As we move further into our analysis we wanted to understand what does and does not sell in accommodations at a very granular level.We were trying to look into what facilities guests are willing to pay for and what are being rated more frequently.
We are taking frequency of rating (reviews per month) because our data shows that those who have been rated usually have very good ratings - indicating that people are more likely to leave a review when extremely satisfied.
For the graph below, we have created a new variable called bath_ratio which is the ratio of the number of people accommodated in the room to the number of bathrooms. This indicates how many people will have to share a bathroom during the stay.
Figure 1: How sharing of bathrooms impacts reviews and price
Here are a few things that are interesting from this graph:
Brussels has by far the highest number of large circles that indicate a common bathroom per floor, maybe in a Hostel scenario
As the number of reviews increases the size of the circle decreases, so people do appreciate a private bathroom
Only in Brussels the high reviewed listings have a larger circle - this could be because there are some very popular youth hostels in Brussels. But they are more impressed by the other facilities