Hotels Section: Comments and Suggestions.
In the main hotel page in the list of cities/states, Pondichery/Puducherry appears as Prucherry.
Nadreg, already a week ago or so I added a review to the hotel listing for Mumbai's Salvation Army guesthouse, at http://www.indiamike.com/india-hotel...-bombay-h3449/. It then tells you this will be held for moderation, fair enuff. However it's been a little long now, so I thought I'd bring it to your attention.
It was somewhat lengthy (surprise) as well as negative, part of the reason for its lengthiness being I'd rather substantiate any negativity. Apart from that, I did include all the practical data I have.
So I was wondering if it's still hovering in limbo, or has been rejected. If the latter, it could be handy if a (automated) message to that effect bounces back to the poster, so they don't need to wonder.
It was somewhat lengthy (surprise) as well as negative, part of the reason for its lengthiness being I'd rather substantiate any negativity. Apart from that, I did include all the practical data I have.
So I was wondering if it's still hovering in limbo, or has been rejected. If the latter, it could be handy if a (automated) message to that effect bounces back to the poster, so they don't need to wonder.
... And then on another note of irritation, I just tried to add a new hotel listing (for Daman, but I think the process just timed out, you'll be unlikely to find it hanging in limbo somewhere).
I've been noticing with the photo galleries of late, if you don't speedily upload your pics, then editing in your details later if necessary, the system tends to time out, so all your input will be lost if it takes you too long to finally hit "upload." You just get taken to a blank page & nothing happens.
It now seems to work the same with these hotel listings, which will take you a while to fill in and think about by nature. Maybe it's because I had included a pic (I'll try again later minus the pic, hoping it can be edited in later), but it's obviously (quite bloody) annoying either way. I mean there goes another half hour's or so worth of nothing.
I've been noticing with the photo galleries of late, if you don't speedily upload your pics, then editing in your details later if necessary, the system tends to time out, so all your input will be lost if it takes you too long to finally hit "upload." You just get taken to a blank page & nothing happens.
It now seems to work the same with these hotel listings, which will take you a while to fill in and think about by nature. Maybe it's because I had included a pic (I'll try again later minus the pic, hoping it can be edited in later), but it's obviously (quite bloody) annoying either way. I mean there goes another half hour's or so worth of nothing.
Last edited by machadinha; Dec 26th, 2009 at 19:50..
... nb On the time-out issue I just mentioned above, I now suspect if you fill in all the (textual) fields, then add your pic only at the last moment & immediately upload, this may avoid it. (In the photo galleries, the field where you add the actual file is one of the first though; it might be more intuitive if this came last then.)
Thing is in the photo galleries at least, you then get taken to an intermediate page first, with some more fields to fill in. It seems best to proceed to immediately upload here, then edit any fields later.
With the hotel listings as such, being new to this I don't even know how much editing it would allow for later.
Either way, it'd obviously be nice if there were no time-out to begin with.
Thing is in the photo galleries at least, you then get taken to an intermediate page first, with some more fields to fill in. It seems best to proceed to immediately upload here, then edit any fields later.
With the hotel listings as such, being new to this I don't even know how much editing it would allow for later.
Either way, it'd obviously be nice if there were no time-out to begin with.
... Phew, well, heheh, LOL, grrr, so I finally and after a lot more ado managed to add my very first hotel listing (Hotel Diamond in Daman, at http://www.indiamike.com/india-hotel...diamond-h4723/ ). Man, that is one seriously flawed form/piece of software, if you don't mind me saying so.
It kept timing out on me again & leading me to a blank page (with a "0" at top left), however luckily this time I could at least backtrack to the form as I had filled it in, and so try and make amends. First thing I did was remove the pic, which I had now added only at the last moment; to no avail. (It turns out what does in fact work is the function that allows you to add pics to your review later, so that at least is something).
It then turns out some of the fields don't allow for text in them or something (Q: "Distance from the train station," A: "The train station for Daman is in the town of Vapi, about a half-hour's taxi ride away," such things far from always and certainly not in India allow themselves to be expressed in firm numbers, right; but OK, changed to 10 km. The field disappeared into thin air anyway, see below.) If it is so, it would be handy to be alerted to this of course, or to have it specified what format your input should be in (kilometers? miles? grams of sugar?)
So toggling some of those around (and when the upload fails, it never tells you what went wrong of course, you just have to figure it out for yourself, and always hoping the filled-in form will still be there when you do backpedal. This might be less of an issue if there were one main text you could copy before attempting any upload -- as in perhaps the photo galleries, say, or when submitting a forum post --, but with this form's numerous fields, many of which call for more than just a two-word entry, you don't readily have that option), the upload finally succeeds.
Now, the form may indeed give you the impression you're filling in a lot of separate and distinct fields (a little cumbersome and superfluous in fact, I thought); but it turns out they all get thrown together anyway. So what you have now is the fields "Hotel Description" and "Hotel Amenities" lumped together with no break, and looking like crap this way (one would presumably have written it differently had one known it would come out as one continuous piece of text, right); and then ditto for the fields "Hotel Room Description" and "Hotel Room Amenities," lumped together again.
(Ah, and of course any paragraph breaks you may have included likewise just get tossed out the window, making the text no more readable again; the overall effect is of a text written by a five-year-old really, and of a general "WTF" reader's experience. Is this supposed to make me feel like staying in a place?)
Moreover, from the other fields that I didn't leave blank because I don't know, as noted the fields "Distance from the nearest bus stop" and "Distance from the nearest train station" which I did fill in have just *poof* disappeared into thin air. The field "Lowest Room Price" for that matter, and where it does in fact specify "Number only, please": Nowhere to be found back.
(Oddly, the field "Hotel Room Price" gets prefixed to the preceding "Hotel Room Description," so that it now reads "350 Cosy, clean (daily cleaning if desired), just fine...." etc. Right, clear as mud indeed.)
Finally, I'd been wondering if the "Star Rating" referred to any official stars a hotel may have, or one's personal opinion of a place. Since I saw no "no-star" option (and I doubt this place has one, or any others I stayed in for that matter), I figured the latter, and so gave it a six out of seven. So it's now listed as a "deluxe" hotel, LOL, while it is in fact really a budget hotel, albeit a fine one or to my standards anyway. (Besides, how many stars a place may have is really something that does not typically get engrained in my memory. And do there in fact exist seven-star places? I thought five was the limit.)
(It would, in any case, seem to make sense if the original poster could allot points to the hotel they're listing, perhaps in several categories, just like one can when adding a review to an existing listing. It seems a little odd one can't when adding one's own new listing, i.e., being the first one to review it.)
Well, here's from a disgruntled user, I guess it could do with some tweaking. I guess some of this could be resolved by allowing the poster of the listing to edit it after posting, perhaps for a limited period, just as with forum posts; and then to have some specifications of what to fill in where (in what formats, I mean), and what odd layout things are about to happen to it, would certainly help. And then beyond that it might just need a thorough overhaul.
Ah, and that it really is much better to add any pics after posting the review; and moreover that those pics need to be no larger than 100 Kb, it says that nowhere, I just happened to think of it because it's the limit for forum attachments. If you try and upload a bigger file, just simply nothing happens once again, no notification or anything.
It kept timing out on me again & leading me to a blank page (with a "0" at top left), however luckily this time I could at least backtrack to the form as I had filled it in, and so try and make amends. First thing I did was remove the pic, which I had now added only at the last moment; to no avail. (It turns out what does in fact work is the function that allows you to add pics to your review later, so that at least is something).
It then turns out some of the fields don't allow for text in them or something (Q: "Distance from the train station," A: "The train station for Daman is in the town of Vapi, about a half-hour's taxi ride away," such things far from always and certainly not in India allow themselves to be expressed in firm numbers, right; but OK, changed to 10 km. The field disappeared into thin air anyway, see below.) If it is so, it would be handy to be alerted to this of course, or to have it specified what format your input should be in (kilometers? miles? grams of sugar?)
So toggling some of those around (and when the upload fails, it never tells you what went wrong of course, you just have to figure it out for yourself, and always hoping the filled-in form will still be there when you do backpedal. This might be less of an issue if there were one main text you could copy before attempting any upload -- as in perhaps the photo galleries, say, or when submitting a forum post --, but with this form's numerous fields, many of which call for more than just a two-word entry, you don't readily have that option), the upload finally succeeds.
Now, the form may indeed give you the impression you're filling in a lot of separate and distinct fields (a little cumbersome and superfluous in fact, I thought); but it turns out they all get thrown together anyway. So what you have now is the fields "Hotel Description" and "Hotel Amenities" lumped together with no break, and looking like crap this way (one would presumably have written it differently had one known it would come out as one continuous piece of text, right); and then ditto for the fields "Hotel Room Description" and "Hotel Room Amenities," lumped together again.
(Ah, and of course any paragraph breaks you may have included likewise just get tossed out the window, making the text no more readable again; the overall effect is of a text written by a five-year-old really, and of a general "WTF" reader's experience. Is this supposed to make me feel like staying in a place?)
Moreover, from the other fields that I didn't leave blank because I don't know, as noted the fields "Distance from the nearest bus stop" and "Distance from the nearest train station" which I did fill in have just *poof* disappeared into thin air. The field "Lowest Room Price" for that matter, and where it does in fact specify "Number only, please": Nowhere to be found back.
(Oddly, the field "Hotel Room Price" gets prefixed to the preceding "Hotel Room Description," so that it now reads "350 Cosy, clean (daily cleaning if desired), just fine...." etc. Right, clear as mud indeed.)
Finally, I'd been wondering if the "Star Rating" referred to any official stars a hotel may have, or one's personal opinion of a place. Since I saw no "no-star" option (and I doubt this place has one, or any others I stayed in for that matter), I figured the latter, and so gave it a six out of seven. So it's now listed as a "deluxe" hotel, LOL, while it is in fact really a budget hotel, albeit a fine one or to my standards anyway. (Besides, how many stars a place may have is really something that does not typically get engrained in my memory. And do there in fact exist seven-star places? I thought five was the limit.)
(It would, in any case, seem to make sense if the original poster could allot points to the hotel they're listing, perhaps in several categories, just like one can when adding a review to an existing listing. It seems a little odd one can't when adding one's own new listing, i.e., being the first one to review it.)
Well, here's from a disgruntled user, I guess it could do with some tweaking. I guess some of this could be resolved by allowing the poster of the listing to edit it after posting, perhaps for a limited period, just as with forum posts; and then to have some specifications of what to fill in where (in what formats, I mean), and what odd layout things are about to happen to it, would certainly help. And then beyond that it might just need a thorough overhaul.
Ah, and that it really is much better to add any pics after posting the review; and moreover that those pics need to be no larger than 100 Kb, it says that nowhere, I just happened to think of it because it's the limit for forum attachments. If you try and upload a bigger file, just simply nothing happens once again, no notification or anything.
Last edited by machadinha; Dec 27th, 2009 at 18:44..
So ps Nadreg, if you could do me two favors, kindly bring back that rating for the Hotel Diamond at http://www.indiamike.com/india-hotel...diamond-h4723/ to 1 star, as this "deluxe" position of theirs just makes no sense.
With my second listing now and for Mumbai's Hotel Volga at http://www.indiamike.com/india-hotel...l-volga-h4724/ , I figured I'd try one more time what happens if you enter your own room's price (namely and in this case, Rs. 800), vs. the lowest room price the form first asks you for (Rs. 400 here, and again this entry doesn't seem to show up anywhere anyway). It does indeed just get prefixed to your general description though. So that now reads:
TIA, and I think I'll otherwise manage in future as I've now learned to just ignore most of those fields (saves a lot of work anyway), as well as not bother with layout and stuff which won't stick anyway. Which of course doesn't mean it won't confuse the next hapless user who gives it a go just as much.
With my second listing now and for Mumbai's Hotel Volga at http://www.indiamike.com/india-hotel...l-volga-h4724/ , I figured I'd try one more time what happens if you enter your own room's price (namely and in this case, Rs. 800), vs. the lowest room price the form first asks you for (Rs. 400 here, and again this entry doesn't seem to show up anywhere anyway). It does indeed just get prefixed to your general description though. So that now reads:
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Which again obviously makes no sense and is just confusing. If you can, kindly remove the first "Rs. 800" there, which has no place here. So it should read: "Cubicles ... go for (in April 2009) Rs. 400."TIA, and I think I'll otherwise manage in future as I've now learned to just ignore most of those fields (saves a lot of work anyway), as well as not bother with layout and stuff which won't stick anyway. Which of course doesn't mean it won't confuse the next hapless user who gives it a go just as much.
Hi,
I've just added reviews for the Hotel Mahabs and Blue Elephant Guesthouse in Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu. I thought the star rating I filled in was my personal rating but it appears it is an official star rating as I scored both hotels fairly high and they have now appeared as 'deluxe' category. As this is my mistake and not a fair reflection of the hotel's quality could someone remove this?
Thanks
I've just added reviews for the Hotel Mahabs and Blue Elephant Guesthouse in Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu. I thought the star rating I filled in was my personal rating but it appears it is an official star rating as I scored both hotels fairly high and they have now appeared as 'deluxe' category. As this is my mistake and not a fair reflection of the hotel's quality could someone remove this?
Thanks
Everest hotels
Hi,
I accidentally posted 2 listings for hotel everest in pushkar hotels. Could you please remove the one I havn't added my review to? Also as the hotel has two websites i put them both down but now they are both linked together, just wondering if you could split the two websites apart. Thanks heaps,
Kate
I accidentally posted 2 listings for hotel everest in pushkar hotels. Could you please remove the one I havn't added my review to? Also as the hotel has two websites i put them both down but now they are both linked together, just wondering if you could split the two websites apart. Thanks heaps,
Kate
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My apologies, guys. I missed this thread so didn't see the last few comments you posted. I will take a look at the hotels section and see if I can fix some of these things.
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Somehow, I do not get along with the hotel section:
- After some trials, I managed to create a second entry for the Bellevue Hotel Darjeeling containing a number of corrections compared to the first entry by palerider for the same hotel. I expected these would be merged, but that did not happen.
- I uploaded a picture of the hotel with the listing, however, the listing says "no image available". Instead, the pic appears at the right side as a "Bellevue Hotel Darjeeling Gallery".
- Since, I tried at least four to five times to add my review for the same hotel. I did that at the initial listing as well as at my corrective listing. My most recent trial was today. When I finish, I get a positive feed-back ("Thank you for reviewing Bellevue Hotel Darjeeling."), but my review does not show up, even if I'm patiently waiting for several weeks.
Can somebody, please, tell me what I'm missing?
Can the admins, please, get that fixed?
Thanks for caring! Steff
Somehow, I do not get along with the hotel section:
- After some trials, I managed to create a second entry for the Bellevue Hotel Darjeeling containing a number of corrections compared to the first entry by palerider for the same hotel. I expected these would be merged, but that did not happen.
- I uploaded a picture of the hotel with the listing, however, the listing says "no image available". Instead, the pic appears at the right side as a "Bellevue Hotel Darjeeling Gallery".
- Since, I tried at least four to five times to add my review for the same hotel. I did that at the initial listing as well as at my corrective listing. My most recent trial was today. When I finish, I get a positive feed-back ("Thank you for reviewing Bellevue Hotel Darjeeling."), but my review does not show up, even if I'm patiently waiting for several weeks.
Can somebody, please, tell me what I'm missing?
Can the admins, please, get that fixed?
Thanks for caring! Steff
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Originally Posted by nadreg 
Hmm... that is troubling that you're losing your reviews. I'll take a look and see what might be causing it. What operating system and browser are you using?
Hmm... that is troubling that you're losing your reviews. I'll take a look and see what might be causing it. What operating system and browser are you using? Thanks for caring. Steff
Tried it again today, this time, from a PC at work (XP Home, Firefox 3.6). No go, my review does not show up! Seems to be a problem with my profile rather than machine or configuration.
@nadreg: I were really grateful for your advice.
@nadreg: I were really grateful for your advice.
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Carina - you will need more posts on the forum before you can post a review. Members who join just to post reviews will not have their reviews accepted. I think you need at least 5 posts, before your review will show up.
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