This week I had the highly unique experience of st...

This week I had the highly unique experience of staying at three hotels in the same downtown area: The W, The Grand Hotel, and Hotel Ivy. This means that rather than guessing which of the three might be the best based on disjointed reviews from random people who only stayed at one of them, you can simply read my review and know with absolute certainty that Hotel Ivy is the best by far. Hotel Ivy is from another galaxy in terms of service, aesthetics, atmosphere, construction, cleanliness, friendliness and professionalism of staff, you name it. Do you like baths? The bathtub is much larger here than at The Grand Hotel. The W didn't even have a tub. I could go on and on about the differences. A lot of thought went into every detail of this place, and it's a borderline atrocity that subpar competitors like The W and The Grand Hotel are permitted to have similar star rankings to Hotel Ivy which confuse visitors into thinking they are equally worth going to. I believe this nonsensical star rank equivalence is partially due to insidious manipulation of the reviews being carried out by these competitors. For instance, I found extremely strong evidence of The Grand Hotel coercing potential employees into leaving fake 5 star ratings. You can't call it a real review when there is such an obvious conflict of interest. Is this even allowed? Is it even LEGAL? It should be severely penalized by Google. As you can see from my included screenshot, The Grand Hotel apparently pressures potential employees into leaving 5 star reviews in hopes that it will help them get the job. If Hotel Ivy's competitors such as The Grand Hotel are willing to do this, then why would they stop there? I think it's fair to assume they game the system however they can and have probably left a few fake negative reviews for Hotel Ivy too. I would suggest that Hotel Ivy expose these practices by sending spies to competitors to pretend to apply for a job and then get video evidence of the recruiter's slimy attempt to pressure them to leave a 5 star review. Present the evidence to Google so they can drop these competitors' star rankings down to 3 or so where they belong. I would be happy to ask my contacts at Google to assist with this. If Hotel Ivy would like to speak with me about pursuing this then I'd be happy to help, they have my phone and email on record and know how to reach me.