Guest review process and conditions

Reviews are guests’ personal opinions of their experiences after staying at a property. To make the best use of reviews, you should know how the review process works and who can leave a review.

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Understanding how the guest review process works

Reviews are a way for you to get valuable feedback on your property and improve the guest experience. They showcase your property’s best features and help other potential guests make booking decisions.

We send review invitation emails to guests about 48 hours after check-out. They have three months to complete their review.

Eligibility to leave a guest review

Only guests who booked stays through our platform—including no-shows and people who booked a property for family or friends—and/or stayed at your property can leave a review.

Sometimes, someone might make a reservation on behalf of a friend, family member, or colleague. In that case, the person who made the booking will receive the guest review questionnaire and can forward it to the person who stayed at the property to complete the review.

Read our policy on non-stayed reservation reviews in the content guidelines here.

Anonymous reviews on Booking.com

We allow anonymous reviews to help you get as many reviews as possible. Our experiments show that when the anonymous review option is available, guests are more likely to leave one. We know that anonymity makes it easier for guests to share feedback and highlight issues they wouldn’t mention otherwise. This also gives you greater insight into how you could make improvements. As with all other reviews, anonymous reviews are public for 36 months.

Anonymous reviews aren’t grounds for removal. If you’re looking for more info on the removal of guest reviews, read this article and the content guidelines.