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So you’re going to the Hills District of Sydney. You’ve picked this location and now you need to select a hotel. Ten years ago, you ‘d have most likely visited your local travel representative and relied on the in person guidance you were provided by the so-called ‘experts’. The 21st Century way to select and book your hotel is of course on the Internet, by utilizing travel websites.
But how do you sort through the amazing choices on offer? And more importantly, do you really rely on the photographs and descriptions of the hotels that they have granted themselves with the motivation of getting reservations?
Traveler reviews can be handy, but you need to exercise care. They are typically prejudiced, sometimes out of date, and might not serve your interests at all. How do you know that the features 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 see 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 delighted guests who lavish praise beyond belief.
You’ll not be surprised to discover that hotels sometimes post their own radiant reviews or that rival’s line up for the chance to lambaste the competition with bad reviews. It makes sense to consider what is really important to you when choosing a hotel. You should then select an online hotel directory site that gives up-to-date, independent, neutral information that really matters.

Here are some of the key facts you should remember: 

1. Location: if it matters that your hotel is, for instance, near to the theme park, or convenient for the airport, then location is paramount. Any good directory site 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 important to select a hotel that makes you feel comfortable – contemporary or conventional furnishings, local design or international, formal or relaxed. The perfect hotel directory site should let you know of the alternatives offered.

3. Restaurants, Cafes, and Bars: local color is excellent 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 wise or casual. A great hotel report should tell you this, and especially about breakfast facilities.

4. Bedroom Facilities: you should always carefully 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 features, views from the room and luxury offerings like a Pillow menu or Bath menu, choice of smoking or non-smoking rooms, etc

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

5. Children’s’ Facilities: more vital to the household traveler than business traveler. You should learn just how child-friendly the hotel is from the directory site and make your decision from there. Something worth searching for is whether the hotel offers a babysitter service. For business traveler wishing to escape children, this is of course really appropriate too – maybe a hotel that is not child-friendly would be something better suited!

6. Leisure Facilities: the site should offer an in-depth analysis of leisure services within the hotel – spa, swimming pool, gym, sauna – along with details of any other facilities nearby 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 vital to some.

Finally and most importantly, the quality hotel directory site assessment team should have gone to 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 discuss the hotel.
with the above details, there is no reason why you shouldn’t find the best hotel in the Hills District of Sydney. Good luck!

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