Everything about Star Classification totally explained
Stars are often used as symbols for
classification purposes. They are used by reviewers for ranking things such as movies, TV shows, restaurants, and hotels. For example, a set of one to five stars is commonly employed to categorize
hotels.
Movie, TV, theatre, and music classification
Among reviewers of movies, TV shows, theatre, and music, the star system is the most popular classification system. One star generally indicates the worst rating though some reviewers use "No-stars" or "Bomb" to indicate the lowest rating possible. On the other end four or five stars represents the highest rating possible. Some reviewers also allow for increments of ½-stars such as 1½ stars or 3½ stars for example.
Some reviewers don't use the star classification system, instead employing methods such as the
letter grade system used by
Entertainment Weekly magazine (for example D, C+, A-, etc.). Some reviews don't employ any sort of definite rating system, instead leaving the opinion to be expressed by the review itself. Movie reviewers
Gene Siskel and
Roger Ebert employed a thumbs up/thumbs down system on their television show
Siskel & Ebert. They would give a thumbs up to films they liked and a thumbs down to film they disliked. In order to provide nuance to their ratings they might add adjectives to a rating such as "A big thumbs up/down" for a film the really liked or disliked or a "minor thumbs up/down" for a film they just barely liked or disliked. Another alternative classification system used by movie, TV, and theatre reviewers in
San Francisco Chronicle involves symbols representing of a movie, TV, or theatre viewer in different states of enjoyment of the presentation. In the highest rating, the character is shown standing on his seat clapping. The next highest features a man sitting in his seat clapping. This is followed by a man just sitting looking attentively at the screen, followed by a man asleep in his seat. At the lowest end is an icon of an empty seat indicating the man has walked out of the presentation.
Restaurant ratings
Restaurant guides and reviewer often use stars to rate restaurants. This was introduced by the
Michelin Red Guide. The Michelin system reserves stars for exceptional restaurants, and gives up to three; the vast majority of recommended restaurants have no star at all. Other guides now use up to four or five stars, with one star being the lowest rating. The stars are sometimes replaced by symbols such as a fork or spoon. Some guides use separate scales for food, service, ambience, and even noise level.
The Michelin system remains the most famous star system. A single star denotes "a very good restaurant in its category", two stars "excellent cooking, worth a detour", and three stars, "exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey".
Michelin stars are awarded only for the quality of food and wine; the luxury level of the restaurant is rated separately, using a scale of one ("quite comfortable") to five ("luxury in the traditional style") crossed fork and spoon symbols.
Hotel ratings
The star classification system is a common one for rating hotels. Higher star ratings indicate more luxury.
The
AAA and their affiliated bodies use
diamonds instead of stars to express hotel and restaurant ratings levels.
Hotels are independently assessed in traditional systems and rest heavily on the facilities provided. Some consider this disadvantageous to smaller hotels whose quality of accommodation could fall into one class but the lack of an item such as an
elevator would prevent it from reaching a higher categorization.
Standards of hotel classification
In some countries, there's an official body with
standard criteria for classifying hotels, but in many others there's none. There have been attempts at unifying the classification system so that it becomes an internationally recognized and reliable standard but large differences exist in the quality of the accommodation and the food within one category of hotel, sometimes even in the same country.
Six star hotels
Some members of the
hospitality industry have claimed a six star rating for their operation. One example is the
Crown Macau, on
Taipa Island in the
Chinese territory of
Macau. Another is the
St. Regis Shanghai Hotel in
China. The
Palazzo Versace on the
Gold Coast in
Australia is described by
Australian Traveller magazine as meriting "six star" rating though level of rating isn't used in
Australia.
Seven star hotels
Although the
Burj Al Arab characterizes itself as the world's only "7-Star Hotel", several "7-Star" hotels are under construction. These include the Laucala Island in Fiji,
Morgan Plaza to be finished in
Beijing (China) in March 2008, the
Flower of the East under construction in
Kish,
Iran,
The Centaurus Complex under construction in
Islamabad,
Pakistan and the Pentominium, a complex planned for
Metro Manila and The Royalties Castle for
Davao City in the
Philippines.
Controversy
The expansion beyond the traditional "five star" rating has led to commentators questioning if it's simply more puffery or sales hype.
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