You can now write a short review of the InterContinental hotel where you have stayed at on their website. Starwood launched a similar initiative late last year.
As always, I wanted to test this review process and decided to write a short review of InterContinental Manila where I stayed at this past May. You can access the review submission interface by going to http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/intercontinental/en/gb/locations/reviews/write-a-review/manila and switching the city at the end.
You need to have your reservation number, last name, and the date of check out available. It seems that they want to validate that these reviews are done by actual hotel guests.
Then you will give hotel the overall guest experience rating. As you can see, my stay at this property was very good.
You need to do a write up of between 75 to 500 words. I decided to point out that they honored most of the Royal Ambassador benefits even on an award stay.
Then you can check some pros and cons about the hotel.
I do have quite a few photos of this hotel but decided not to upload any of them.
They want some basic information about me.
You can then have a look at the preview.
Just submit and you are done.
Conclusion
It seems that leaving review of properties is slowly coming to all hotel websites. Personally, I prefer reading on an independent website like TripAdvisor or FlyerTalk than the branded site. I just always have a feeling that they really don’t want to publish reviews that are critical of the property in question.
There are also lots of rules regarding what you can write if you want your InterContinental review published. The terms are whopping 1139 words. The submission guidelines are somewhat reasonable few hundred words.
Let’s see if my favorable review of the InterContinental Manila will get published on one day.
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