San Jose · Costa Rica
Costa Rica Guesthouse
Suspicious-review evidence
≈93 possibly bought · 1067 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 1067 top-rated reviews and 0% were suspiciously short.
Length z-score: 5.87. 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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Location and price. i was in a dorm and In my room the first day I saw a small mouse. I told the front desk and they said they will send somebody to find it. The third night I was sleeping and in the middle of the night the mouse was on my bed. I complained and they offered me to change to another dorm in the same building, thats mean the mouse or the mouses will be around. I said better to call some body and they said they already made a desinfection a month ago. So I complained that still were mouses on the premises. They didn’t offer another place in different building (the place consists on three buildings) and the only answer was that they had made desinfection and they had made a complain to the people who did it. I said it was not ok and the woman on the reception said she can’t do anything. So I left and when I closed the door she run after me saying that I closed it too strongly and I had to leave the hostel. basically she kicked me out giving me the money for my 2 extra nights I was going to stay. it was not possible to do a review and I had to complaint to booking to be allowed for the review. The place is ok, but how you can rent a place where you know there are mouses and when somebody complain they just said “we know we have it but you need to stay there”.
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👌👌👌
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👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Costa Rica MALE 31-40 -
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Super
Hungary -
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Perfect
Hungary -
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広くて快適だった。スタッフは親切で色々教えてくれた。立地も歩いて中心まで行ける距離で、治安も大丈夫そうだった。
Japan -
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Ubicación
Honduras -
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Super
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Todo
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很頂的住宿
Taiwan -
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女生间超宽敞！还有阳台，很舒服！公共浴室男女分开，热水澡超棒！虽然整个青旅的前台、住宿区、公共空间分三个独立的部分，需要过马路，但是不影响它很棒。距离市中心的景点步行即可，位置也很不错。
China -
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Limpieza
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Limpieza
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Bien
France -
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Peru -
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Ubicación
Panama -
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Excelente
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Excelente
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这个区域很安全离市区也不远，私人房间很大很干净，有游泳池厨房餐厅瑜伽室，设施非常齐全、而且酒店内环境很棒！餐厅的餐食非常好吃价格又很便宜！酒店的接待员很认真负责，会帮助提供各种需要的tour、信息。性价比超强棒的一家旅馆👍
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Accueil
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各ベッドにコンセント、ライト、ロッカー(鍵は持参)、カーテンがあり便利。部屋とバスルームは広く比較的清潔。熱いお湯もちゃんと出る。チェックインのお姉さんはフレンドリーで丁寧。中庭もありのびのびと過ごせる。場所は鉄道線路沿いなので電車が走っているときはうるさい(昼間は20分に1本ほどの頻度)。国立博物館を過ぎたあたりから大通りの歩行者も少なくなり、夜歩くのは注意が必要。値段と施設のサービスを考慮するとお得だと思います。
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excelente
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