Google Maps
Complaint signal is 6.5%.
Praise signal is 22.8%.
Baseline signal is 6.4%.
Delta vs baseline is 0.1 points.
Topic
What hotel reviews say about cleanliness in California, United States
Cleanliness appears in 5.4% of analyzed complaint excerpts in this market.
Tripadvisor is below the baseline by 2.3 percentage points.
- Confidence
- 37,043
- Reviews analyzed
- Last update
- September 16, 2026
- 2 platforms in the sample
At a glance
Share of complaint snippets where this topic appears by platform.
This metric tracks topic presence in complaint snippets, not positive versus negative sentiment split.
Balance is praise minus complaint for this topic on the same platform.
Google Maps
Signal balance: +16.3pp
Complaint signal
6.5%
Praise signal
22.8%
Tripadvisor
Signal balance: +27.1pp
Complaint signal
4.4%
Praise signal
31.5%
How this market compares
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Largest gap:
Tripadvisor is below baseline by 2.3 points.
Google Maps
Country baseline
6.4%
Tripadvisor
Country baseline
6.8%
Platform-by-platform signal
Compare complaint and praise mentions by source, including the available baseline.
Tripadvisor
Complaint signal is 4.4%.
Praise signal is 31.5%.
Baseline signal is 6.8%.
Delta vs baseline is -2.3 points.
Largest difference from baseline
This is the largest measured difference between the current market and its available baseline.
Tripadvisor
2.3pp belowCurrent signal is below baseline by 2.3 points (current 4.4%, baseline 6.8%).
Google Maps
0.1pp aboveCurrent signal is above baseline by 0.1 points (current 6.5%, baseline 6.4%).
What reviewers keep mentioning
These themes appear most often in the analyzed excerpts for this market.
Google Maps
Top complaints
Dirty.
Google Maps
Top complaints
11/6/25 They did finally respond to my request for more washcloths and said my room would be cleaned and they would be delivered.
Google Maps
Top praises
Clean.
Google Maps
Top praises
Room was clean.
Google Maps
Top praises
Very clean.
Tripadvisor
Top complaints
-The fridge had been turned up to maximum by the cleaning team, it froze all our food on the highest shelf, including the chicken fillets bought that same day, we were forced to cook everything (1.5 kilos of chicken), our radishes, bananas, yogurts were thrown away because they were also frozen.
Tripadvisor
Top complaints
Dirty floors.
Tripadvisor
Top complaints
$1500 for 2 nights was very steep anyway but even more so when the facilities are as unclean and unsafe as they are!
Tripadvisor
Top praises
Clean.
Tripadvisor
Top praises
Very clean.
Tripadvisor
Top praises
The room was clean.
Representative review quotes
These excerpts show the review language behind the measured signal.
Google Maps
Complaint quote
We have stayed for 4 nights, not a single day have they cleaned the room, not even after complaining every day… a disaster.
Review rating: 2.0
Google Maps
Praise quote
Very well run CLEAN and hip near great DTLA stuff
Review rating: 5.0
Tripadvisor
Complaint quote
Dirty windows, stains on bedding, room doesn’t cool, bath tubs doesn’t drain, etc.
Review rating: 2.0
Tripadvisor
Praise quote
Room was wonderful and clean and perfect service !!
Review rating: 5.0
What the signal means
Coverage
396 insight listings mention Cleanliness in this scope.
Signal strength
Complaint signal is 5.4% across available platforms.
Praise signal is 27.1% across available platforms.
Next step
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Use the Cleanliness signal to decide where to look, then check it against recent feedback from your own Hotels.
Evidence behind this topic
- Cleanliness groups review language such as clean, cleanliness, dirty, hygiene, pests, and sanitary, so the signal stays tied to concrete guest wording rather than a generic score.
- California, United States, Hotels uses 37043 analyzed reviews across 2 platforms, 3 locality records, and 396 supporting insight listings for Cleanliness.
- Google Maps has the strongest complaint signal for Cleanliness at 6.5%, compared with a measured average of 5.4% across platforms.
- Tripadvisor has the strongest praise signal for Cleanliness at 31.5%, compared with a measured average of 27.1% across platforms.
How reliable is this signal?
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Reviews analyzed
37,043
Collected reviews: 1,645,798 · Analysis coverage: 2.3%
Platforms covered
2
Last update
August 09, 2026
Reports behind this finding
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