Tampa Tribune:
TripAdvisor.com is known for the terse descriptions of hotel accommodations generated by travelers’ ratings that range from “The hotel room was clean and pest free” to “The worst hotel on the planet.”
Those travelers’ comments described the same property in Tampa, the Days Inn Airport Stadium at 2522 N. Dale Mabry Highway, which the most recent TripAdvisor.com poll ranked as the sixth “dirtiest hotel” in the United States and first in Tampa-St. Petersburg in a report released last month.
The Days Inn Busch at 2901 E. Busch Blvd and the Clarion Hotel & Conference Center at 2701 E. Fowler Ave ranked second and third “dirtiest” among Tampa-St..Petersburg hotels respectively in the TripAdvisor survey.
The “Dirtiest Hotel” rankings that TripAdvisors.com has published for the past four years are compiled from comments the travel research website gathers from registered members. They agree to lengthy conditions for filing reviews that generate annual Travelers Choice awards, including “Best Bargain” and “Best Luxury ” hotels. More than 20 million reviews have been posted since 2000.
Some hotels are not comfortable with the ratings, said Brooke Ferencsik, senior manager of media relations for TripAdvisor, which purports “to tell the whole truth about travel, the good, the bad and the ugly.”
