Announcing the 2010 Reviewers’ Choice Hotel Awards from FunnelScope, an Innovative Hotel Search Engine

FunnelScope announces the first hotel awards based on user reviews! These awards leverage an innovative approach of aggregating millions of reviews from travel and review sites and scoring each review for key criteria and categories. The winning hotels by each category are listed below. Congratulations to the 2010 Reviewers’ Choice Hotel Award winners!

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 19, 2010

The Reviewers’ Choice Hotel Awards for U.S. hotels provide a unique and broad perspective by taking into account user experiences via millions of unbiased hotel reviews and distilling their implied ratings across numerous categories. These categories include: bed comfort, bathroom quality, beach hotels, service quality, business, access to entertainment, family-friendly, gym quality, pet-friendly, pool quality, romantic, overall value, and quality of views.

These days most of us rely on user reviews to help us make travel decisions. FunnelScope's hotel search engine takes this a step further by quantifying user reviews into ratings that can be quickly and easily understood. FunnelScope's unique semantic technology was used in scoring the reviews.

Millions of hotel reviews are posted online each year at multiple websites. It’s too much information to digest. In fact, it’s nearly impossible, not to mention a time waste, to find and read all the hotel reviews available. But online hotel reviews are a trusted and valuable source of information. They help people make their hotel booking decisions and often are a key factor that determines the quality of their trip.

Funnelscope solves the problem of being able to digest all that information.

Travelers have been waiting for someone smart to compile all that hotel review information on the web into an easily digestible format. Travelers only want to see reviews that help them find a hotel that meets their needs. FunnelScope is doing just that - simplifying hotels research to find the perfect hotel.

The awards are listed below by category. Congratulations to the hotels listed. They’ve won FunnelScope’s first annual Reviewers Choice awards.

Consumers searching for the right hotel are also winners. Why? Because now they can use FunnelScope’s innovative hotel research engine to generate a personalized hotel list specific to their criteria and location (city or neighborhood).

Awesome Beach Hotels:

Park Shore Waikiki - Honolulu, Hawaii

Ramada Plaza Beach Resort- Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Sheraton Princess Kaiulani- Honolulu, Hawaii

Outrigger Waikiki On the Beach- Honolulu, Hawaii

Pacific Edge Hotel On Laguna Beach- Laguna Beach, California

Moana Surfrider Waikiki Beach- Honolulu, Hawaii

Fontaineblueau- Miami Beach, Florida

Shutters On the Beach- Santa Monica, California

Royal Kona Resort- Kona, Hawaii

Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel- Honolulu, Hawaii

Business Traveler’s Top Picks:

The Orchard Hotel- San Francisco, California

Best Western Westminster Inn- Westminster, California

The Tremont Hotel- Chicago, Illinois

the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead- Atlanta, Georgia

Beacon Hotel & Corporate Quarters- Washington, DC

San Francisco Marriott- San Francisco,California

Villa Florence, A Larkspur Collection Hotel- San Francisco, California

Club Quarters- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Millennium Hilton- New York, New York

W- San Fransisco, California

Close to Entertainment:

Holiday Inn Charleston (Historic District) - Charleston, South Carolina

The Belleview Biltmore Resort - Clearwater, Florida

Hotel Jeffery- Coulterville, California

Imperial Palace Casino Resort Spa- Las Vegas, Nevada

Marriott's Custom House- Boston, Massachusetts

Sir Francis Drake- A Kimpton Hotel- San Francisco, California

Georgian Terrace Hotel- Atlanta,Georgia

Ramada Plaza Beach Resort- Fort Walton Beach, Florida

21 C Museum Hotel- Louisville,Kentucky

Holiday Inn El Tropicano Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas

Most Family Friendly:

Hilton Grand Vacations Club At Seaworld- Orlando, Florida

Ramada Plaza Beach Resort- Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Anabelle Hotel- Anaheim, California

Doubletree Guest Suites Times Square- New York, New York

Sheraton Vistana Villages- Orlando, Florida

Sirata Beach Resort- St. Petersburg, Florida

Dunes Village Resort- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Arizona Grand Resort- Phoenix, Arizona

Lake Buena Vista Resort Village & Spa- Lake Buena Vista,Florida

Pink Shell Beach Resort & Spa- Fort Myers, Florida

Pet Friendly Award:

Best Western Inn- Blakeslee- Pocono, Pennsylvania

Drury Inn & Suites Greensboro- North Carolina

The Ellis Hotel- Atlanta, Georgia

Beazley House- Napa, California

Doubltree Guest Suites- Lexington, Kentucky

Holiday Inn- Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

Best Western Great Smokies Inn- Cherokee, North Carolina

Mariner Motel- Falmouth, Massachusetts

7 Springs Inn & Suites- Palm Springs, California

Sheraton Music City Hotel- Nashville, Tennessee

Best Pools:

Residence Inn Orlando Seaworld- Orlando, Florida

Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort- Panama City Beach, Florida

Universal's Hard Rock Hotel- Orlando, Florida

Sheraton Safari Hotel & Suites Lake Buena Vista- Orlando, Florida

Best Western Key Ambassador Resort Inn- Key West, Florida

The Westin Ka'anapali Ocean resort Villas- Honokowai, Hawaii

MGM Grand Hotel And Casino- Las Vegas, Nevada

Montage- Laguna Beach, California

Caribe Royale- Orlando, Florida

Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino- Las Vegas, Nevada

Most Romantic:

Madrona Manor- Healdsburg, California

Sanibel Sunset Beach Resort- Sanibel, Florida

Saint Regis Aspen Resort- Aspen, Colorado

Hotel Maya- Long Beach, California

Diamond Head Beach Resort- Fort Myers Beach, Florida

Outrigger Reef On The Beach- Honolulu, Hawaii

The Hotel Of South Beach- Miami Beach, Florida

Omni La Mansion Del Rio- San Antonio, Texas

Holiday Inn Sanibel Island- Sanibel, Florida

Little Palm Island Resort & Spa- Little Torch Key, Florida

Best Overall Value:

Palace Station Hotel & Casino- Las Vegas, Nevada

El Cortez Hotel & Casino- Las Vegas, Nevada

Best Western Westminster Inn- Westminster, California

Marriott City Center- Salt Lake City, Utah

Disney's All-Star Music Resort- Orlando, Florida

Club Quarters- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Murray Hill East Hotel- New York, New York

Anabella Hotel- Anaheim, California

Winterhaven Hotel- Winter Haven, Florida

Best Western Palm Garden Inn- Westminster, California

Great Views Award:

The Westin Maui Resort & Spa- Honokowai, Hawaii

Hyatt Regency On The Hudson- Jersey City, New Jersey

Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Arizona

Grand American Hotel- Salt Lake City, Utah

Royal Kona Resort- Kailua, Hawaii

Moana Surfrider Waikiki Beach- Honolulu, Hawaii

Mandarin Oriental- New York, New York

Pacific Terrace Hotel- San Diego, California

Mandarin Oriental- Miami, Florida

Park Shore Waikiki- Honolulu, Hawaii

Most Comfortable Beds:

Sofitel- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Orchard Hotel- San Francisco, California

Hotel Deluxe- Portland, Oregon

Beacon Hotel & Corporate Quarters- Washington, DC

MGM Grand Hotel and Casino- Las Vegas, Nevada

Aqau Palms & Spa- Waikiki, Hawaii

Renaissance Hotel- New York, New York

Millennium Biltmore Hotel- LA, California

The Westin Seattle- Seattle, Washington

The Westin Riverwalk- San Antonio, Texas

Best Bathroom Quality:

MGM Grand Hotel And Casino- Las Vegas, Nevada

70 Park Avenue Kimpton Hotel- New York, New York

St. Gregory Luxury Hotel And Suites- Rosslyn, Virginia

The Pod Hotel- New York, New York

Hotel Metro- New York, New York

Hotel Kabuki- San Francisco, California

Beacon Hotel & Corporate Quarters- Washington, DC

W Chicago Lakeshore- Chicago, Illinois

Millenium Biltmore Hotel- LA, California

JW Marriott Hotel- San Francisco, California

High Gym Quality Award:

New York Marriott Marquis- New York, New York

International House- New Orleans, Louisiana

Loews Philadelphia Hotel- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

MGM Grand Hotel And Casino- Las Vegas, Nevada

Hilton- San Francisco, California

The Farimont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa- Boyes Hot Springs, California

Guesthouse Wildwood- Florence, Kentucky

Mandarin Oriental- New York, New York

Grand Hotel- Minneapolis, Minnesota

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