Although the idea was good, the contest could have been designed rather better. Environmentalists criticized it, saying it was riddled with defects like hard-to-understand webpages, no mechanism to keep visitors from voting more than once, and the fact that water and electricity consumption was not averaged to hotel size. Despite its flaws, however, it is encouraging to see that the activity placed the idea of environmentalism in hotels center stage.
雖然票選活動立意甚佳，但因為設計不周，例如網頁不利於網友閱覽參賽旅館措施、缺乏灌票防止機制、用電用水量未以單位面積為基準等，被環保人士評為瑕疵一籮筐，但值得高興的是，已讓「環保旅館」的概念浮出檯面。