One travel influencer suggests that many vacationers are falling prey to 'star snobbery'. The TikToker known as ' The Travel Mum ' even argues that two-star hotels often outperform their four or five-star counterparts. Taking to social media, she said: "Here's why you should be staying at two-star hotels.
I was shocked to the core when I did a recent poll and found out three quarters of you wouldn't stay in a two-star hotel. "Now, a lot of you felt that two-star meant it was a poor quality hotel but let's look at this two-star hotel with good reviews." She then zooms into a two-star hotel in Ibiza.
Its rooms were bathed in natural light and featured clean furnishings, with views overlooking the sea. "Looks really clean and modern, it's definitely somewhere where I would stay," she continued. "Now, let's have a look at this four-star hotel [in Portugal] that has bad reviews, it's the customer reviews we really need to focus on.
So, it looks really outdated as you can see, yet it has a pool and a restaurant these are things that are going to contribute to the star rating, not the quality. I would much rather stay at this two-star hotel when comparing this with the four-star." Star rating systems serve as globally recognised benchmarks of a hotel's quality, cleanliness, or overall standards.
Attaining more stars signals to guests an increased luxury experience. Yet, perceptions can sometimes deviate from what classifications like 'two-star' truly represent. SiteMinder , the worl.