Olielo gives you the unique opportunity to share your stay experience in luxury hotels with other travellers. To ensure we maintain a high level of quality, there are several guidelines we would like you to follow.
Pictures
You need to include at least a minimum of 5 quality pictures in your review. On Olielo, a quality picture is a picture that :
- doesn’t include anybody (or at least doesn’t allow to recognize them)
- has an aspect ratio of 1.5 (for instance : 900 x 600 pixels, or 750 x 500 pixels)
- isn’t too heavy in size (between 50 and 200 Ko is a good target)
- isn’t overexposed or underexposed
- isn’t blurry
Please resize your pictures before uploading them to Olielo. It only takes few seconds to achieve and will lower the upload time for you and then the browsing time for visitors. Image resizing can be easily achieved with Paint.NET, a free S/W available on PC :
- Open the image
- Press CTRL + R (or Menu Picture > Resize)
- Set the dimensions : 900 by 600 or 750 by 500, make sure that maintain aspect ratio is selected and press OK. If you aren’t able to resize with these sizes, then use the rectangle select first to crop your picture to the right aspect ratio of 1.5.
- Save with CTRL + S (or Menu File > Save)
When you upload your pictures, please give them a relevant filename so that it is easy to understand what they refer to (example : “hotel-de-paris-monaco-restaurant.jpg”). Don’t put special characters like “é”, “&” or “à” into the filename.
You can also create nice galleries with few pictures :
- Press Add Media above the text editor
- Then Create Gallery on the left menu
- Upload your pictures or select already uploaded ones from the media library
- For the gallery settings, set link to “media file” and columns to “2”
- Click on the create/update gallery button
Then you can edit your gallery and set caption text for pictures to describe them briefly. This text will appear below the picture in the review. You can also set the size of the pictures to be used by the gallery by adding size=”medium” tag to the gallery shortcode details in the text editor (text tab, not visual).
Set a featured image, this is the image that will be visible on archive pages. Select your prefered one, it is the one that needs to attract visitors to read your review.
Don’t reuse pictures that could have already been published on other websites. The content posted on Olielo needs to be unique.
Texts
Your review needs to be as exhaustive as possible. You can provide feedback on all the things you have experienced during your stay.
The minimum number of words for a review is 400 words (see word count below the text editor).
Your text needs to be written in good and understandable language. Use spell check to avoid errors.
Don’t reuse texts that could have already been published on other websites. The content posted on Olielo needs to be unique.
When you make comments about something that you liked or disliked, make sure that you detail the reasons why you liked or disliked it.
To make it easier, we suggest you to organize your review with the following sections :
- Arrival at the hotel : general feeling when arrived at the hotel, ease of checkin.
- Room : describe the room, including bathroom, bedding quality, room size, etc…
- Food and drinks : describe here the restaurant, room service, breakfast and bar.
- Activities : describe the services available at the hotel and also nearby activities.
- Conclusion : summarize your review with few relevant aspects.
Review details
Please make sure that you populate all the fields with the true values. The stay dates and room number will be usefull to perform background checks on reviews that are subject to discussions.
Ratings
Try to be fair with your ratings. Don’t put bad ratings just in the goal to discount an hotel or good ratings in the goal to promote it artificially. Base your judgement on true facts, not just emotions.
Moderation
Please note that reviews not following these guidelines might not be published. All the reviews are moderated by Olielo staff before they are published on the website.