Ranking Score Explained

Hi, 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 Affordable Motor Home Rentals.

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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Affordable Motor Home Rentals

Valid Reviews

299 Valid Reviews

The Affordable Motor Home Rentals experience has a total of 303 reviews. There are 299 valid reviews that are included when calculating the ranking score and 4 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 299 valid reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 205
69%
9/10 61
20%
8/10 17
6%
7/10 8
3%
6/10 3
1%
5/10 0
0%
4/10 1
0%
3/10 1
0%
2/10 2
1%
1/10 1
0%

94.35% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Affordable Motor Home Rentals valid reviews is 94.35% and is based on 299 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

22 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 299 valid reviews, the experience has 22 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 22 face-to-face reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 7
32%
9/10 6
27%
8/10 6
27%
7/10 3
14%
6/10 0
0%
5/10 0
0%
4/10 0
0%
3/10 0
0%
2/10 0
0%
1/10 0
0%

87.73% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Affordable Motor Home Rentals face-to-face reviews is 87.73% and is based on 22 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.

Weighted Average

95.57%

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
Pam 10/10 1856 days 100%
C & A Betts 10/10 1884 days 99%
Joy 10/10 2068 days 92%
Julie Ng 10/10 2068 days 92%
David Jones 10/10 2099 days 90%
Leandro Haedo 10/10 2099 days 90%
Amanda Lawson 10/10 2099 days 90%
Ken Clearwater 10/10 2099 days 90%
Jennifer Bixby 10/10 2221 days 85%
Michiel Jelijs 10/10 2221 days 85%
Jamie Carey 10/10 2221 days 85%
Robert Schwall 10/10 2221 days 85%
Nicky Bromhall 9/10 2250 days 83%
Timthang 9/10 2250 days 83%
Pastore pierrick 9/10 2281 days 82%
Chiara Rossi 9/10 2281 days 82%
Mike Bromfield 9/10 2281 days 82%
Daniel Lamere 10/10 2281 days 83%
NICHOLAS JEUNE 10/10 2281 days 83%
Matthias Van de veire 9/10 2281 days 82%
neil dougall 10/10 2281 days 83%
Tracey Armstrong 9/10 2281 days 82%
Maria Sainis 10/10 2281 days 83%
Christine Wegener 10/10 2312 days 82%
Olli Jääsaari 9/10 2312 days 81%
JACKIE EHRHARDT 10/10 2312 days 82%
Mandy Chee 6/10 2342 days 69%
lainie epstein 8/10 2342 days 79%
John van Herk 10/10 2342 days 81%
Bernard 9/10 2342 days 80%
Paul Russell 10/10 2373 days 79%
Sara Jensen 10/10 2373 days 79%
Stella Wilson 10/10 2373 days 79%
Dennis Rijbroek 9/10 2403 days 77%
Linda Gallagher 10/10 2403 days 78%
Marco Moreira 9/10 2434 days 76%
Happy camper 10/10 2434 days 77%
Jan Grävemeyer 9/10 2465 days 75%
Graça Roquette 10/10 2495 days 74%
Danny Mao 10/10 2495 days 74%
Chloe Bullock 10/10 2495 days 74%
Kate Tipton 10/10 2526 days 73%
Savilla Manuel 10/10 2526 days 73%
Olivier Gergaud 10/10 2556 days 72%
sheena tan 8/10 2556 days 71%
Christine Pooley 10/10 2556 days 72%
Alisa Failor 10/10 2556 days 72%
Aimee Spevak 10/10 2587 days 71%
Winston Bell 10/10 2587 days 71%
Irene Weinkogl 8/10 2587 days 69%
Cory 10/10 2587 days 71%
Tony O’Neill 9/10 2587 days 70%
Jim Lundy and Sherryl Livingston 10/10 2587 days 71%
paul engerand 10/10 2587 days 71%
Paul Smith 10/10 2587 days 71%
Tobias Geiger 8/10 2615 days 68%
Pierre Lemaistre 9/10 2615 days 69%
Melanie Berger 8/10 2615 days 68%
Georges BOUDIN 9/10 2615 days 69%
Tami Bass 10/10 2615 days 70%
Jonathan Taverner 10/10 2615 days 70%
Joanne Enders 10/10 2615 days 70%
Theo Stockmann 10/10 2615 days 70%
agnes janszen 10/10 2646 days 68%
Claire Cherrington 10/10 2646 days 68%
Maria van Loon 10/10 2646 days 68%
Jackie Sue 10/10 2646 days 68%
Alexandra Brown 10/10 2646 days 68%
Paolo Mauro 10/10 2646 days 68%
Matthew Parkman 10/10 2646 days 68%
Tom 10/10 2646 days 68%
Timothy McFadden 10/10 2677 days 67%
Jan Hoffmann 10/10 2677 days 67%
aneta thomsen 8/10 2677 days 66%
Xavier Bracquart 9/10 2677 days 66%
NZroadtrippers 10/10 2677 days 67%
Annabel Mason 10/10 2677 days 67%
Oz and Tina 10/10 2677 days 67%
t h 10/10 2677 days 67%
Claire 10/10 2677 days 67%
Cindy 10/10 2677 days 67%
Sharon Burgess 10/10 2707 days 66%
Boris Leroy 9/10 2707 days 65%
John Wells 10/10 2707 days 66%
javier garcia 9/10 2707 days 65%
Rosanna Nolan 10/10 2707 days 66%
Omid Shahani 10/10 2707 days 66%
Thierry GACHES 9/10 2707 days 65%
Steve Mitchell 9/10 2707 days 65%
Dallas Cluff 10/10 2707 days 66%
Mustaqeem 10/10 2707 days 66%
Diogo Loureiro 10/10 2707 days 66%
Thibaut Drevet 10/10 2707 days 66%
Jude Ong 10/10 2738 days 65%
Todd Weibel 3/10 2738 days 35%
Andrew Brealey 10/10 2738 days 65%
Edward Lowe 10/10 2738 days 65%
Georgia Nery 10/10 2768 days 63%
Kelli Rumore 10/10 2768 days 63%
Kristy 10/10 2768 days 63%
Gillian Hancock 10/10 2768 days 63%
Nichola Stretch 10/10 2799 days 62%
Loh 10/10 2799 days 62%
Vivien Soh 10/10 2799 days 62%
Melissa Hsu 10/10 2830 days 61%
Nicolas Mollet 10/10 2891 days 59%
Jess Ballard 10/10 2891 days 59%
Steve Wilkinson 10/10 2891 days 59%
Jack 10/10 2891 days 59%
Karyn Rayner 9/10 2921 days 57%
Julie Crawshaw 9/10 2921 days 57%
Debbie Wight 9/10 2921 days 57%
David Elliott 10/10 2921 days 57%
Donna Green 10/10 2921 days 57%
anaisbitt@live.com 10/10 2921 days 57%
Jarrod Pudsey 10/10 2921 days 57%
Tabea 10/10 2921 days 57%
Gabriel Santos 10/10 2921 days 57%
Dan Parker 4/10 2952 days 36%
Greg Parry 10/10 2952 days 56%
Laura Porter 10/10 2952 days 56%
Jesper Christensen 10/10 2952 days 56%
Anna Leonard 10/10 2952 days 56%
Ruben Roa Hernandez 9/10 2952 days 56%
Rory Baynes 10/10 2980 days 55%
Sally Irving 10/10 2980 days 55%
jason bassett 10/10 2980 days 55%
Chris Blackwell 9/10 2980 days 54%
Rachelle Philippen 9/10 2980 days 54%
Gordon Hughes 9/10 3011 days 53%
Henk Siegers 7/10 3011 days 50%
Johannes Partheymueller 10/10 3011 days 54%
Emily Freistatter 9/10 3011 days 53%
Pierre Mangin 9/10 3011 days 53%
Nz Traveller 10/10 3011 days 54%
Andy Grayshon 10/10 3011 days 54%
Rozanna Kyle-Robinson 10/10 3011 days 54%
Don Rostedt 9/10 3011 days 53%
martin shale 10/10 3011 days 54%
Mick Havill 10/10 3042 days 52%
Nicole Long 7/10 3042 days 49%
Lindsay Baugh 10/10 3042 days 52%
Pete Halsall 10/10 3042 days 52%
Anika Lakhani 10/10 3042 days 52%
Marjeta Kuralt 10/10 3042 days 52%
Michael Thomas Hermawan 10/10 3072 days 51%
Chris Oberson 10/10 3072 days 51%
Wilson Ting 9/10 3072 days 51%
NOR HISHAM HAJI ALI 10/10 3103 days 50%
Faustino Merlo 9/10 3103 days 50%
Anya Staal 10/10 3103 days 50%
Alan Bannister 10/10 3103 days 50%
Scott Wallis 8/10 3103 days 49%
Ed Shaddick 10/10 3133 days 49%
Rick Hall 10/10 3133 days 49%
Vanessa Paran 10/10 3133 days 49%
Che Junaid Mayet 10/10 3133 days 49%
Happy camper 10/10 3164 days 48%
meghan cuming 10/10 3164 days 48%
Viki Withers 10/10 3195 days 46%
Paul Thompson 10/10 3225 days 45%
Carl Murray 2/10 3256 days 19%
Jared Sartee 10/10 3286 days 43%
Shardul Phadnis 6/10 3286 days 37%
Judy Lawlor 10/10 3286 days 43%
Craig Mckay 9/10 3286 days 42%
Tracy Mering Stephen Law 9/10 3286 days 42%
Dennis Andrews 10/10 3286 days 43%
Nick Borland 10/10 3286 days 43%
Sjoerd Tolsma 9/10 3295 days 25%
Craig McKay 10/10 3305 days 25%
Rosalind Russell 9/10 3317 days 41%
Michal Snehota 10/10 3317 days 41%
murray keig 10/10 3317 days 41%
C Clarke 8/10 3338 days 23%
Clare Yeh 10/10 3345 days 40%
Cadey Korson 9/10 3345 days 40%
Matthew Parkman 10/10 3345 days 40%
Lynn Newhouse 10/10 3345 days 40%
Judy Little 10/10 3345 days 40%
Alice Ormandy 9/10 3360 days 23%
David Tomlinson 10/10 3376 days 39%
John Malone 8/10 3376 days 38%
Marcello Rossini 9/10 3376 days 39%
Leonie Westerhot 10/10 3393 days 23%
Jesse Arthur 10/10 3407 days 38%
Julie Manchester 10/10 3407 days 38%
Carine Av 10/10 3437 days 37%
hans soerensen 10/10 3437 days 37%
Jude Ong 10/10 3437 days 37%
liwen chan 10/10 3437 days 37%
Dalila Mohammed Isa 8/10 3437 days 36%
Wayne Fisher 9/10 3437 days 36%
Gary Ong 1/10 3468 days 14%
Tanya Davies 9/10 3468 days 35%
Heather D 10/10 3498 days 34%
Chea Hao Wong 10/10 3498 days 34%
Ashleigh McCord 9/10 3498 days 34%
Russel Brewty 9/10 3529 days 33%
Pieter Jacobs 10/10 3529 days 33%
Franck Mazas 9/10 3529 days 33%
Matt Tsagopoulos 10/10 3529 days 33%
Kuldeep Nandurkar 10/10 3560 days 32%
weeping ng 10/10 3590 days 31%
Brent Grohman 10/10 3621 days 29%
Ainsley Farrell 10/10 3621 days 29%
Anne Coleman 10/10 3621 days 29%
Casey Blyth 10/10 3651 days 28%
Sim 10/10 3651 days 28%
Lisa Lomas 10/10 3651 days 28%
Amber Jordan 9/10 3651 days 28%
Maarten Simons 8/10 3661 days 16%
Jenny Young 10/10 3671 days 16%
Bob van Hest 10/10 3682 days 27%
Maike Santelmann 8/10 3700 days 15%
Hakim Naj 9/10 3711 days 25%
costa 9/10 3711 days 25%
haslina mohamad 10/10 3711 days 26%
delphine 7/10 3711 days 24%
Damien Brocklejhurst 9/10 3711 days 25%
Chris Simpson 10/10 3732 days 15%
Martin S 10/10 3742 days 24%
Douglas Pinn 10/10 3742 days 24%
Alison Firth 10/10 3742 days 24%
Ben Chong 9/10 3773 days 23%
Konstantinos Parsalidis 10/10 3773 days 23%
Silke Richter 10/10 3773 days 23%
Mónica García 10/10 3803 days 22%
streviews 10/10 3834 days 21%
Lynne Cornish 10/10 3834 days 21%
thomas boutard 10/10 3895 days 18%
Marianne Smith 10/10 3926 days 17%
Melinda McNamara 9/10 3926 days 17%
M E Black 10/10 3956 days 16%
michellehendriks5 10/10 3956 days 16%
Brendan Collins 10/10 3987 days 15%
Adam Munro 10/10 4017 days 13%
Angela Yore 10/10 4017 days 13%
Emma Keegan 6/10 4017 days 11%
Andy Biggins 8/10 4048 days 12%
P Kolk 10/10 4048 days 12%
Dimitri Jacobs 10/10 4076 days 11%
Thomas Sartorius 10/10 4076 days 11%
Jane Curren 10/10 4076 days 11%
Morgan Thomas 10/10 4138 days 9%
Autocaravanista 10/10 4168 days 7%
M Bailey 10/10 4199 days 6%
Dustin Strong 10/10 4229 days 5%
Daniel Field 10/10 4260 days 4%
Nuria Rivas 10/10 4291 days 2%
Ash K 10/10 4321 days 1%
ashbyg 10/10 4352 days 0%
Andrei Kuek 10/10 4352 days 0%
Wilma Heij 9/10 4382 days 19%
Mark McCadden 10/10 4382 days 19%
Chris Jackson 10/10 4382 days 19%
Vince V. 10/10 4382 days 19%
Nicholas Chapman 10/10 4382 days 19%
Thomas Chacko 10/10 4413 days 19%
Linda Simpson 9/10 4413 days 19%
Tim 9/10 4441 days 19%
Eran Israel 10/10 4441 days 19%
Filip Goles 10/10 4472 days 19%
Johan Hereora Hummerhielm 2/10 4472 days 8%
JoMary Smith 7/10 4472 days 18%
Christine Jepp 10/10 4472 days 19%
Simon Fayers 10/10 4503 days 19%
Dutchie 9/10 4503 days 19%
Peter Krivanek 10/10 4503 days 19%
Anne Beveridge 9/10 4533 days 19%
John 10/10 4533 days 19%
Michael M 10/10 4594 days 19%
marianne van eykelenborg 10/10 4594 days 19%
Paul Molloy 10/10 4594 days 19%
Poko Tapurau 10/10 4625 days 19%
Brent Gowan 10/10 4686 days 19%
Mirza 8/10 4837 days 19%
Ann 10/10 4837 days 19%
Jonathan Falgren 10/10 4837 days 19%
Philip Dickie 10/10 5112 days 19%
DavidB 7/10 5143 days 18%
Alan Findlay 9/10 5158 days 11%
Whistlerdewd 10/10 5172 days 19%
Dexter 10/10 5448 days 19%
G Elliason 7/10 5523 days 10%
paris claire 10/10 5524 days 11%
Ron 9/10 5629 days 19%
Bob Kusesia 10/10 5875 days 11%
Ian Watson 10/10 5875 days 11%
M and H Lunn 8/10 5883 days 11%
David Hobson 8/10 5894 days 11%
Carina Raeder 9/10 5900 days 11%
Hans & Karin 7/10 5968 days 10%
andrew walmsley 10/10 6178 days 19%
MiepS 9/10 6196 days 11%
Ning Chan 9/10 6208 days 19%
LindaV 8/10 6242 days 11%
Oscar 7/10 6588 days 10%
Peter 9/10 6990 days 11%

Adjustments

Several adjustments to the weighted average are added to improve relevancy and credibility. These adjustments apply equally to all experiences that meet the criteria.

Sample Size Adjustment

No Adjustment

A reasonable number of reviews are necessary in order for the average to be credible and for an experience to take a prime position within the ranking tables. As such, experiences with only a few reviews have a moderated score. This does not mean that the experience or the reviews can't be trusted. The Affordable Motor Home Rentals experience has plenty of reviews and does not meet the criteria for any adjustment.

Recent Reviews Adjustment

-6.75% Adjustment

Recent reviews reflect the experience as it currently operates. This means it's important to get fresh reviews. Some experiences discovered they could get a few good reviews and then, resting on their laurels, discourage any further reviews. This adjustment stimulates experiences to be positively involved in the review generating process and discourages them from manipulating the ranking system in this manner.

What constitutes a recent review is based on the how old it is, what type of experience it is applied to and and what time of year it currently is. Due to the seasonal nature of many businesses, what is considered recent is dynamically adjusted throughout the year.

There may be an adjustment if this experience hasn't received enough reviews within the last 60 days. The Affordable Motor Home Rentals experience has 0 recent rankings. Adjustments are according to the following table:

Recent Reviews Adjustment
0 -3.00%
1 -2.63%
2 -1.50%
3 -0.38%
4 -0.00%

In addition, an experience's ranking score may be adjusted for each day there is no new ranking. After 1 day the adjustment comes into effect. The maximum number of days that can be adjusted for is 200 days. Due to the seasonal nature of many businesses, this adjustment is applied dynamically throughout the year.

The Affordable Motor Home Rentals experience has been adjusted for 200 days. Adjustments are according to the following table.

Days Adjustment
197 -3.70%
198 -3.72%
199 -3.74%
200 -3.75%
201 -3.77%
202 -3.79%
203 -3.81%

Balancing Adjustment

1.17% 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 customers 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.

Onboarding Rating

This rating is about customer service and camper availability. It measures aspects of the customer journey that are often missing from online ratings. It includes performances based on: pre-booking communication, product availability and responsiveness to customer enquiries.

All metrics come from actual customer interactions.

Details are calculated daily from statistics over several years and merged with the score derived from customer reviews - to then form the final ranking score.

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.