Do people from the UK have different standards for hotels?

I was extremely bored the other day. I read someone post regarding whether they shold stay at the Imperial Palace. I clicked on the Hotels link and discovered the IP rated #89 among T.A. Users I also noticed that the British in general rated this hotel highly.

I decided to do a little breakdown of the reviews. As I said...I was pretty bored. After 200 reviews (out of 700 plus) I had enough to see a pattern. Overall 65% of the reviews for the IP were positivie. Of the 200 reviews about 130 were from Americans and about 55% of those were positive and 45% were negative (75 to 55). Off the remaining 70 posts., 55 were from the U.K. About 90% of them were positive (50 to 5). Some of them even went as far as calling it comparable to a 5 star British hotel.

I have stayed at the IP on 3 occasions in the past and I only stayred there as matter of last resort. My first thought was ----are they nuts? Then I started to think---';Hey maybe 5 stars in the UK is considered to be just ok?'; And after all 50 out 55 can%26#39;t be nuts. Maybe they see something in the IP that we Americans don%26#39;t see.

So--UK posters--especially those who have stayed at the (P, could you explain how tyou view hotels differently from Americans. This is not intended as a rebuke. It is an honest curiousity on my part. Thanks in advance to anyone who responds.

Do people from the UK have different standards for hotels?

Dear VegasJohn,

I too have noticed that is a discrepancy between hotel reviews from people in the US and people in the UK (although my statistics were not quite so thorough!).

I%26#39;m not speaking for everyone in the UK, but for me, all that is really essential from a hotel is a clean and comfortable room and a good location. Many of the %26#39;complaints%26#39; from Americans seem to be - the staff were rude, the food was rubbish, the casino wasn%26#39;t up to much...

You havent paid for these things when you hire a room, and with hundreds of other places to eat or casinos to play in, theres no reason to stay in one place just because that is where your room is.

If it was my intention to spend lots of time in the hotel then I may be tempted to pay that bit extra for a bit of luxury, but usually when away from home I want to spend as much time out and about as possible (esp in Vegas!!) so there is no point paying over the odds for somewhere to sleep!

Paula, UK

Do people from the UK have different standards for hotels?

Could it be that price is the deciding factor,the cheaper the better,just a thought.

We have stayed in many hotels in the US,mainly in Florida ,California and Vegas.What people from the UK will be judging a hotel on will be Price,and what you get for your money.For comparision we have the chain Travelodge.A lot like the ones in America but ours are unlikely to have pools or restaurants and will cost in pounds what you pay in dollars. So we get half as much and pay twice the price for it.

I have stayed at the IP and also Caesars, the Venetian and Aladdin as well as numerous hotels all over the world.

As the previous poster said, all I am looking for is a clean room with reasonable, not fancy, furnishings as I spend so little time in it. The rooms in the US are generally bigger than those in the UK and Europe and this may have a bearing on the reviews.

I also agree that value has a lot to do with it and the IP can%26#39;t be beaten for the price and location, hence the high ratings.

I totally agree with plc74, myself and my family are visiting LV next week and staying at the Circus Circus. I have read many posts on this forum about the hotel being unclean, dirty, over-run with kids and generally not fit to keep animals in. We stayed at the CC in 03 and found it to be perfectly ok. We obviously could pay more to stay somewhere better but why when you literally only sleep and shower there. I do think that we brits are that used to bad and slow service in UK that we don%26#39;t take any notice when going abroad.

Thank you for the replys so far. Is a 5 star hotel in the UK the same as it is in U.S? 5 star here means top of the line-luxuury, excellent service, great restaurants, great rooms.

While I will agree that the IP is ideal for a budget traveler and for its location, I find it odd that some UK citizens would call it comparable to a 5 -star UK hotel. Unless of course, 5-star means something else in the U.K.

Maybe its a case of people from the US have been spoilt compared to Europeans ?

Another reason why I was curious about how you folks in the UK viewed hotels is that my favorite hotel in Las Vegas is the Orleans.

It looks like the UK visitors gave that hotel 100% approval. This is what

started me thinking....';hmm, what criteria do they use in the UK that is different from us Yanks';.

I would equate a 5 star hotel in UK to Monte Carlo or equivalent.

EM--that amounts to you saying that we Americans have higher standards or better taste? I might agree with you on higher standards....but I think we can all agree that better taste would be highly debatable. LOL