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Negative reviews go unanswered

Reviews decide the next booking, and inside the house nobody reads them until a guest has written one

Typical for: properties that treat reviews as fate · businesses where the owner replies at night · houses with strong performance and a mediocre score

Documented by Hospis

Updated: 23 October 2026

How you recognize it

  • The score sits below what guests say to your face
  • Satisfied guests are never asked to write it down
  • Replies to reviews are boilerplate, or justifications
  • What reviews criticise repeatedly is never raised internally
  • A bad review is an upset for two days and then nothing
  • Reviews on Google, portals and the tourism site are looked at separately, or not at all

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Javier Torrente

Javier Torrente

Operations · Concept · Team · Palma de Mallorca
Works with protel · Mews · Mews POS · Smart Host
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His core focus: using reviews as quality control, ownership, a reply rhythm and recurring criticism brought into the weekly round.

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Olivia Torrente-Dorninger

Norte 47° · Sales · Revenue · Marketing, Palma de Mallorca
Works with protel · Mews · Mews POS · Smart Host
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Her core focus: turning reviews into an instrument, inviting satisfied guests, replies with a signature, effect on visibility and bookings.

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Cause fields and how to tell them apart

Reviews are the only marketing the guest produces. Properties that leave it to chance get random results.

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01

Satisfied guests are never asked

How you spot it

Whoever is annoyed writes unprompted. Whoever was happy needs an invitation, and never gets one. The reviews don't reflect the property, they reflect its outliers.

The way out

One fixed moment to ask: at check-out, by message the following day, with a direct link. Don't push, invite. The average rises because the middle finally shows up.

02

Criticism gets answered, not used

How you spot it

A bad review is followed by a reply, fast, emotional, defensive. What the guest criticised is never discussed internally. The same criticism returns three weeks later.

The way out

Reply short, calm, without defence, with one real next step. And internally: take the criticism into the weekly round and fix one point per week. Reviews are the cheapest quality control there is.

03

Nobody owns it

How you spot it

Reviews get read by whoever has a moment. When the owner replies it sounds personally offended; when reception replies it sounds like a template. There is no rhythm, no tone, no rule.

The way out

One person, one tone, one rhythm: read daily, reply within two days, review weekly. Whoever answers speaks for the house, decide that once, properly.

04

The patterns go unseen

How you spot it

Every review is looked at on its own. That “breakfast” appears in every third one, or “waiting time” ever since the staff change, goes unnoticed, because nobody counts.

The way out

Once a month, sort all reviews by topic: what gets praised, what gets criticised, what has changed. The result is the most honest priority list the property can get.

Frequently asked

Are we allowed to ask guests for reviews?
Yes, as long as you ask everyone and promise nothing in return. The portals do it themselves.
What do we do about an unfair review?
Reply calmly, correct the facts briefly, no debate. The reader of your answer is the next guest, not the author.
Do we need a review tool?
Useful for seeing several platforms in one place. It replaces neither the ask to the guest nor the internal round.

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Problem
Negative reviews go unanswered

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Related situations

Our service quality varies day to day

Without clear standards nothing is repeatable.

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We do nothing with our guest data

Repeat guests aren't won back deliberately.

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Review volume outgrew the team's capacity to reply

Hundreds of reviews, a handful of replies, and it shows.

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