Ranking Score Explained

G'day, 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

95.56%

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 1807 days 100%
C & A Betts 10/10 1835 days 99%
Joy 10/10 2019 days 92%
Julie Ng 10/10 2019 days 92%
David Jones 10/10 2050 days 91%
Leandro Haedo 10/10 2050 days 91%
Amanda Lawson 10/10 2050 days 91%
Ken Clearwater 10/10 2050 days 91%
Jennifer Bixby 10/10 2172 days 86%
Michiel Jelijs 10/10 2172 days 86%
Jamie Carey 10/10 2172 days 86%
Robert Schwall 10/10 2172 days 86%
Nicky Bromhall 9/10 2201 days 84%
Timthang 9/10 2201 days 84%
Pastore pierrick 9/10 2232 days 83%
Chiara Rossi 9/10 2232 days 83%
Mike Bromfield 9/10 2232 days 83%
Daniel Lamere 10/10 2232 days 84%
NICHOLAS JEUNE 10/10 2232 days 84%
Matthias Van de veire 9/10 2232 days 83%
neil dougall 10/10 2232 days 84%
Tracey Armstrong 9/10 2232 days 83%
Maria Sainis 10/10 2232 days 84%
Christine Wegener 10/10 2263 days 82%
Olli Jääsaari 9/10 2263 days 82%
JACKIE EHRHARDT 10/10 2263 days 82%
Mandy Chee 6/10 2293 days 70%
lainie epstein 8/10 2293 days 80%
John van Herk 10/10 2293 days 81%
Bernard 9/10 2293 days 80%
Paul Russell 10/10 2324 days 80%
Sara Jensen 10/10 2324 days 80%
Stella Wilson 10/10 2324 days 80%
Dennis Rijbroek 9/10 2354 days 78%
Linda Gallagher 10/10 2354 days 79%
Marco Moreira 9/10 2385 days 77%
Happy camper 10/10 2385 days 78%
Jan Grävemeyer 9/10 2416 days 76%
Graça Roquette 10/10 2446 days 75%
Danny Mao 10/10 2446 days 75%
Chloe Bullock 10/10 2446 days 75%
Kate Tipton 10/10 2477 days 74%
Savilla Manuel 10/10 2477 days 74%
Olivier Gergaud 10/10 2507 days 73%
sheena tan 8/10 2507 days 71%
Christine Pooley 10/10 2507 days 73%
Alisa Failor 10/10 2507 days 73%
Aimee Spevak 10/10 2538 days 72%
Winston Bell 10/10 2538 days 72%
Irene Weinkogl 8/10 2538 days 70%
Cory 10/10 2538 days 72%
Tony O’Neill 9/10 2538 days 71%
Jim Lundy and Sherryl Livingston 10/10 2538 days 72%
paul engerand 10/10 2538 days 72%
Paul Smith 10/10 2538 days 72%
Tobias Geiger 8/10 2566 days 69%
Pierre Lemaistre 9/10 2566 days 70%
Melanie Berger 8/10 2566 days 69%
Georges BOUDIN 9/10 2566 days 70%
Tami Bass 10/10 2566 days 71%
Jonathan Taverner 10/10 2566 days 71%
Joanne Enders 10/10 2566 days 71%
Theo Stockmann 10/10 2566 days 71%
agnes janszen 10/10 2597 days 69%
Claire Cherrington 10/10 2597 days 69%
Maria van Loon 10/10 2597 days 69%
Jackie Sue 10/10 2597 days 69%
Alexandra Brown 10/10 2597 days 69%
Paolo Mauro 10/10 2597 days 69%
Matthew Parkman 10/10 2597 days 69%
Tom 10/10 2597 days 69%
Timothy McFadden 10/10 2628 days 68%
Jan Hoffmann 10/10 2628 days 68%
aneta thomsen 8/10 2628 days 67%
Xavier Bracquart 9/10 2628 days 67%
NZroadtrippers 10/10 2628 days 68%
Annabel Mason 10/10 2628 days 68%
Oz and Tina 10/10 2628 days 68%
t h 10/10 2628 days 68%
Claire 10/10 2628 days 68%
Cindy 10/10 2628 days 68%
Sharon Burgess 10/10 2658 days 67%
Boris Leroy 9/10 2658 days 66%
John Wells 10/10 2658 days 67%
javier garcia 9/10 2658 days 66%
Rosanna Nolan 10/10 2658 days 67%
Omid Shahani 10/10 2658 days 67%
Thierry GACHES 9/10 2658 days 66%
Steve Mitchell 9/10 2658 days 66%
Dallas Cluff 10/10 2658 days 67%
Mustaqeem 10/10 2658 days 67%
Diogo Loureiro 10/10 2658 days 67%
Thibaut Drevet 10/10 2658 days 67%
Jude Ong 10/10 2689 days 66%
Todd Weibel 3/10 2689 days 36%
Andrew Brealey 10/10 2689 days 66%
Edward Lowe 10/10 2689 days 66%
Georgia Nery 10/10 2719 days 65%
Kelli Rumore 10/10 2719 days 65%
Kristy 10/10 2719 days 65%
Gillian Hancock 10/10 2719 days 65%
Nichola Stretch 10/10 2750 days 63%
Loh 10/10 2750 days 63%
Vivien Soh 10/10 2750 days 63%
Melissa Hsu 10/10 2781 days 62%
Nicolas Mollet 10/10 2842 days 60%
Jess Ballard 10/10 2842 days 60%
Steve Wilkinson 10/10 2842 days 60%
Jack 10/10 2842 days 60%
Karyn Rayner 9/10 2872 days 58%
Julie Crawshaw 9/10 2872 days 58%
Debbie Wight 9/10 2872 days 58%
David Elliott 10/10 2872 days 59%
Donna Green 10/10 2872 days 59%
anaisbitt@live.com 10/10 2872 days 59%
Jarrod Pudsey 10/10 2872 days 59%
Tabea 10/10 2872 days 59%
Gabriel Santos 10/10 2872 days 59%
Dan Parker 4/10 2903 days 37%
Greg Parry 10/10 2903 days 57%
Laura Porter 10/10 2903 days 57%
Jesper Christensen 10/10 2903 days 57%
Anna Leonard 10/10 2903 days 57%
Ruben Roa Hernandez 9/10 2903 days 57%
Rory Baynes 10/10 2931 days 56%
Sally Irving 10/10 2931 days 56%
jason bassett 10/10 2931 days 56%
Chris Blackwell 9/10 2931 days 56%
Rachelle Philippen 9/10 2931 days 56%
Gordon Hughes 9/10 2962 days 54%
Henk Siegers 7/10 2962 days 51%
Johannes Partheymueller 10/10 2962 days 55%
Emily Freistatter 9/10 2962 days 54%
Pierre Mangin 9/10 2962 days 54%
Nz Traveller 10/10 2962 days 55%
Andy Grayshon 10/10 2962 days 55%
Rozanna Kyle-Robinson 10/10 2962 days 55%
Don Rostedt 9/10 2962 days 54%
martin shale 10/10 2962 days 55%
Mick Havill 10/10 2993 days 54%
Nicole Long 7/10 2993 days 50%
Lindsay Baugh 10/10 2993 days 54%
Pete Halsall 10/10 2993 days 54%
Anika Lakhani 10/10 2993 days 54%
Marjeta Kuralt 10/10 2993 days 54%
Michael Thomas Hermawan 10/10 3023 days 53%
Chris Oberson 10/10 3023 days 53%
Wilson Ting 9/10 3023 days 52%
NOR HISHAM HAJI ALI 10/10 3054 days 51%
Faustino Merlo 9/10 3054 days 51%
Anya Staal 10/10 3054 days 51%
Alan Bannister 10/10 3054 days 51%
Scott Wallis 8/10 3054 days 50%
Ed Shaddick 10/10 3084 days 50%
Rick Hall 10/10 3084 days 50%
Vanessa Paran 10/10 3084 days 50%
Che Junaid Mayet 10/10 3084 days 50%
Happy camper 10/10 3115 days 49%
meghan cuming 10/10 3115 days 49%
Viki Withers 10/10 3146 days 48%
Paul Thompson 10/10 3176 days 47%
Carl Murray 2/10 3207 days 20%
Jared Sartee 10/10 3237 days 44%
Shardul Phadnis 6/10 3237 days 38%
Judy Lawlor 10/10 3237 days 44%
Craig Mckay 9/10 3237 days 44%
Tracy Mering Stephen Law 9/10 3237 days 44%
Dennis Andrews 10/10 3237 days 44%
Nick Borland 10/10 3237 days 44%
Sjoerd Tolsma 9/10 3246 days 26%
Craig McKay 10/10 3256 days 26%
Rosalind Russell 9/10 3268 days 43%
Michal Snehota 10/10 3268 days 43%
murray keig 10/10 3268 days 43%
C Clarke 8/10 3289 days 24%
Clare Yeh 10/10 3296 days 42%
Cadey Korson 9/10 3296 days 41%
Matthew Parkman 10/10 3296 days 42%
Lynn Newhouse 10/10 3296 days 42%
Judy Little 10/10 3296 days 42%
Alice Ormandy 9/10 3311 days 24%
David Tomlinson 10/10 3327 days 41%
John Malone 8/10 3327 days 40%
Marcello Rossini 9/10 3327 days 40%
Leonie Westerhot 10/10 3344 days 24%
Jesse Arthur 10/10 3358 days 39%
Julie Manchester 10/10 3358 days 39%
Carine Av 10/10 3388 days 38%
hans soerensen 10/10 3388 days 38%
Jude Ong 10/10 3388 days 38%
liwen chan 10/10 3388 days 38%
Dalila Mohammed Isa 8/10 3388 days 38%
Wayne Fisher 9/10 3388 days 38%
Gary Ong 1/10 3419 days 15%
Tanya Davies 9/10 3419 days 37%
Heather D 10/10 3449 days 36%
Chea Hao Wong 10/10 3449 days 36%
Ashleigh McCord 9/10 3449 days 36%
Russel Brewty 9/10 3480 days 34%
Pieter Jacobs 10/10 3480 days 35%
Franck Mazas 9/10 3480 days 34%
Matt Tsagopoulos 10/10 3480 days 35%
Kuldeep Nandurkar 10/10 3511 days 33%
weeping ng 10/10 3541 days 32%
Brent Grohman 10/10 3572 days 31%
Ainsley Farrell 10/10 3572 days 31%
Anne Coleman 10/10 3572 days 31%
Casey Blyth 10/10 3602 days 30%
Sim 10/10 3602 days 30%
Lisa Lomas 10/10 3602 days 30%
Amber Jordan 9/10 3602 days 30%
Maarten Simons 8/10 3612 days 17%
Jenny Young 10/10 3622 days 17%
Bob van Hest 10/10 3633 days 29%
Maike Santelmann 8/10 3651 days 16%
Hakim Naj 9/10 3662 days 27%
costa 9/10 3662 days 27%
haslina mohamad 10/10 3662 days 28%
delphine 7/10 3662 days 26%
Damien Brocklejhurst 9/10 3662 days 27%
Chris Simpson 10/10 3683 days 16%
Martin S 10/10 3693 days 26%
Douglas Pinn 10/10 3693 days 26%
Alison Firth 10/10 3693 days 26%
Ben Chong 9/10 3724 days 25%
Konstantinos Parsalidis 10/10 3724 days 25%
Silke Richter 10/10 3724 days 25%
Mónica García 10/10 3754 days 24%
streviews 10/10 3785 days 23%
Lynne Cornish 10/10 3785 days 23%
thomas boutard 10/10 3846 days 20%
Marianne Smith 10/10 3877 days 19%
Melinda McNamara 9/10 3877 days 19%
M E Black 10/10 3907 days 18%
michellehendriks5 10/10 3907 days 18%
Brendan Collins 10/10 3938 days 17%
Adam Munro 10/10 3968 days 16%
Angela Yore 10/10 3968 days 16%
Emma Keegan 6/10 3968 days 13%
Andy Biggins 8/10 3999 days 14%
P Kolk 10/10 3999 days 14%
Dimitri Jacobs 10/10 4027 days 13%
Thomas Sartorius 10/10 4027 days 13%
Jane Curren 10/10 4027 days 13%
Morgan Thomas 10/10 4089 days 11%
Autocaravanista 10/10 4119 days 10%
M Bailey 10/10 4150 days 8%
Dustin Strong 10/10 4180 days 7%
Daniel Field 10/10 4211 days 6%
Nuria Rivas 10/10 4242 days 5%
Ash K 10/10 4272 days 4%
ashbyg 10/10 4303 days 2%
Andrei Kuek 10/10 4303 days 2%
Wilma Heij 9/10 4333 days 1%
Mark McCadden 10/10 4333 days 1%
Chris Jackson 10/10 4333 days 1%
Vince V. 10/10 4333 days 1%
Nicholas Chapman 10/10 4333 days 1%
Thomas Chacko 10/10 4364 days 0%
Linda Simpson 9/10 4364 days 0%
Tim 9/10 4392 days 19%
Eran Israel 10/10 4392 days 19%
Filip Goles 10/10 4423 days 19%
Johan Hereora Hummerhielm 2/10 4423 days 9%
JoMary Smith 7/10 4423 days 18%
Christine Jepp 10/10 4423 days 19%
Simon Fayers 10/10 4454 days 19%
Dutchie 9/10 4454 days 19%
Peter Krivanek 10/10 4454 days 19%
Anne Beveridge 9/10 4484 days 19%
John 10/10 4484 days 19%
Michael M 10/10 4545 days 19%
marianne van eykelenborg 10/10 4545 days 19%
Paul Molloy 10/10 4545 days 19%
Poko Tapurau 10/10 4576 days 19%
Brent Gowan 10/10 4637 days 19%
Mirza 8/10 4788 days 19%
Ann 10/10 4788 days 19%
Jonathan Falgren 10/10 4788 days 19%
Philip Dickie 10/10 5063 days 19%
DavidB 7/10 5094 days 18%
Alan Findlay 9/10 5109 days 11%
Whistlerdewd 10/10 5123 days 19%
Dexter 10/10 5399 days 19%
G Elliason 7/10 5474 days 10%
paris claire 10/10 5475 days 11%
Ron 9/10 5580 days 19%
Bob Kusesia 10/10 5826 days 11%
Ian Watson 10/10 5826 days 11%
M and H Lunn 8/10 5834 days 11%
David Hobson 8/10 5845 days 11%
Carina Raeder 9/10 5851 days 11%
Hans & Karin 7/10 5919 days 10%
andrew walmsley 10/10 6129 days 19%
MiepS 9/10 6147 days 11%
Ning Chan 9/10 6159 days 19%
LindaV 8/10 6193 days 11%
Oscar 7/10 6539 days 10%
Peter 9/10 6941 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

-7.15% 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 51 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 -4.09%
198 -4.11%
199 -4.13%
200 -4.15%
201 -4.18%
202 -4.20%
203 -4.22%

Balancing Adjustment

1.23% 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.