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Flag Motor Lodge

Perth · Australia

Flag Motor Lodge

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10% GODAWFUL
High confidence 4,311 reviews
≈120 possibly bought
Seriously don't stay here please
Sus reviews
≈120 possibly bought
Book here: Booking.com ≈$108
Suspicious-review evidence ≈120 possibly bought

≈120 possibly bought · 682 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 682 top-rated reviews and 1% were suspiciously short.

Length z-score: 9.32. 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 50 words 60%
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    • Reward tied to a review review, you get a free night

    Staff were friendly The rooms are dated, and the tap rattled everytime we turned it on, and the shower needed a good mineral clean. Be warned as they have a promotion on where if you leave a review, you get a free night accommodation, so it could be bias reviews.

    Australia
  2. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Cleanliness

    Australia
  3. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Everything

    Australia
  4. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Good

    Australia
  5. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    干净卫生

    China
  6. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Everything

    Australia
  7. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Everything

    Australia
  8. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Everything

    Australia
  9. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Everything

    Australia
  10. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    😲😲😲

    Australia
  11. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Sta

    Australia
  12. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Everything

    Australia
  13. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Cleanliness

    Australia
  14. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Location

    Australia
  15. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Central,

    Australia
  16. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Everything

    Australia
  17. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Location

    Australia
  18. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Bed

    Australia
  19. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Pratique

    France
  20. Suspiciously short 2 words 90%

    Clean N/A

    Australia
  21. Suspiciously short 2 words 100%

    Bed Nothing

    Australia
  22. Suspiciously short 2 words 100%

    Perfect Nothing

    Australia
  23. Suspiciously short 2 words 100%

    Clean tidy

    Australia
  24. Suspiciously short 2 words 100%

    Everything Nothing

    Australia
  25. Suspiciously short 2 words 100%

    Clean room

    Australia

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