Ranking Score Explained

Hey, 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 1752 days 100%
C & A Betts 10/10 1780 days 96%
Joy 10/10 1964 days 89%
Julie Ng 10/10 1964 days 89%
David Jones 10/10 1995 days 88%
Leandro Haedo 10/10 1995 days 88%
Amanda Lawson 10/10 1995 days 88%
Ken Clearwater 10/10 1995 days 88%
Jennifer Bixby 10/10 2117 days 83%
Michiel Jelijs 10/10 2118 days 83%
Jamie Carey 10/10 2118 days 83%
Robert Schwall 10/10 2118 days 83%
Nicky Bromhall 9/10 2146 days 82%
Timthang 9/10 2146 days 82%
Pastore pierrick 9/10 2177 days 80%
Chiara Rossi 9/10 2177 days 80%
Chiara Rossi 9/10 2177 days 80%
Mike Bromfield 9/10 2177 days 80%
Daniel Lamere 10/10 2178 days 81%
NICHOLAS JEUNE 10/10 2178 days 81%
Matthias Van de veire 9/10 2178 days 80%
neil dougall 10/10 2178 days 81%
Tracey Armstrong 9/10 2178 days 80%
Maria Sainis 10/10 2178 days 81%
Christine Wegener 10/10 2208 days 80%
Olli Jääsaari 9/10 2208 days 79%
JACKIE EHRHARDT 10/10 2209 days 80%
Mandy Chee 6/10 2238 days 68%
lainie epstein 8/10 2238 days 77%
John van Herk 10/10 2238 days 79%
Bernard 9/10 2239 days 78%
Paul Russell 10/10 2269 days 78%
Sara Jensen 10/10 2269 days 78%
Stella Wilson 10/10 2269 days 78%
Dennis Rijbroek 9/10 2299 days 76%
Linda Gallagher 10/10 2299 days 77%
Marco Moreira 9/10 2330 days 75%
Happy camper 10/10 2330 days 76%
Jan Grävemeyer 9/10 2361 days 74%
Graça Roquette 10/10 2391 days 73%
Danny Mao 10/10 2391 days 73%
Chloe Bullock 10/10 2391 days 73%
Kate Tipton 10/10 2422 days 72%
Savilla Manuel 10/10 2422 days 72%
Olivier Gergaud 10/10 2452 days 71%
sheena tan 8/10 2453 days 70%
Christine Pooley 10/10 2453 days 71%
Alisa Failor 10/10 2453 days 71%
Aimee Spevak 10/10 2483 days 70%
Winston Bell 10/10 2483 days 70%
Irene Weinkogl 8/10 2483 days 69%
Cory 10/10 2484 days 70%
Tony O’Neill 9/10 2484 days 69%
Jim Lundy and Sherryl Livingston 10/10 2484 days 70%
paul engerand 10/10 2484 days 70%
Paul Smith 10/10 2484 days 70%
Tobias Geiger 8/10 2511 days 68%
Pierre Lemaistre 9/10 2511 days 68%
Melanie Berger 8/10 2511 days 68%
Georges BOUDIN 9/10 2511 days 68%
Tami Bass 10/10 2511 days 69%
Jonathan Taverner 10/10 2511 days 69%
Joanne Enders 10/10 2512 days 69%
Theo Stockmann 10/10 2512 days 69%
agnes janszen 10/10 2542 days 68%
Claire Cherrington 10/10 2542 days 68%
Maria van Loon 10/10 2542 days 68%
Jackie Sue 10/10 2543 days 68%
Alexandra Brown 10/10 2543 days 68%
Paolo Mauro 10/10 2543 days 68%
Matthew Parkman 10/10 2543 days 68%
Tom 10/10 2543 days 68%
Timothy McFadden 10/10 2573 days 67%
Jan Hoffmann 10/10 2573 days 67%
aneta thomsen 8/10 2573 days 65%
Xavier Bracquart 9/10 2573 days 66%
NZroadtrippers 10/10 2574 days 67%
Annabel Mason 10/10 2574 days 67%
Oz and Tina 10/10 2574 days 67%
t h 10/10 2574 days 67%
Claire 10/10 2574 days 67%
Cindy 10/10 2574 days 67%
Sharon Burgess 10/10 2603 days 65%
Boris Leroy 9/10 2603 days 65%
John Wells 10/10 2603 days 65%
javier garcia 9/10 2603 days 65%
Rosanna Nolan 10/10 2603 days 65%
Omid Shahani 10/10 2603 days 65%
Thierry GACHES 9/10 2604 days 65%
Steve Mitchell 9/10 2604 days 65%
Dallas Cluff 10/10 2604 days 65%
Mustaqeem 10/10 2604 days 65%
Diogo Loureiro 10/10 2604 days 65%
Thibaut Drevet 10/10 2604 days 65%
Jude Ong 10/10 2634 days 64%
Todd Weibel 3/10 2635 days 35%
Andrew Brealey 10/10 2635 days 64%
Edward Lowe 10/10 2635 days 64%
Georgia Nery 10/10 2664 days 63%
Kelli Rumore 10/10 2664 days 63%
Kristy 10/10 2664 days 63%
Gillian Hancock 10/10 2664 days 63%
Nichola Stretch 10/10 2695 days 62%
Loh 10/10 2695 days 62%
Vivien Soh 10/10 2695 days 62%
Melissa Hsu 10/10 2726 days 61%
Nicolas Mollet 10/10 2787 days 59%
Jess Ballard 10/10 2787 days 59%
Steve Wilkinson 10/10 2787 days 59%
Jack 10/10 2787 days 59%
Karyn Rayner 9/10 2817 days 57%
Julie Crawshaw 9/10 2817 days 57%
Debbie Wight 9/10 2817 days 57%
David Elliott 10/10 2818 days 58%
Donna Green 10/10 2818 days 58%
anaisbitt@live.com 10/10 2818 days 58%
Jarrod Pudsey 10/10 2818 days 58%
Tabea 10/10 2818 days 58%
Gabriel Santos 10/10 2818 days 58%
Dan Parker 4/10 2848 days 37%
Greg Parry 10/10 2848 days 56%
Laura Porter 10/10 2848 days 56%
Jesper Christensen 10/10 2848 days 56%
Anna Leonard 10/10 2849 days 56%
Ruben Roa Hernandez 9/10 2849 days 56%
Rory Baynes 10/10 2876 days 55%
Sally Irving 10/10 2876 days 55%
jason bassett 10/10 2876 days 55%
Chris Blackwell 9/10 2877 days 55%
Rachelle Philippen 9/10 2877 days 55%
Gordon Hughes 9/10 2907 days 54%
Henk Siegers 7/10 2907 days 50%
Johannes Partheymueller 10/10 2907 days 54%
Emily Freistatter 9/10 2907 days 54%
Pierre Mangin 9/10 2907 days 54%
Nz Traveller 10/10 2907 days 54%
Andy Grayshon 10/10 2907 days 54%
Rozanna Kyle-Robinson 10/10 2907 days 54%
Don Rostedt 9/10 2907 days 54%
martin shale 10/10 2907 days 54%
Mick Havill 10/10 2938 days 53%
Nicole Long 7/10 2938 days 49%
Lindsay Baugh 10/10 2938 days 53%
Pete Halsall 10/10 2938 days 53%
Anika Lakhani 10/10 2938 days 53%
Marjeta Kuralt 10/10 2938 days 53%
Michael Thomas Hermawan 10/10 2968 days 52%
Chris Oberson 10/10 2968 days 52%
Wilson Ting 9/10 2968 days 51%
NOR HISHAM HAJI ALI 10/10 2999 days 51%
Faustino Merlo 9/10 2999 days 50%
Anya Staal 10/10 2999 days 51%
Alan Bannister 10/10 2999 days 51%
Scott Wallis 8/10 2999 days 50%
Ed Shaddick 10/10 3029 days 50%
Rick Hall 10/10 3029 days 50%
Vanessa Paran 10/10 3029 days 50%
Che Junaid Mayet 10/10 3029 days 50%
Happy camper 10/10 3060 days 49%
meghan cuming 10/10 3060 days 49%
Viki Withers 10/10 3091 days 47%
Paul Thompson 10/10 3121 days 46%
Carl Murray 2/10 3152 days 20%
Jared Sartee 10/10 3182 days 44%
Shardul Phadnis 6/10 3182 days 38%
Judy Lawlor 10/10 3182 days 44%
Craig Mckay 9/10 3182 days 44%
Tracy Mering Stephen Law 9/10 3182 days 44%
Dennis Andrews 10/10 3182 days 44%
Nick Borland 10/10 3182 days 44%
Sjoerd Tolsma 9/10 3192 days 26%
Craig McKay 10/10 3202 days 26%
Rosalind Russell 9/10 3213 days 43%
Michal Snehota 10/10 3213 days 43%
murray keig 10/10 3213 days 43%
C Clarke 8/10 3235 days 25%
Clare Yeh 10/10 3241 days 42%
Cadey Korson 9/10 3241 days 41%
Matthew Parkman 10/10 3241 days 42%
Lynn Newhouse 10/10 3241 days 42%
Judy Little 10/10 3241 days 42%
Alice Ormandy 9/10 3257 days 24%
David Tomlinson 10/10 3272 days 41%
John Malone 8/10 3272 days 40%
Marcello Rossini 9/10 3272 days 40%
Leonie Westerhot 10/10 3290 days 24%
Jesse Arthur 10/10 3303 days 40%
Julie Manchester 10/10 3303 days 40%
Carine Av 10/10 3333 days 39%
hans soerensen 10/10 3333 days 39%
Jude Ong 10/10 3333 days 39%
liwen chan 10/10 3333 days 39%
Dalila Mohammed Isa 8/10 3333 days 38%
Wayne Fisher 9/10 3333 days 38%
Gary Ong 1/10 3364 days 15%
Tanya Davies 9/10 3364 days 37%
Heather D 10/10 3394 days 36%
Chea Hao Wong 10/10 3394 days 36%
Ashleigh McCord 9/10 3394 days 36%
Russel Brewty 9/10 3425 days 35%
Pieter Jacobs 10/10 3425 days 35%
Franck Mazas 9/10 3425 days 35%
Matt Tsagopoulos 10/10 3425 days 35%
Kuldeep Nandurkar 10/10 3456 days 34%
weeping ng 10/10 3486 days 33%
Brent Grohman 10/10 3517 days 32%
Ainsley Farrell 10/10 3517 days 32%
Anne Coleman 10/10 3517 days 32%
Casey Blyth 10/10 3547 days 31%
Sim 10/10 3547 days 31%
Lisa Lomas 10/10 3547 days 31%
Amber Jordan 9/10 3547 days 30%
Maarten Simons 8/10 3558 days 18%
Jenny Young 10/10 3568 days 18%
Bob van Hest 10/10 3578 days 29%
Maike Santelmann 8/10 3597 days 17%
Hakim Naj 9/10 3607 days 28%
costa 9/10 3607 days 28%
haslina mohamad 10/10 3608 days 28%
delphine 7/10 3608 days 26%
Damien Brocklejhurst 9/10 3608 days 28%
Chris Simpson 10/10 3629 days 17%
Martin S 10/10 3638 days 27%
Douglas Pinn 10/10 3638 days 27%
Alison Firth 10/10 3639 days 27%
Ben Chong 9/10 3669 days 26%
Konstantinos Parsalidis 10/10 3669 days 26%
Silke Richter 10/10 3670 days 26%
Mónica García 10/10 3700 days 25%
streviews 10/10 3730 days 24%
Lynne Cornish 10/10 3731 days 24%
thomas boutard 10/10 3791 days 22%
Marianne Smith 10/10 3822 days 20%
Melinda McNamara 9/10 3822 days 20%
M E Black 10/10 3852 days 19%
michellehendriks5 10/10 3852 days 19%
Brendan Collins 10/10 3883 days 18%
Adam Munro 10/10 3913 days 17%
Angela Yore 10/10 3913 days 17%
Emma Keegan 6/10 3913 days 15%
Andy Biggins 8/10 3944 days 16%
P Kolk 10/10 3944 days 16%
Dimitri Jacobs 10/10 3972 days 15%
Thomas Sartorius 10/10 3972 days 15%
Jane Curren 10/10 3972 days 15%
Morgan Thomas 10/10 4034 days 13%
Autocaravanista 10/10 4064 days 11%
M Bailey 10/10 4095 days 10%
Dustin Strong 10/10 4125 days 9%
Daniel Field 10/10 4156 days 8%
Nuria Rivas 10/10 4187 days 7%
Ash K 10/10 4217 days 6%
ashbyg 10/10 4248 days 5%
Andrei Kuek 10/10 4248 days 5%
Wilma Heij 9/10 4279 days 4%
Mark McCadden 10/10 4279 days 4%
Chris Jackson 10/10 4279 days 4%
Vince V. 10/10 4279 days 4%
Nicholas Chapman 10/10 4279 days 4%
Thomas Chacko 10/10 4310 days 2%
Linda Simpson 9/10 4310 days 2%
Tim 9/10 4338 days 1%
Eran Israel 10/10 4338 days 1%
Filip Goles 10/10 4369 days 0%
Johan Hereora Hummerhielm 2/10 4369 days 0%
JoMary Smith 7/10 4369 days 0%
Christine Jepp 10/10 4369 days 0%
Simon Fayers 10/10 4400 days 19%
Dutchie 9/10 4400 days 19%
Peter Krivanek 10/10 4400 days 19%
Anne Beveridge 9/10 4430 days 19%
John 10/10 4430 days 19%
Michael M 10/10 4490 days 19%
marianne van eykelenborg 10/10 4490 days 19%
Paul Molloy 10/10 4490 days 19%
Poko Tapurau 10/10 4521 days 19%
Brent Gowan 10/10 4582 days 19%
Mirza 8/10 4734 days 18%
Ann 10/10 4734 days 19%
Jonathan Falgren 10/10 4734 days 19%
Philip Dickie 10/10 5008 days 19%
DavidB 7/10 5040 days 17%
Alan Findlay 9/10 5055 days 11%
Whistlerdewd 10/10 5069 days 19%
Dexter 10/10 5344 days 19%
G Elliason 7/10 5420 days 10%
paris claire 10/10 5421 days 11%
Ron 9/10 5526 days 19%
Bob Kusesia 10/10 5772 days 11%
Ian Watson 10/10 5772 days 11%
M and H Lunn 8/10 5780 days 11%
David Hobson 8/10 5791 days 11%
Carina Raeder 9/10 5797 days 11%
Hans & Karin 7/10 5865 days 10%
andrew walmsley 10/10 6074 days 19%
MiepS 9/10 6092 days 11%
Ning Chan 9/10 6105 days 19%
LindaV 8/10 6139 days 11%
Oscar 7/10 6485 days 10%
Peter 9/10 6887 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

-7.05% 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 -3.99%
198 -4.01%
199 -4.03%
200 -4.05%
201 -4.07%
202 -4.09%
203 -4.11%

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.