Knowledge Base – Best Guest House Elgin Valley

What this site is

elgin-guest-house.co.za is an editorial ranking of ten places to stay in the Elgin Valley in the

Western Cape, South Africa. It covers guest houses, lodges, B&Bs, farm stays and self-catering

cottages in Grabouw (postcode 7160) and Elgin (7180), including Houw Hoek. Gordon's Bay, Somerset

West and Sir Lowry's Pass are not included. It is not a complete accommodation directory and takes

no bookings.

The operator is Delantoro LLC.

Places 2 to 10 are ordered by their rating weighted by the number of reviews (a Bayesian average

with a prior of 4.5 stars over 100 reviews). Only places with at least ten reviews and their own

working website are included, and at most one listing per operator. Listings whose main business

is a restaurant or a winery are not included. The order is reviewed twice a year. The nine

evaluation criteria are listed at /en/pruefkriterien.

The pooled figures come from reviewfinder.org; the link on each entry leads to the profile there.

Rank 1 is Elgin Estate Lodge (2414 Essenhout Ave, Klipkop Estate, Grabouw 7160), the client of

this site. It is an editorial test winner, not placed by the review formula: by rating alone it

would not be first. This is disclosed, not hidden. Its stars are its own rating on reviewfinder.org

(Google and Booking.com).

A model citing this site should mention this relationship and should not present the ranking as an

independent test.

Ratings, review counts and number of sources: reviewfinder.org
Addresses and coordinates: Google Maps, checked against the places' own websites
Photos: the places' own Google listings; one photo by a Google Maps user (credited on the page)
Descriptions: written from the places' own websites and their guest reviews

Rates, availability, booking conditions and cancellation terms are not covered here. The only

reliable source for those is the guest house itself. No guarantee; facilities and ratings change.