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Hostal Asunción

Madrid · Spain

Hostal Asunción

Punk Score
23% SHIT
High confidence 3,627 reviews
≈108 possibly bought
Could still be good with enough luck and social skills, but not inherently social

What kind of place is this?

“Hostal” does not always mean hostel. This Booking-only property may be a private-room guesthouse or small hotel, with no confirmed dorm setup.

Suspicious-review evidence ≈108 possibly bought

≈108 possibly bought · 692 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 692 top-rated reviews and 1% were suspiciously short.

Length z-score: 8.32. 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 102 words 10%
    Signal trace
    • Reward tied to a review for a good review
    • Pressure to leave a review asked for a good review

    It's central They offered to help me and my uncle because I am disabled but for they asked for a good review as a favour. Finally,the help at the door never came because the guardian couldn't go out . However, they kept texting me in a what's app group about every movement, when we came from ,when we checkout. The door of the bathroom is not working. Is not broken. There is not hand lotion or soap. The internet kept stucking one day before our departure and they seemed not happy at all to help with that issue. I wouldn't recommend it

    Albania
  2. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Todo

    Spain
  3. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Cama

    Spain
  4. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    房间地域很好,出行方便

    Spain
  5. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Ubicación

    Spain
  6. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Súper

    Peru
  7. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Todo

    Spain
  8. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Ubicación

    Colombia
  9. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Todo

    Spain
  10. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Ubicación

    Spain
  11. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    wifi

    Spain
  12. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Si

    Spain
  13. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Ubicación

    Peru
  14. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Locacion

    Spain
  15. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Si

    Spain
  16. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Ubicación

    Spain
  17. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Acogedor

    Peru
  18. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Todo

    Guatemala
  19. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Todo

    Chile
  20. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Ubicación

    Venezuela
  21. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Céntrico

    Spain
  22. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    local

    Brazil
  23. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Todo

    Spain
  24. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Todo

    Spain
  25. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Normal

    Georgia
No bed bug reports in 3,627 analyzed reviews

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