I hadn’t realised the AA was significantly cheaper, so worth a look next time!newtimber wrote:I've gone with the AA and it's just so much cheaper. All people really want to know if that it's been assessed by someone. With so many online reviews nowadays, does anyone bother with ratings from VE anyway?
As for the value of an assessment, it acts as a differentiator when your property is in amongst a bucketload of others, and I’m thinking particularly on Facebook groups. Otherwise, it depends... (as always!)
Online reviews are basically meaningless as they have no baseline reference points and anything other than 5 blobs is considered a problem, verging on a disaster. The main purpose now served by online reviews is their threat value for guests looking to extort.