Seville · Spain
Hub Hostel Seville
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≈191 possibly bought · 987 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 987 top-rated reviews and 1% were suspiciously short.
Length z-score: 12.52. 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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cash for a 10 star review
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reviews are fake
Most things are really good here. Excellent kitchen. Friendly English speaking staff. Amazing Location, very close to the river and the center. Supermarket 30m from the hostel and it open everyday. Internet pretty good. There's just one thing... Or two. Showers are kinda weak, low pressure and compared to other places they also take forever to get warm, which is a bit of a petty observation but still, haha. There's no sign that tells you it's the right hostel. Only way to find it is via Google maps and even then the front door only says "hostel". Whatever management this place has keeps up the terrible theme by not investing into proper signs or even decorations inside. It's rather blank. Its a really small place so it doesn't stand out that much tho. The absolute worst thing was an "offer" they give to people. "5euro in cash for a 10 star review". So regardless of how good this actually is, we can assume alot of those reviews are fake.
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reviews talk about bedbugs in room 3 and 5. They give you a refund
DO NOT STAY HERE. There are BEDBUGS in every room. We slept in room 4 and we were covered in bites and the other reviews talk about bedbugs in room 3 and 5. They give you a refund for the nights you have left if you complain about the bedbugs, but ask to not leave a negative review on booking so their rating stays good. The rooms are also very noisy. You can hear everything that's happening outside.
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Make sure to check GoogleMaps reviews before you book this hostel. Apparently the owner offers people money to post positive reviews here; you will find on GoogleMaps the rating is quite low and some people have reported pretty serious concerns. Pros for me: Close to the bus station. My bed was clean and fine for one night. Space under the bed to store small luggage, plus lockers in the room (though no locks provided). The person checking me in seemed nice (though our interaction was pretty limited). There are a couple of really nice bars a few minutes walk away, and some sights are really close by, e.g. the museum of fine arts. Very basic hostel, okay for a short night's sleep and nothing more. Note for solo female travellers - it's mostly mixed dorms and when I stayed, it was mostly fairly young men staying there, and a male receptionist. If that's something you're wary of, you might want to find a hostel with female only dorms as an option as you'd probably have more women there overall. Other things I didn't like: No atmosphere - no one was talking to each other, partly i think because the kitchenette area isn't a nice space to socialise in (just a few basic hard benches and fridge, kettle etc.) The only lights in the room were very bright, even the smaller ones, so it wasn't possible to turn any of them on without waking everyone else. Couldn't find a power socket by my bed. Rooms are stuffy as windows don't open. The lights in the communal areas are on a very short timer and would keep switching off after about 30 seconds which was very annoying and another reason why it wasn't very nice spending time there.
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DO NOT STAY HERE. This hostal should be closed forever. Not even worth its cheap price. So many better options in Seville. Edit (In response to the hostal calling my review fake, it is not. I had a friend stay here (who has already reviewed) and had a stranger enter her room with the wrong key, this is extremely dangerous. She was very shaken. Nothing about my review is fake. Vouching for a friend.
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Never felt safe and neither will you, unless you are a big, white cis man. FIRST OF ALL, THE OWNER ANSWERED OFICIALLY TO A ACCUASATION OF ASSA*ULT/ R*APE INSIDE A HOSTEL WITH HAHA AND VIC*TIN BLAMING. this can be found in the reviews of the most famous hostel site. Unacceptable, and dangerous. -There was a man BANGING on the hostel door violently and cursing everyone one night FOR HOURS before calling the police, as the rest of us, even awake, didnt open for safety reason thinking he was super drunk. The hostel the next days didnt toss him out, and just took 0 responsibility or action for him, and he continued staying in a dorm. Other than that, the owner was reading out loud bad reviews and laughing at them right in the center of the hostel, in front of us. That is how much he cares & respects his clients -and yes, I know I will get an answer that its a fake review, but obviously its not and these things everybody know they happened-
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性價比很高，離巴士站武器廣場只要走二十幾分而已，旅館那有廚房但必需注意始用時間，附近有大型便宜的超市ald，房間內有浴室，床單乾凈，櫃臺服務的品質很高，態度很好，夜間到一點。
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