Belek comes out on top
Contributors are not employed, compensated or governed by TD, opinions and statements are from the contributor directly
Hotels in the popular Turkish holiday destination Belek have the best online reputation, hotels in El Arenal the worst.
The online hotel price comparison site www.trivago.co.uk has compared the hotel ratings of the most popular European beach destinations. Hotels in Belek on the Turkish Riviera have received the highest overall ratings from travellers. The British seaside town Blackpool also makes it into the top 50 most popular holiday destinations. Hotels in the Spanish party cities, El Arenal, Lloret de Mar and San Antonio on Ibiza fared badly in the overall ranking. The results were brought together in a Reputation Ranking.
London, 4th December 2009. Following the European City Reputation Ranking, the online price comparison site trivago has analysed the most popular beach destinations for the first time. In the ranking the 50 most popular European beach destinations in 2009 were investigated. The analysis took into consideration over 380,000 hotel reviews for more than 4,000 hotels. Spain is the most popular European holiday destination with 15 cities in the Ranking, Italy has eleven cities, and France and Turkey both have five beach destinations. In the United Kingdom, Blackpool is the only town to make the top 50 with an average rating of 75.76 and is currently ranked 20, ahead of many popular Southern European hotspots.
Belek on the Turkish Riviera has the best reputation
With an average of 80.31 out of 100 points in the trivago hotel evaluation scale, the popular holiday resort Belek on the Turkish Riviera has the best online reputation. Belek is closely followed by health resort Binz in Germany with 80.11 points and the small Italian town Sorrento with 79.86 points. Hotels in the Portuguese town of Funchal on the Atlantic Island Madiera are also favoured by travellers; hotels in the port town have an average of 79.31 points and are fourth in the overall European Reputation Ranking. The Croatian city of Dubrovnik is in fifth place with an average overall rating of 78.77 points.
Mallorca’s party town El Arenal has the worst online reputation
Especially interesting are the results that show the popular Spanish party town El Arenal with the worst overall ratings. Benidorm on the Costa Blanca with 71.53 points is rank 46, San Antonio on Ibiza (70.52 points) rank 48, Lloret de Mar (69.52 points) on the Costa Brava the second to last and El Arenal (65.10 points) on Mallorca is in last place. On the other hand, Palma de Mallorca had very satisfied hotel guests and is in rank ten with 77.21 points. The hotels in Nice on the French C
Comments are closed.