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So you’re going to the Hills District of Sydney. You’ve picked this destination and now you need to pick a hotel. Ten years ago, you ‘d have probably visited your local travel agent and trusted the face-to-face guidance you were given by the so-called ‘experts’. The 21st Century way to choose and book your hotel is obviously on the Internet, by using travel sites.
But how do you sort through the incredible options available? And more significantly, do you really rely on the photos and descriptions of the hotels that they have granted themselves with the motivation of getting bookings?
Traveler reviews can be useful, but you need to exercise care. They are often biased, sometimes out of date, and may not serve your interests at all. How do you understand that the functions that are very important to the reviewer are very important to you? Then there’s the problem of the reviewer’s motivation. The more reviews you check out, the more you notice how they tend to cluster at the extremes of opinion. On one end, you have upset reviewers with axes to grind; at the other, you have thrilled guests who lavish appreciation beyond belief.
You’ll not be surprised to learn that hotels sometimes post their own glowing reviews or that rival’s line up for the chance to lambaste the competitors with bad reviews. It makes good sense to consider what is really crucial to you when picking a hotel. You should then pick an online hotel directory that provides current, independent, neutral info that really matters.

Here are a few of the key facts you should keep in mind: 

1. Location: if it matters that your hotel is, for example, near to the theme park, or convenient for the airport, then location is critical. Any good directory should offer a location map of the hotel and its environs. There should be distance charts to the airport offered along with some type of an interactive map.

2. Style: it is very important to pick a hotel that makes you feel comfortable – contemporary or conventional furnishings, local decoration or international, formal or relaxed. The perfect hotel directory should let you understand of the options readily available.

3. Restaurants, Cafes, and Bars: local color is fantastic but the hotel’s own restaurants and bars can play an important part in your stay. You should be aware of choice, style and whether or not they are clever or informal. A great hotel report should tell you this, and especially about breakfast facilities.

4. Bedroom Facilities: you should constantly carefully consider the type of facilities you need from your bedroom and find a hotel that has those you consider crucial. The hotel directory should elaborate on matters such as bed size, Internet Access (its cost, whether there is WIFI or wired broadband connection), Complimentary features, views from the room and high-end offerings like a Pillow menu or Bath menu, choice of smoking cigarettes or non-smoking rooms, etc

. These things really do matter and any good hotel directory should offer you this sort of guidance on bedrooms – not just the number of rooms which is the usual choice!

5. Children’s’ Facilities: more important to the family tourist than the business tourist. You should discover just how child-friendly the hotel is from the directory and make your decision from there. One thing worth looking for is whether the hotel offers a babysitter service. For the business tourist wishing to escape children, this is obviously really pertinent too – maybe a hotel that is not child-friendly would be something more appropriate!

6. Leisure Facilities: the site should offer a comprehensive analysis of leisure services within the hotel – spa, swimming pool, health club, sauna – along with details of any other facilities close by such as golf courses.

7. Special Needs: the hotel directory site should recommend the visitor of each hotel’s special needs services and accessibility policy. Whilst again this does not apply to every visitor, it is definitely crucial to some.

Finally and most importantly, the quality hotel directory evaluation team should have checked out the hotel in question regularly, met the personnel, slept in a bedroom and tasted the food. They should experience the hotel as only a hotel guest can and it is only then that they are really in a strong position to discuss the hotel.
with the above info, there is no reason why you should not find the very best hotel in the Hills District of Sydney. Best of luck!

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