I Might Hate the Internet

Trying to find a nice place to stay for our upcoming anniversary weekend so I'm clicking around Expedia, Google and TripAdvisor.  I think I find a good place...and then I start reading reviews.  One person's review on one website says it's nice and the staff was accommodating, and a review on another website says to only stay there if you want to get murdered.  So I keep looking and find an equal amount of contradiction on just about every hotel I've come across.  Ugh!