Can-y-Bae Hotel rated number 1 in the UK
TripAdvisor rates Can-y-Bae Hotel number 1 in UK
Like many of you I’m convinced review sites can be trusted. They give a true and honest opinion about a place from the people who have first hand experience. OK, apathy and British reserve generally means good service is not publicly acknowledged anywhere near as often as bad. We are always quick to open our browser and rant about the overpriced starter, rude waiter, incomponent manager or dirty linen; but less inclined to do the same when the service has been unobtrusive and the standards high.
It is therefore very welcoming to see a Welsh hotel has been rated by its guests as the best place to stay in the UK. Now if this was some backwater review website with hardly any visitors we might expect this; but when the site happens to by called Trip Advisor and is probably the world’s best known travel recommendation service, then this means a lot.
For those who don’t already know, TripAdvisor provides recommendations for hotels, resorts, inns, holidays, travel packages, holiday packages, travel guides and lots more. According to their own stats, the TripAdvisor brand attracts nearly 32 million visitors each month and is used by over 20 million people to plan and book holidays. The site features around 1 million listings, including 25,541 hotels and other accommodation providers for the UK.
Can-y-Bae Hotel’s TripAdvisor Customer Ratings
Please join me in congratulating Can-y-Bae Hotel’s owners Michael Thompson and David Preece for having the best hotel in the UK. Your efforts and £1m investment have certainly delivered the rewards.
The only question I have is “Why is the UK’s top rated hotel not listed on VisitWales?”
Tags: Can-y-Bae Hotel, Trip Advisor rated number 1 in the UK, TripAdvisor
January 18th, 2009 at 11:09 am
My friend (who isn’t obsessed with Web2.0 sites as I am) mentioned this story i the pub on Friday - after I read about it here first.
He says that when he’s sent to Llandudno to cover annual (political) party conferences, this is the hotel his company always uses.
He can’t believe this is the top rated hotel in the Uk. Not that there’s anything wrong with it (apart from their TV ariel pointing towards north west England, so you get Granda and BBC North West rather than Welsh news), just that it’s very ordinary and bog-standard.
I do look at TripAdvisor now and again if I’m going away, but from reading the comments, I get the impression that users are of a certain age and their tastes/expectations differ to mine quite a bit.