Ranking Score Explained

Kia ora, thanks for your interest in how we calculate an experience's ranking score. It's at the core of Rankers so I'm pleased you're curious.

The ranking score percentage is used to compare and sort experiences in ranking tables. It is not necessarily a direct measurement of the quality of a particular experience as rated by its customers. I've found it a useful tool to allow me to find the best experiences with confidence. But I've also found it important to read the customer reviews before making any final judgements!

We calculate an experience's ranking score using a multi-factor data model instead of a raw data average (mean). This model takes into account several important questions. For instance - is there a trusted body of reviews? What is the age of a review and is the review from a credible source?

Below you'll find details around some of the important factors that went into calculating the ranking score for Spa Park.

If you have any questions or comments about our ranking score calculation please get in touch at info@rankers.co.nz. We don't believe this is perfect or complete so we're always interested in ways we might make improvements.

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Spa Park

Valid Reviews

90 Valid Reviews

The Spa Park experience has a total of 92 reviews. There are 90 valid reviews that are included when calculating the ranking score and 2 invalid reviews that are excluded from the calculation. Reviews can be excluded only when a reviewer is not verified or after an investigation by our team determines the reviewer is not genuine.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 90 valid reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 36
40%
9/10 26
29%
8/10 16
18%
7/10 10
11%
6/10 0
0%
5/10 1
1%
4/10 1
1%
3/10 0
0%
2/10 0
0%
1/10 0
0%

89.00% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Spa Park valid reviews is 89.00% and is based on 90 valid reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here as a comparison to the weighted average.

Face-to-Face Reviews

81 Face-to-Face Reviews

The Rankers team meets with travellers while they’re in New Zealand and conducts face-to-face surveys. These reviews, in our opinion, are the most trusted in the industry and represent a critical control sample. To our knowledge, we are the only travel review website in the world that has gone to this extent.

More about face-to-face reviews

Within the 90 valid reviews, the experience has 81 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 81 face-to-face reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 34
42%
9/10 23
28%
8/10 15
19%
7/10 8
10%
6/10 0
0%
5/10 0
0%
4/10 1
1%
3/10 0
0%
2/10 0
0%
1/10 0
0%

89.75% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Spa Park face-to-face reviews is 89.75% and is based on 81 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.

Weighted Average

76.90%

Rankers calculates a weighted mean as a base average on which we can improve. Individual review's ratings are given a weight based on several factors. The weight of a review determines the overall impact it'll have on the final weighted average.

Recent reviews have more weight as they are more relevant and reflect the experience as it currently operates. Over time reviews become less relevant and loose their impact on the ranking score.

Low rating reviews carry slightly less weight. This dampens the effect of very low ratings for every experience across the board. This is especially important when the experience has few reviews overall and a single negative rating can grossly mischaracterise an experience. Consistent poor reviews will still result in the experience receiving a comparitively low ranking score.

Credible sources provide reviews that can be trusted. If we have verified a reviewer is genuine via a face-to-face meeting then the review carries additional weight.

Reviewer Rating Age Relative Weight
Kate Forman 5/10 258 days 100%
Léo 10/10 1020 days 57%
C J B 10/10 2753 days 4%
Felix Koehler 10/10 3259 days 3%
Lucie Revay 7/10 3281 days 3%
Simon Schatz 10/10 3551 days 2%
Nadja Guiliani 7/10 3556 days 2%
Jamie Serieux 8/10 3559 days 2%
Philipp 7/10 3565 days 2%
George Bellwood 9/10 3567 days 2%
Sarah Dorsett 8/10 3567 days 2%
Lewis Cole 8/10 3569 days 2%
Robert Klub 10/10 3588 days 2%
Johannes Koch 10/10 3590 days 2%
Clara Loizeil 7/10 3596 days 2%
Patrick Veber 8/10 3596 days 2%
Fabian 4/10 3600 days 1%
Maartje 9/10 3601 days 2%
Anders Hauke 9/10 3602 days 2%
Alex Reeve 10/10 3609 days 2%
Eric Hertort 10/10 3613 days 2%
Christian Meyer 10/10 3613 days 2%
Melissa Fuster 8/10 3617 days 2%
Mikkel Palleson 10/10 3617 days 2%
Marek Dvonsky 8/10 3618 days 2%
Sam 8/10 3624 days 2%
Gregor 10/10 3629 days 2%
Shany Maydan 10/10 3655 days 2%
Sebastian and Susanna 9/10 3662 days 2%
Jade Cownley 9/10 3955 days 1%
Pierre Planchez 9/10 3974 days 1%
Erik Hafuer 9/10 4010 days 1%
Polly Rider 9/10 4036 days 1%
Lea Darotchetche 8/10 4196 days 0%
Julia Schabenberger 9/10 4275 days 0%
Lola 10/10 4275 days 0%
Alisa 9/10 4275 days 0%
Laura 10/10 4275 days 0%
Cecilia Anderson 9/10 4278 days 0%
Mattias 8/10 4278 days 0%
Guillaume Yedoux 8/10 4278 days 0%
Zuzana Holubova 8/10 4278 days 0%
Jenny Finch 9/10 4303 days 0%
Agathe Dupuis 10/10 4304 days 0%
Florent Bouillon 8/10 4304 days 0%
Stephen Revah 9/10 4304 days 0%
Hadler 7/10 4308 days 0%
Callum 9/10 4319 days 0%
Max Meternich 10/10 4321 days 0%
Philip Donachie 9/10 4323 days 0%
Andreas Jung 10/10 4331 days 0%
Jesseca Klausch 10/10 4333 days 0%
Vincent Schaeflier 9/10 4333 days 0%
Victor Herranz 10/10 4338 days 0%
Nimh Oudhof 10/10 4339 days 0%
Luca Willensrock 9/10 4351 days 0%
Arnaud Memay 7/10 4359 days 0%
Julia Ahrend 10/10 4369 days 0%
Molly Ladd 8/10 4668 days 1%
Missy and Chaz 10/10 4682 days 1%
Pink 8/10 4705 days 1%
Johannes Mullner 10/10 5027 days 1%
Jessica Marling 10/10 5027 days 1%
Camille and Lucie 9/10 5028 days 1%
Jaroslav Gajdos 10/10 5040 days 1%
Carl & Desiree Potter 9/10 5049 days 1%
Yves & Sylvia 7/10 5051 days 1%
Andy Bridgman 8/10 5051 days 1%
Maximilian Heller 9/10 5058 days 1%
Luis Valenzuela 7/10 5059 days 1%
FamilyGuy 9/10 5097 days 1%
Clement_Weather 7/10 5097 days 1%
N smith 9/10 5097 days 1%
Annie 10/10 5128 days 1%
Petra 10/10 5365 days 1%
Gema 9/10 5386 days 1%
Aimee Pollett 7/10 5393 days 1%
Vanessa Hanzen 10/10 5395 days 1%
Rissa W 9/10 5403 days 1%
Natthien Le Gall 8/10 5404 days 1%
Rebecca Stones 10/10 5405 days 1%
Matthijs Muijsers 9/10 5424 days 1%
hooperuk 10/10 5737 days 1%
John N 10/10 5762 days 1%
Blair Malcolm 10/10 5777 days 1%
Hailey & Fin 10/10 5808 days 1%
varenaee 9/10 5843 days 1%
Pieter Neeleman 10/10 5870 days 1%
WiebkeS 10/10 6118 days 1%
Lars Haf 10/10 6120 days 1%

Adjustments

No Adjustment

Several adjustments to the weighted average may be added to improve relevancy and credibility. Spa Park does not meet the criteria for any of these adjustments to apply.

Balancing Adjustment

3.95% Adjustment

Every experience's review score is adjusted to balance out the disproportional number of negative reviews that are contributed.

You won't be surprised to learn that disgruntled folk are more likely to leave a review than happy ones. They are motivated to share their experience and warn others. We consider this a good thing and it's why reading the reviews is important. However we've learned it can misrepresent the experience in a more overall sense.

We apply a balancing adjustment to counteract this effect and ensure the ranking score is a more fair representation of the experience. This adjustment is applied equally to all experiences.

Final Ranking Score

81%

The final ranking score once any adjustments, ratings, and rounding has been applied. This value is recalculated each day and a short rolling average is applied. Therefore it may not be precisely accurate based on the other values presented.