site.

I knew a man who owned a hotel in Thailand who so successfully gamed ALL of the review sites his hotel was rated no 1 in it's area just before he sold it. (He told me this himself after the sale)That rating helped alot in getting the price he was asking for. There is a lot at stake with these reviews that sometimes the regular person just doesn't see.

And it matters not who owns the site. Or who uses it. They can and are, all being gamed. Even the CEO of Trip Advisor admits in interviews that gaming is impossible to stop.

NOTE:
When I use the word "Owners" it refers to the business owners not the owners of the review site.