Before You Book, Beware the Hotel Photo Fakeout - ABC News - 0 views
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Oyster.com allows you to search for hotels and see photos and reviews submitted by actual travelers and secret reviewers.
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posting images to their websites of breathtaking views and enticing pools that sometimes owe a lot to the marketer's imagination or reflect additional luxuries not necessarily found in the real hotel rooms.
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hotel review website tries to capture the gritty reality behind those glittering hotel ads by posting their images side by side with the hotels'.
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You don't get to vacation all that often, and you show up and it's not exactly what you were expecting or what you were hoping for,"
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On the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill's website, a photo makes it look like the hotel is practically next door to the U.S. Capitol. It's close but not that close: The Capitol is about a quarter of a mile away.
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a room that looked spacious on the hotel's website actually measured a little more than 8 feet at its widest point, and there was a wall just 22 inches from the bed.
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This article, although posted in March of 2011, focuses on the misleading ads posted online by hotels. "Photo fakeouts" present "breathtaking views that sometimes owe a lot to the marketer's imagination or reflect additional luxuries not found in the real hotel rooms." Oyster.com has undercover researchers book into these hotels and take photos of the what the rooms and views really look like and then they post them on the website. Although what the hotels are doing is technically not illegal, this is a prime example of invalid information and why what you see on the Internet is not all valid.