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 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

300 Valid Reviews

The Affordable Motor Home Rentals experience has a total of 305 reviews. There are 300 valid reviews that are included when calculating the ranking score and 5 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 300 valid reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 205
68%
9/10 62
21%
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%

94.33% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Affordable Motor Home Rentals valid reviews is 94.33% and is based on 300 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 300 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

95.60%

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 1740 days 100%
C & A Betts 10/10 1768 days 96%
Joy 10/10 1953 days 88%
Julie Ng 10/10 1953 days 88%
David Jones 10/10 1984 days 87%
Leandro Haedo 10/10 1984 days 87%
Amanda Lawson 10/10 1984 days 87%
Ken Clearwater 10/10 1984 days 87%
Jennifer Bixby 10/10 2105 days 82%
Michiel Jelijs 10/10 2106 days 82%
Jamie Carey 10/10 2106 days 82%
Robert Schwall 10/10 2106 days 82%
Nicky Bromhall 9/10 2134 days 80%
Timthang 9/10 2134 days 80%
Pastore pierrick 9/10 2165 days 79%
Chiara Rossi 9/10 2165 days 79%
Chiara Rossi 9/10 2165 days 79%
Mike Bromfield 9/10 2165 days 79%
Daniel Lamere 10/10 2166 days 80%
NICHOLAS JEUNE 10/10 2166 days 80%
Matthias Van de veire 9/10 2166 days 79%
neil dougall 10/10 2166 days 80%
Tracey Armstrong 9/10 2166 days 79%
Maria Sainis 10/10 2166 days 80%
Christine Wegener 10/10 2196 days 79%
Olli Jääsaari 9/10 2196 days 78%
JACKIE EHRHARDT 10/10 2197 days 79%
Mandy Chee 6/10 2226 days 67%
lainie epstein 8/10 2226 days 76%
John van Herk 10/10 2226 days 78%
Bernard 9/10 2227 days 77%
Paul Russell 10/10 2257 days 77%
Sara Jensen 10/10 2257 days 77%
Stella Wilson 10/10 2257 days 77%
Dennis Rijbroek 9/10 2287 days 75%
Linda Gallagher 10/10 2288 days 76%
Marco Moreira 9/10 2318 days 74%
Happy camper 10/10 2319 days 74%
Jan Grävemeyer 9/10 2349 days 73%
Graça Roquette 10/10 2380 days 72%
Danny Mao 10/10 2380 days 72%
Chloe Bullock 10/10 2380 days 72%
Kate Tipton 10/10 2410 days 71%
Savilla Manuel 10/10 2411 days 71%
Olivier Gergaud 10/10 2440 days 70%
sheena tan 8/10 2441 days 69%
Christine Pooley 10/10 2441 days 70%
Alisa Failor 10/10 2441 days 70%
Aimee Spevak 10/10 2471 days 69%
Winston Bell 10/10 2471 days 69%
Irene Weinkogl 8/10 2471 days 68%
Cory 10/10 2472 days 69%
Tony O’Neill 9/10 2472 days 68%
Jim Lundy and Sherryl Livingston 10/10 2472 days 69%
paul engerand 10/10 2472 days 69%
Paul Smith 10/10 2472 days 69%
Tobias Geiger 8/10 2499 days 67%
Pierre Lemaistre 9/10 2499 days 67%
Melanie Berger 8/10 2499 days 67%
Georges BOUDIN 9/10 2499 days 67%
Tami Bass 10/10 2499 days 68%
Jonathan Taverner 10/10 2499 days 68%
Joanne Enders 10/10 2500 days 68%
Theo Stockmann 10/10 2500 days 68%
agnes janszen 10/10 2530 days 67%
Claire Cherrington 10/10 2530 days 67%
Maria van Loon 10/10 2530 days 67%
Jackie Sue 10/10 2531 days 67%
Alexandra Brown 10/10 2531 days 67%
Paolo Mauro 10/10 2531 days 67%
Matthew Parkman 10/10 2531 days 67%
Tom 10/10 2531 days 67%
Timothy McFadden 10/10 2561 days 66%
Jan Hoffmann 10/10 2561 days 66%
aneta thomsen 8/10 2561 days 64%
Xavier Bracquart 9/10 2561 days 65%
NZroadtrippers 10/10 2562 days 66%
Annabel Mason 10/10 2562 days 66%
Oz and Tina 10/10 2562 days 66%
t h 10/10 2562 days 66%
Claire 10/10 2562 days 66%
Cindy 10/10 2562 days 66%
Sharon Burgess 10/10 2591 days 65%
Boris Leroy 9/10 2591 days 64%
John Wells 10/10 2591 days 65%
javier garcia 9/10 2591 days 64%
Rosanna Nolan 10/10 2591 days 65%
Omid Shahani 10/10 2591 days 65%
Thierry GACHES 9/10 2592 days 64%
Steve Mitchell 9/10 2592 days 64%
Dallas Cluff 10/10 2592 days 65%
Mustaqeem 10/10 2592 days 65%
Diogo Loureiro 10/10 2592 days 65%
Thibaut Drevet 10/10 2592 days 65%
Jude Ong 10/10 2622 days 63%
Todd Weibel 3/10 2623 days 34%
Andrew Brealey 10/10 2623 days 63%
Edward Lowe 10/10 2623 days 63%
Georgia Nery 10/10 2652 days 62%
Kelli Rumore 10/10 2652 days 62%
Kristy 10/10 2653 days 62%
Gillian Hancock 10/10 2653 days 62%
Nichola Stretch 10/10 2683 days 61%
Loh 10/10 2684 days 61%
Vivien Soh 10/10 2684 days 61%
Melissa Hsu 10/10 2715 days 60%
Nicolas Mollet 10/10 2775 days 58%
Jess Ballard 10/10 2775 days 58%
Steve Wilkinson 10/10 2776 days 58%
Jack 10/10 2776 days 58%
Karyn Rayner 9/10 2805 days 56%
Julie Crawshaw 9/10 2805 days 56%
Debbie Wight 9/10 2805 days 56%
David Elliott 10/10 2806 days 57%
Donna Green 10/10 2806 days 57%
anaisbitt@live.com 10/10 2806 days 57%
Jarrod Pudsey 10/10 2806 days 57%
Tabea 10/10 2806 days 57%
Gabriel Santos 10/10 2806 days 57%
Dan Parker 4/10 2836 days 36%
Greg Parry 10/10 2836 days 56%
Laura Porter 10/10 2836 days 56%
Jesper Christensen 10/10 2836 days 56%
Anna Leonard 10/10 2837 days 56%
Ruben Roa Hernandez 9/10 2837 days 55%
Rory Baynes 10/10 2864 days 55%
Sally Irving 10/10 2864 days 55%
jason bassett 10/10 2864 days 55%
Chris Blackwell 9/10 2865 days 54%
Rachelle Philippen 9/10 2865 days 54%
Gordon Hughes 9/10 2895 days 53%
Henk Siegers 7/10 2895 days 50%
Johannes Partheymueller 10/10 2895 days 54%
Emily Freistatter 9/10 2895 days 53%
Pierre Mangin 9/10 2895 days 53%
Nz Traveller 10/10 2895 days 54%
Andy Grayshon 10/10 2895 days 54%
Rozanna Kyle-Robinson 10/10 2895 days 54%
Don Rostedt 9/10 2895 days 53%
martin shale 10/10 2895 days 54%
Mick Havill 10/10 2926 days 52%
Nicole Long 7/10 2926 days 49%
Lindsay Baugh 10/10 2926 days 52%
Pete Halsall 10/10 2926 days 52%
Anika Lakhani 10/10 2926 days 52%
Marjeta Kuralt 10/10 2926 days 52%
Michael Thomas Hermawan 10/10 2956 days 51%
Chris Oberson 10/10 2956 days 51%
Wilson Ting 9/10 2956 days 51%
NOR HISHAM HAJI ALI 10/10 2987 days 50%
Faustino Merlo 9/10 2987 days 50%
Anya Staal 10/10 2987 days 50%
Alan Bannister 10/10 2987 days 50%
Scott Wallis 8/10 2987 days 49%
Ed Shaddick 10/10 3017 days 49%
Rick Hall 10/10 3017 days 49%
Vanessa Paran 10/10 3017 days 49%
Che Junaid Mayet 10/10 3017 days 49%
Happy camper 10/10 3048 days 48%
meghan cuming 10/10 3048 days 48%
Viki Withers 10/10 3079 days 47%
Paul Thompson 10/10 3109 days 46%
Carl Murray 2/10 3140 days 20%
Jared Sartee 10/10 3170 days 44%
Shardul Phadnis 6/10 3170 days 37%
Judy Lawlor 10/10 3170 days 44%
Craig Mckay 9/10 3170 days 43%
Tracy Mering Stephen Law 9/10 3170 days 43%
Dennis Andrews 10/10 3170 days 44%
Nick Borland 10/10 3170 days 44%
Sjoerd Tolsma 9/10 3180 days 25%
Craig McKay 10/10 3190 days 26%
Rosalind Russell 9/10 3201 days 42%
Michal Snehota 10/10 3201 days 42%
murray keig 10/10 3201 days 42%
C Clarke 8/10 3223 days 24%
Clare Yeh 10/10 3229 days 41%
Cadey Korson 9/10 3229 days 41%
Matthew Parkman 10/10 3229 days 41%
Lynn Newhouse 10/10 3229 days 41%
Judy Little 10/10 3229 days 41%
Alice Ormandy 9/10 3245 days 24%
David Tomlinson 10/10 3260 days 40%
John Malone 8/10 3260 days 39%
Marcello Rossini 9/10 3260 days 40%
Leonie Westerhot 10/10 3278 days 24%
Jesse Arthur 10/10 3291 days 39%
Julie Manchester 10/10 3291 days 39%
Carine Av 10/10 3321 days 38%
hans soerensen 10/10 3321 days 38%
Jude Ong 10/10 3321 days 38%
liwen chan 10/10 3321 days 38%
Dalila Mohammed Isa 8/10 3321 days 37%
Wayne Fisher 9/10 3321 days 38%
Gary Ong 1/10 3352 days 15%
Tanya Davies 9/10 3352 days 37%
Heather D 10/10 3382 days 36%
Chea Hao Wong 10/10 3382 days 36%
Ashleigh McCord 9/10 3382 days 35%
Russel Brewty 9/10 3413 days 34%
Pieter Jacobs 10/10 3413 days 35%
Franck Mazas 9/10 3413 days 34%
Matt Tsagopoulos 10/10 3413 days 35%
Kuldeep Nandurkar 10/10 3444 days 34%
weeping ng 10/10 3474 days 33%
Brent Grohman 10/10 3505 days 31%
Ainsley Farrell 10/10 3505 days 31%
Anne Coleman 10/10 3505 days 31%
Casey Blyth 10/10 3535 days 30%
Sim 10/10 3535 days 30%
Lisa Lomas 10/10 3535 days 30%
Amber Jordan 9/10 3535 days 30%
Maarten Simons 8/10 3546 days 17%
Jenny Young 10/10 3556 days 18%
Bob van Hest 10/10 3566 days 29%
Maike Santelmann 8/10 3585 days 16%
Hakim Naj 9/10 3595 days 28%
costa 9/10 3595 days 28%
haslina mohamad 10/10 3596 days 28%
delphine 7/10 3596 days 26%
Damien Brocklejhurst 9/10 3596 days 28%
Chris Simpson 10/10 3617 days 16%
Martin S 10/10 3626 days 27%
Douglas Pinn 10/10 3626 days 27%
Alison Firth 10/10 3627 days 27%
Ben Chong 9/10 3657 days 26%
Konstantinos Parsalidis 10/10 3657 days 26%
Silke Richter 10/10 3658 days 26%
Mónica García 10/10 3688 days 25%
streviews 10/10 3718 days 24%
Lynne Cornish 10/10 3719 days 24%
thomas boutard 10/10 3780 days 21%
Marianne Smith 10/10 3810 days 20%
Melinda McNamara 9/10 3810 days 20%
M E Black 10/10 3840 days 19%
michellehendriks5 10/10 3840 days 19%
Brendan Collins 10/10 3871 days 18%
Adam Munro 10/10 3901 days 17%
Angela Yore 10/10 3901 days 17%
Emma Keegan 6/10 3901 days 15%
Andy Biggins 8/10 3932 days 16%
P Kolk 10/10 3932 days 16%
Dimitri Jacobs 10/10 3960 days 15%
Thomas Sartorius 10/10 3960 days 15%
Jane Curren 10/10 3960 days 15%
Morgan Thomas 10/10 4022 days 13%
Autocaravanista 10/10 4052 days 12%
M Bailey 10/10 4083 days 10%
Dustin Strong 10/10 4113 days 9%
Daniel Field 10/10 4145 days 8%
Nuria Rivas 10/10 4176 days 7%
Ash K 10/10 4206 days 6%
ashbyg 10/10 4237 days 5%
Andrei Kuek 10/10 4237 days 5%
Wilma Heij 9/10 4267 days 4%
Mark McCadden 10/10 4267 days 4%
Chris Jackson 10/10 4267 days 4%
Vince V. 10/10 4267 days 4%
Nicholas Chapman 10/10 4267 days 4%
Thomas Chacko 10/10 4298 days 3%
Linda Simpson 9/10 4298 days 3%
Tim 9/10 4326 days 2%
Eran Israel 10/10 4326 days 2%
Filip Goles 10/10 4357 days 0%
Johan Hereora Hummerhielm 2/10 4357 days 0%
JoMary Smith 7/10 4357 days 0%
Christine Jepp 10/10 4357 days 0%
Simon Fayers 10/10 4388 days 18%
Dutchie 9/10 4388 days 18%
Peter Krivanek 10/10 4388 days 18%
Anne Beveridge 9/10 4418 days 18%
John 10/10 4418 days 18%
Michael M 10/10 4479 days 18%
marianne van eykelenborg 10/10 4479 days 18%
Paul Molloy 10/10 4479 days 18%
Poko Tapurau 10/10 4510 days 18%
Brent Gowan 10/10 4571 days 18%
Mirza 8/10 4722 days 18%
Ann 10/10 4722 days 18%
Jonathan Falgren 10/10 4722 days 18%
Philip Dickie 10/10 4996 days 18%
DavidB 7/10 5028 days 17%
Alan Findlay 9/10 5043 days 11%
Whistlerdewd 10/10 5057 days 18%
Dexter 10/10 5333 days 18%
G Elliason 7/10 5408 days 10%
paris claire 10/10 5409 days 11%
Ron 9/10 5514 days 18%
Bob Kusesia 10/10 5760 days 11%
Ian Watson 10/10 5760 days 11%
M and H Lunn 8/10 5768 days 10%
David Hobson 8/10 5779 days 10%
Carina Raeder 9/10 5785 days 11%
Hans & Karin 7/10 5853 days 10%
andrew walmsley 10/10 6063 days 18%
MiepS 9/10 6081 days 11%
Ning Chan 9/10 6093 days 18%
LindaV 8/10 6127 days 10%
Oscar 7/10 6473 days 10%
Peter 9/10 6875 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

-7.07% 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 42 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 -4.01%
198 -4.03%
199 -4.05%
200 -4.07%
201 -4.09%
202 -4.11%
203 -4.13%

Balancing Adjustment

1.21% 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.