r/hotels rules, stats, and what to post

What r/hotels Is For

The current public description welcomes questions, general information, news, advice, and experiences about hotels and the wider industry. The older public sidebar describes an equally broad hotel focus, from detailed reviews to recurring maintenance issues.

This is not permission to promote a property or booking service. The public description warns that advertising, self-promotion, and attempts to sell points or bookings result in a ban, and the formal rules define those restrictions in more detail.

Rules That Matter Before Posting

r/hotels publishes six formal rules. They prohibit advertising and self-promotion, member-to-member point and reservation transactions, context-free cross-posts, academic research requests, and non-English posts. Moderators also reserve discretion to remove content that does not fit, adds nothing productive, or is overly hostile.

The transaction rule covers hotel loyalty points, award nights, and reservations. The research rule covers survey responses, study participation, and thesis or dissertation data collection. Neither rule publishes an exception.

What To Post

Source-backed fits include:

• A clear question about a hotel, booking, guest experience, or hotel operation.
• General hotel information or industry news that can support a useful discussion.
• A detailed experience or review that follows the community's linked review guidance.
• A cross-post accompanied by enough original written context for the community.

As a Rankhog recommendation, keep the useful information in the post itself and disclose the relevant hotel or booking context without linking to a commercial interest.

What To Avoid

Do not advertise a hotel, rental property, booking website, referral link, social account, or other commercial interest. Do not solicit the purchase, sale, or transfer of loyalty points, award nights, or reservations.

Avoid blanket cross-posts, surveys, academic research recruitment, non-English posts, and hostile or unproductive content. Moderator discretion is an explicit formal rule, not an implied exception to the other five.

Rankhog Notes

r/askhotels is structured around questions for hotel employees and publishes additional restrictions. r/housekeeping is a better comparison for cleaning and room-turnover discussions. r/vrbohosts is specifically for Vrbo-hosting advice. Recheck the live rules before publishing because these communities serve different audiences.