Antwerp · Belgium
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Suspicious-review evidence
≈133 possibly bought · 2018 top-rated reviews scanned
Explain how it works
We compare every 5★ review's word count against the global distribution. Hostels where unusually many top-rated reviews are suspiciously short — way under the typical length — start to look like the staff (or a boost-my-listing service) is padding the score with throwaway praise.
The detector flags reviews that are both top-rated and below a length threshold, then estimates how many of them statistically shouldn't exist. For this hostel we scanned 2018 top-rated reviews and 0% were suspiciously short.
Length z-score: 6.12. A z-score measures how far this hostel's distribution of 5★ review lengths sits from the global average, in standard deviations. 0 = perfectly typical. 1–2 = slightly unusual but within normal noise. 3–5 = strongly anomalous. Anything 10+ means the pattern is so far from the global norm that it's effectively impossible to get there organically.
This is a heuristic, not a verdict — it surfaces hostels worth a second look, not proof of fraud. Read the actual reviews below and judge for yourself.
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5-star hotel, however for the price you pay, you're getting your money
the only downside is the construction that is going on throughout the street outside the hostel, but that isn't the fault of the hostel... just a temporary side effect of making a nice city even nicer. the staff at this place is very helpful and friendly. the hostel provided separate rooms for studying, meeting people, cooking, and smoking. glass windows between all of these rooms give a sense of openness, almost encouraging people to interact! the rooms were expected from a hostel. you're not staying at a 5-star hotel, however for the price you pay, you're getting your money's worth. do bring a harder lock if you need to lock your things away in the room. the flimsy lock i carry, which works in some places, was of no use here as the lock would just open anyway. the lockers are also first-come first-serve rather than assigned... get there first to lay claim to one! I would stay here again!
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review their protocols and speak to the night manager but said they would not refund
Myself and a friend (both of us female) stayed here for a weekend away last weekend. We booked a private room with our own bathroom and were on a separate floor to the dormitory rooms. Whilst checking in there was a large group of men (around 20 of them) also checking in and the receptionist let us know we were staying on a different floor to them but if we had any problems or if there was noise the night guard was on call all night. We were reassured by this. The room was fine, small but very clean. We were woken up at 1.47am when someone knocked on our door but after we didn’t answer they left. We didn’t call the night guard as we weren’t concerned at this point as they had left. At 6.30am we were woken again by banging at our door. This time we could hear men in the hallway and they repeatedly banged on the door. We spoke to them through the door and asked them to go away and they kept banging every few minutes for 15 minutes. We heard them also knocking on the other doors on our floor (approx 8 rooms I think). We tried to call the night guard four times while they were outside our door with no response or call back. We didn’t feel safe and couldn’t get hold of the night guard whilst we felt harassed in our room. We waited until the men had been gone a while and checked out of the hotel around 8.30am. I called reception and let them know about our experience to which they were apologetic and said they’d speak to the night guard and asked if we could email them. I emailed them with attached screenshots of our unanswered phone calls to the night guard. The manager replied to say they would review their protocols and speak to the night manager but said they would not refund us for the night we didn’t stay at the property.
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Location close to city center Windows dont close properly you can hear the noise from the street and you can feel the cold wind comming in, also in the room one guest was smoking in the bathroom and the matress protector was dirty on arrival, lower bed does not have proper hight so very unconfortable to use always bent over, have told before in other reviews but no measures taken!
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在這裡住了一個禮拜，還蠻舒適的，廚房很大，廚具很齊全，公共空間很足夠，地理位置也很棒
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