Why you shouldn’t always trust online reviews

We always rent villas or apartments when we go away on our annual holidays, there is nothing wrong with hotels, they just don’t work for us as a family. The extra space an apartment affords us in a city is welcome and for us works out better and makes for a more relaxing break.

Our recent trip to New York is a classic case, we looked at hotels (this is how the New York authorities would like you to visit) but again went with an apartment – this time in Harlem which added greatly to our experience (only in a good way). It was in a street that was very reminiscent of that used in the US sitcom ‘Different Strokes’ (you need to be a certain age to remember this!).

We booked the ‘Brownstone’ through a website that we use regularly for holiday bookings, we know and trust it –…