Guide to Auckland reviews are useful, interesting, and funny because people like you take the time to share your opinions on local events, businesses and services.
The best reviews are based on your personal experience, and offer helpful suggestions, perhaps even an insider tip or two. Useful reviews can make mention of the that make the business special or the type of person who might also like this business.
What should I review?
Any event, business, service or place listed on the Guide to Auckland is reviewable. Restaurants, shops, bars, salons, parks, museums, galleries etc. They’re all ready, willing and able to be reviewed by you.
Am I able to review a business I'm affiliated to?
In order to keep the reviews on Guide to Auckland relevant and honest, we’d rather you not review your own business or a business at which you have been employed at in the past or are currently employed at.
What if I had a bad experience? Am I able to write about my negative experience?
Of course! We want to hear all about your experiences, both good and bad. Please be sure to include all the pertinent facts surrounding your experience.
Does Guide to Auckland ever remove reviews?
Rarely. But in some cases a member of the Guide to Auckland team will remove a review (and will usually alert the writer by email to let them know) if it doesn't follow these guidelines:
- Review which appear to have a conflicts of interest. Reviews should be and objective and unbiased. If there's any conflict, please don't review. For example, owners shouldn't positively review their own businesses or negatively review their competitors, and users shouldn't comment on their existing or past employers.
- Overheard experiences and rumour. For example, you cannot give a cafe a bad review because your colleague complained about her sandwich. Your reviews must be your own!
- Personal aggression. Strong language is ok, but there's no need for rudeness, hate speech and other displays of bigotry. Your friends may know you’re being funny but the many users of the Guide the Auckland may not.
- Relevancy. Reviews aren't the place for rants about a business's employment practices, political views, or other issues that don't speak to the main point of the business itself.
- Lifting & plagiarism. Use your own words to tell us about your experience with a local business, but don't lift something from another website.
- Blank reviews. A review without text is of no use to anyone. Don't be bashful, and write!