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Book smart, the easy way — with RawStay.

We rank stays by an honest index built from real signals: genuine guest reviews, their live photos, rating evenness and tone. Polished promo shots no longer decide.

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Sky Lux Plaza

Diagonal · business district
RawStay
38
Be careful
Booking
9.4
★ #1 by the platform
High score — yet not a single live photo and few reviews. With us it sits at the bottom.
The core trick

Same hotels. Different order.

Flip the ranking and the list rearranges. The platform pushes gloss to the top; with us, what real guests confirmed rises instead.

Tap “Booking score” and Sky Lux Plaza jumps to first place. Switch back — the honest picks return to the top.
Transparent

What the Reality Index is built from

Four signals that are hard to game. Each is visible on the hotel card — we don’t hide the formula.

01

Guest reviews

The score and volume of reviews from real guests. Few reviews — too early to judge, and we flag that honestly.

02

Live photos

Shots from guests, not from a press kit. Real confirmations — a higher index.

03

Rating evenness

How stable the category scores are. A dip in one is a reason to look closer.

04

Review tone

The emotional colour of what people write. A warm tone is a good sign.

Where to go

Destinations with an honest ranking

The index is always in the city’s context — we compare hotels against each other where you’re searching.

How it works

Three steps to an honest booking

Pick a destination

Enter a city and dates. We gather the hotels and compute a Reality Index for each.

See the honest order

The list is sorted by truth. Open a card — a transparent breakdown and live guest photos.

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