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So you’re going to the Hills District of Sydney. You’ve picked this destination and now you need to select a hotel. Ten years ago, you ‘d have most likely visited your local travel representative and trusted the face-to-face suggestions 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 incredible options on offer? And more notably, do you truly trust the photos and descriptions of the hotels that they have awarded themselves with the motivation of getting reservations?
Traveler reviews can be handy, but you need to exercise care. They are typically prejudiced, in some cases out of date, and may not serve your interests at all. How do you understand that the features that are necessary to the reviewer are necessary 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 customers with axes to grind; at the other, you have pleased visitors who lavish appreciation beyond belief.
You’ll not be amazed to find out that hotels in some cases publish their own glowing reviews or that rival’s line up for the chance to lambaste the competitors with bad reviews. It makes sense to consider what is truly important to you when choosing a hotel. You should then select an online hotel directory that provides current, independent, objective information that truly matters.

Here are a few of the key realities 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 should offer a location map of the hotel and its environs. There should be distance charts to the airport offered along with some form of an interactive map.

2. Style: it is very important to select a hotel that makes you feel comfortable – modern or conventional furnishings, local decor or international, official or relaxed. The ideal hotel directory should let you understand of the options available.

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 or not they are clever or casual. 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 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 or non-smoking rooms, etc

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

5. Children’s’ Facilities: more crucial to the family traveler than the business traveler. You should discover just how child-friendly the hotel is from the directory and make your decision from there. Something worth looking for is whether the hotel offers a babysitter service. For the business traveler wishing to leave children, this is obviously extremely pertinent too – perhaps 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, swimming pool, fitness center, sauna – along with 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 again this does not apply to every visitor, it is definitely essential to some.

Lastly and most importantly, the quality hotel directory inspection 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 truly in a strong position to discuss the hotel.
with the above info, there is no reason why you shouldn’t find the best hotel in the Hills District of Sydney. Best of luck!

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