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So you’re going to the Hills District of Sydney. You’ve chosen this destination and now you have to select a hotel. 10 years ago, you ‘d have probably visited your local travel agent and relied on the face-to-face guidance you were provided by the so-called ‘experts’. The 21st Century way to pick and book your hotel is of course on the Internet, by using travel sites.
But how do you sift through the fantastic choices on offer? And more importantly, do you really rely on the photos and descriptions of the hotels that they have granted themselves with the motivation of getting reservations?
Traveler reviews can be useful, but you need to exercise care. They are often biased, sometimes out of date, and might not serve your interests at all. How do you know that the functions that are important to the reviewer are important to you? Then there’s the problem of the reviewer’s motivation. The more reviews you check out, the more you discover how they tend to cluster at the extremes of viewpoint. On one end, you have angry reviewers with axes to grind; at the other, you have happy visitors who lavish appreciation beyond belief.
You’ll not be amazed to discover that hotels sometimes post their own radiant reviews or that competitor’s line up for the chance to lambaste the competitors with bad reviews. It makes sense to consider what is really essential to you when selecting a hotel. You should then select an online hotel directory that provides updated, independent, objective info that truly matters.

Here are a few of the key realities you should remember: 

1. Location: if it matters that your hotel is, for instance, close 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 provided in addition to some kind of an interactive map.

2. Style: it is necessary to select a hotel that makes you feel comfortable – modern or traditional furnishings, local decor or international, official or relaxed. The perfect hotel directory should let you know of the choices readily available.

3. Restaurants, Cafes, and Bars: local color is terrific 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 they are smart or informal. A great hotel report should tell you this, and particularly about breakfast facilities.

4. Bedroom Facilities: you should always carefully consider the kind of facilities you need from your bedroom and find a hotel that has those you consider essential. 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 cigarette smoking or non-smoking spaces, and so on

. These things really do matter and any good hotel directory should give you this sort of guidance on bed rooms – not just the variety of spaces which is the usual alternative!

5. Children’s’ Facilities: more important to the household traveler than business traveler. 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 baby sitter service. For business traveler wanting to leave children, this is of course extremely pertinent too – perhaps a hotel that is not child-friendly would be something better!

6. Leisure Facilities: the site should offer an in-depth analysis of leisure services within the hotel – spa, pool, fitness center, sauna – in addition to details of any other facilities nearby such as golf courses.

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

Finally and most notably, the quality hotel directory inspection team should have visited the hotel in question regularly, met the staff, 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 details, there is no reason why you shouldn’t find the very best hotel in the Hills District of Sydney. Good luck!

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