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So you’re going to the Hills District of Sydney. You’ve chosen this destination and now you need to pick a hotel. Ten years ago, you ‘d have most likely visited your local travel agent and relied on the in person recommendations you were given by the so-called ‘experts’. The 21st Century way to select and book your hotel is obviously on the Internet, by using travel sites.
But how do you sort through the amazing options on offer? And more notably, do you really rely on the photographs and descriptions of the hotels that they have awarded themselves with the motivation of getting reservations?
Traveler reviews can be valuable, but you need to exercise caution. They are often biased, sometimes out of date, and may not serve your interests at all. How do you know that the functions that are necessary to the customer are necessary to you? Then there’s the problem of the customer’s motivation. The more reviews you check out, the more you see 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 happy visitors who lavish praise beyond belief.
You’ll not be amazed to discover that hotels sometimes publish their own radiant reviews or that rival’s line up for the chance to lambaste the competitors with bad reviews. It makes sense to consider what is really important to you when picking a hotel. You should then pick an online hotel directory site that offers updated, independent, objective info that really matters.

Here are some of the key facts you should remember: 

1. Location: if it matters that your hotel is, for example, near to the theme park, or convenient for the airport, then location is vital. Any good directory site should offer a location map of the hotel and its surroundings. There should be distance charts to the airport provided as well as some type of an interactive map.

2. Style: it is very important to pick a hotel that makes you feel comfy – contemporary or standard furnishings, local decor or international, formal or relaxed. The perfect hotel directory site should let you know of the choices readily available.

3. Restaurants, Coffee Shops, and Bars: local color is great 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 smart or informal. A good hotel report should tell you this, and particularly about breakfast facilities.

4. Bedroom Facilities: you should constantly thoroughly consider the type of facilities you need from your bedroom and find a hotel that has those you consider important. The hotel directory site 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 luxury offerings like a Pillow menu or Bath menu, choice of cigarette smoking or non-smoking rooms, and so on

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

5. Children’s’ Facilities: more important to the family tourist than the business tourist. You should find out just how child-friendly the hotel is from the directory site and make your decision from there. Something worth looking for is whether the hotel offers a babysitter service. For the business tourist wishing to leave children, this is obviously really pertinent too – perhaps a hotel that is not child-friendly would be something better suited!

6. Leisure Facilities: the site should offer a comprehensive analysis of leisure services within the hotel – spa, swimming pool, health club, sauna – as well as 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 absolutely essential to some.

Lastly and most importantly, the quality hotel directory site inspection team should have visited 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 visitor 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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