For Those Who Use Trip Advisor...
For those of you who visit TripAdvisor before booking hotels and such (as I do), I felt I should point out something I recently noticed which affects the overall ratings of any hotel listed/reviewed in TripAdvisor. Let me preface all of this by saying that I think TripAdvisor is just awesome! It is the best tool for any traveler. We recently stayed at La Quinta Inn in Springfield, Massachusetts. Overall, our stay was "fair" but there were enough problems to warrant looking elsewhere for rooms for our next visit to the area. While I was reviewing the reviews for La Quinta in TripAdvisor to see if maybe I missed something when choosing this hotel, I noticed that many of the good reviews for La Quinta were rather short and each seemed to be the same length as the other. Each of these "5 Star" reviews were around 50 words. Hmmm... that prompted me to look more closely... At the bottom of each of these short "5 Star" reviews is a line that states