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I definitely smell a rat...

The latest review from cinnamonsfriend looks legit, but I agree, the glowing reviews from the rest of them look phonier than a 3 dollar bill.

As one of the reviewers of Parc Suites, i have to say that i can't believe what you just said and the rude message one of you just sent me, telling me i was a fake.

I support everything i said in my review and will recommend it time and time again.

I didn't know about the existence of this website until friends of mine who knew about our experience there told us we should put up a review of hw great it was, so that's what we did.

I can't tell you about the other reviewers but i guarantee you, it's a really good place.

And just so you know, if you ever doubt someone, there are nicer ways to go about it than insulting them.

Any infos about the place gladly given.

No one has insulted you personally, but several of us believe your *review* is something less than genuine.

I'd be curious who your "friends" are who asked you to post a review to a website you never had previously visited or known about....that would be a most interesting piece of information.

By chance would it be someone employed or in management at the hotel itself?

All I can say is - Gimme a break!

There's nothing odd about a place getting really good reviews. As Travellingdoc-7 stated, what's odd is when the place has ONLY 10 or 11 gushing reviews, ALL written by first time posters and ALL within a timespan of a month. As mentioned, the only review that seems genuine is the most recent.

What's sad is that all the great hotels that have worked so hard to build their reputations have been topped in their ratings through cheating. Not cool.

You all obviously have to much time in your lives, i on the contrary have two lively toddlers and a brand new life in a brand new country to get used to and i have to saythat i find your comment upsetting and uncalled for.

At the end of the day, if you don't believe my review go check it out for yourselves, it may put some excitment back into your lives.

Uh, let's just reorient this discussion a little....

Momof2wonders, thanks so much for writing a review here on TA -- it's wonderful when people take the time to tell others candidly what they can expect, rather than what the hotel brochures and website says about itself. It's a nice gesture to thank the hotel for making your stay so nice, too.

Everyone else: good detective work. Since TripAdvisor staff do indeed read the forums--ahem, ah, fora--and remove posts that don't follow their guidelines, I bet they do something similar when hotels do leave fake reviews.

While the 11 suspicious glowing reviews about this hotel may have passed TA's technical standards/review, that DOES NOT mean they are legitimate. It simply means that TA can not prove they AREN'T legitimate.

Part of the function of TA, and TA knows this, is that regular people like us will publicize the suspicious postings and reviews, and shine a light on them for all to see.

I note with a great deal of interest that our vociferous defender of her review absolutely failed to discuss who asked her to post her positive review. She admitted openly that she'd never heard of this website, never visited it before, and that "friends" had asked her to post the positive review.

Since she also admitted she is a new resident of Canada, exactly how many "friends" do you think she had who would have asked her to post here? My suspicion is that she spent 3 weeks living in this hotel upon arrival in Canada, that her "friends" are hotel management.

Perhaps her review is fully accurate. But I'm also offended by self-serving tactics such as those this hotel has apparently employed. The flaw in TA's rating system is that a little-known hotel can manipulate reviews in order to gain an unwarranted high ranking in TA's system. To other hotels that play fair, and let their customers do the talking without prompting, this is inappropriate, and the Parc Suites needs to be taken to task for what they have done. Thus, the openly skeptical posts from me and others here...

The review from "cinnamon'sfriend" from Brooklyn rings much truer. "Cinnamon" also posted questions about her trip in the Vermont forum, and she obviously encountered good, indifferent and bad things from her vacation. Those are the kind of reviews that I respect.

I cannot understand WHY TA have not removed the suspicious reviews of Parc Suites, and left only cinnamon'sfriend in, giving it one review with a 3 out of 5 rating. This would relegate it to where it belongs in the hotel listings, and then TA would have to keep an eye out for future suspicious reviews, as even today a new spurious revew has appeared - again by a first-timer - bringing the number to 12.

There is ample evidence that something fishy has gone on. Parc Suites Hotel has been around since 2006 according to its own website, yet it didn't have a single review on TA until the shower of glowing reviews, ALL by new members, posted in a month. It only has 8 rooms, yet it got more reviews in the past month than virtually any other hotel in Montreal. Curiouser and curiouser. Its balcony was "a spacious fire escape" and its parking in "an alley (not too aesthetically pleasing or easy to get to)" - nothing wrong with that, but hardly the stuff of your dream boutique hotel.

I was influence by the pre-cinnamon glowing reviews and looked into booking a suite there. I was prevented only by the fact that the Parc Suites Hotel website did not respond when I tried to book online and it did not list its rates on the website. Then along came cinamon'sfriend's review and I too smelled a rat. Then I found an image of the exterior of the hotel on the Montreal tourism site and realized that it was totally not for us.

However much this is publicized now in the Montreal forum, it will get forgotten with time and unnoticed on other forums. But people searching for hotels will continue to be influenced by the spurious glowing reviews. Maybe it would just be a slight disappointment to some guests, maybe it would ruin a holiday or even a honeymoon - whichever it's not fair, and if TA allows it to go on, we could see a spate of *supplied* hotel reviews which would make a sham of this invaluable website.