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So you’re going to the Hills District of Sydney. You’ve chosen this destination and now you have to pick a hotel. 10 years ago, you ‘d have most likely visited your local travel agent and relied on the in person suggestions you were offered by the so-called ‘experts’. The 21st Century way to choose and book your hotel is of course on the Internet, by utilizing travel sites.
But how do you sift through the remarkable choices on offer? And more notably, do you really rely on the photos and descriptions of the hotels that they have awarded themselves with the inspiration of getting bookings?
Traveler reviews can be helpful, but you need to exercise care. They are frequently prejudiced, sometimes out of date, and may not serve your interests at all.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 inspiration. The more reviews you read, the more you see how they tend to cluster at the extremes of opinion. On one end, you have angry customers with axes to grind; at the other, you have thrilled visitors who lavish praise beyond belief.
You’ll not be shocked to discover that hotels sometimes post their own glowing reviews or that competitor’s line up for the chance to lambaste the competition with bad reviews. It makes good sense to consider what is really important to you when selecting a hotel. You should then pick an online hotel directory that gives current, independent, neutral info that really matters.

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

1. Location: if it matters that your hotel is, for instance, near the amusement park, or convenient for the airport, then location is paramount. 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 kind of an interactive map.

2. Style: it is necessary to pick a hotel that makes you feel comfortable – modern or conventional furnishings, local decoration or international, formal or relaxed. The perfect hotel directory should let you know of the choices offered.

3. Restaurants, Cafes, and Bars: local color is fantastic but the hotel’s own restaurants and bars can play a fundamental 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 especially about breakfast facilities.

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

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

5. Children’s’ Facilities: more vital 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. Something worth searching for is whether the hotel offers a baby sitter service. For the business tourist wanting to leave children, this is of course extremely relevant too – maybe a hotel that is not child-friendly would be something better suited!

6. Leisure Facilities: the site should offer a detailed analysis of leisure services within the hotel – spa, pool, fitness center, 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 once again this does not apply to every visitor, it is absolutely essential to some.

Finally and most importantly, the quality hotel directory evaluation team should have visited the hotel in question on a regular basis, met the staff, slept in a bedroom and tasted the food. They should experience the hotel as only a hotel visitor can and it is only then that they are really in a strong position to write about 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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