The Hague · Netherlands
Will & Tate City Stay
Suspicious-review evidence
≈114 possibly bought · 1347 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 1347 top-rated reviews and 0% were suspiciously short.
Length z-score: 6.39. 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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rating. Can I be refund
One of the nights they hosted a dj in the space directly below our dorm. It was awful all night. So loud. Our room was vibrating. Can I be refunded a night? That was terrible, unexpected especially with a headache trying to get some rest.
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rating is just high because they incentiv
The trunks with 3 beds are horrible they are very shakey, the overall rating is just high because they incentivise you to rate the hostel for a beer or a coffee - in general the other rooms are may more enjoyable but the rooms with the 3 store trunks are super bad + it’s noisy
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Pressure to leave a review
told me to delete the bad review
I was threatened on booking.com for giving a bad review. They told me to delete the bad review. Be careful of these people.
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Clean
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Excellent
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Beste!
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Todo
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Ок
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All
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Rust
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还很好地方，就是床铺有三层
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Tout
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Gut
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Polecam!!!
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非常好的一次旅行
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Perfect
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Perfect
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good
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Super
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Sympathique
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Great
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Amazing
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좋았습니다.
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宿舍和青年旅舍布置一样，一天的行程过后回到这里会感觉很温馨，有公共厨房，单人洗浴室，床头还有充电插头
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很舒服温馨的青旅，工作人员很热情友好，很推荐哦！！交通很方便，离唐人街也很近，有很多美食
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