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Moustache Goa Luxuria Anjuna

Goa · India

Moustache Goa Luxuria Anjuna

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61% MEH
High confidence 3,175 reviews
≈155 possibly bought
Sus 5★ reviews ≈155 possibly bought
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Suspicious-review evidence ≈155 possibly bought

≈155 possibly bought · 1774 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 1774 top-rated reviews and 1% were suspiciously short.

Length z-score: 7.48. 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.

  1. Confirmed paid 41 words 20%
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    Most of the reviews are paid. It’s a horrible place to stay. You can’t sleep at night because the hotel staff keeps chit chatting in the room. The property is filled with insects. Swimming Pool is shabby. Washrooms are not clean.

  2. Confirmed paid 55 words 20%
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    Miserable place stay away. Guy at check in was super rude and looked for excuses to disallow a paid check in late at night. Pics are misleading. Other reviews are paid for lies. Hotel is moldy and rotting, unsafe and disgusting. Million better places to stay in goa and this one should be shut down

  3. Suspiciously short 12 words 20%
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    Unhygenic rude dirty disrespect ful and full of fake pics and reviews

  4. Suspiciously short 37 words 20%
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    • Review-authenticity complaint reviews are fake

    Most of the other reviews are fake... non existent or falsely created google accounts that have 1 or 2 reviews only. Check real reviews on Goibibo, MMT STAY AWAY FROM MOUSTACHE. BEWARE They are scamming people throughout

  5. Suspiciously short 136 words 20%
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    What a sad place, you'd be asked to pay upfront, The staff is rude, the front desk lady has the sense of a fly banging into a glass window, she'll simply keep repeating the same thing without understanding. The dorm feels and smells like a locker room of a football team The food is expensive, the helper staff helpless. Denied giving an extra towel and even clean the room, constant power cuts The so called "private open shower" is practically a tap outside The pool will always be filled with loud families, playing shadi-cocktail music. No connectivity for Goa miles Btw, don't get fooled by the photographs, it's an old crimping property that will only question for hotel searching skills. P.S - After I told off the staff about a potential review, they suddenly wanted feedback.

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    Sublime!

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    Uu

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