24/08/2026
💪Averaging Excellence
The difference between 9.7 and 9.8 seems small, because it is. But when these numbers represent guests' rating of their stay at Monte-Bougainvillea, the difference is enormous.
In our very first year of operation in 2018 we earned 9.4 from guests having booked their stay using Booking,com. In the following years we climbed up to 9.8 and held it a while. Then we lost a point and we've been at 9.7 for the past few years.
These tiny points seem meaningless, because they are. The difference between 9.7 and 9.8 is not something anyone could readily notice or qualify. It is the aggregation of multiple experiences distilled into an average. To average 9.7 or 9.8 out of 10 implies a lot of 10s. It mathematically requires a lot more 10s than 9s.
In fact we've been getting 8 or 9 10s in a row, then a 9. And our rating stayed at 9.7.
This week we, again, reached a 9th 10 in a row, but this time our rating moved up to 9.8!
Yesterday we got a new 10. Our very 1st 10th 10 in a row!!
So now we can qualify that little 0.1 difference between 9.7 and 9.8 as being rated 10 by guest after guest after guest after guest. Consistently, at least 9 times in a row, for rows and rows in a row. All the while a single low score will negatively impact the average immediately. That is no small effort and the result is far from meaningless: it means a lot of people notice our efforts.
That little 0.1 is enormous to us ❤
Thank you!!!!!!!
S&jc 🌞
🦩Monte-Bougainvillea
