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So you’re going to the Hills District of Sydney. You’ve selected this destination and now you need to select a hotel. 10 years back, you ‘d have probably visited your local travel agent and relied on the face-to-face guidance you were offered by the so-called ‘experts’. The 21st Century way to select and book your hotel is of course on the Internet, by using travel websites.
But how do you sift through the incredible options on offer? And more notably, do you really trust the photos and descriptions of the hotels that they have awarded themselves with the inspiration of getting reservations?
Traveler reviews can be handy, but you need to exercise care. They are typically biased, often out of date, and might not serve your interests at all. How do you know that the functions that are very important to the reviewer are very important to you? Then there’s the issue of the reviewer’s inspiration. The more reviews you read, 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 thrilled guests who lavish praise beyond belief.
You’ll not be amazed to discover that hotels often 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 essential to you when choosing a hotel. You should then select an online hotel directory that gives current, independent, unbiased information that really matters.

Here are a few of the key facts you should bear in mind: 

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 decent directory should offer a location map of the hotel and its environs. There should be distance charts to the airport offered along with some type of an interactive map.

2. Style: it is very important to select a hotel that makes you feel comfortable – modern or traditional furnishings, local design or international, formal or relaxed. The perfect hotel directory should let you know of the alternatives offered.

3. Restaurants, Coffee Shops, and Bars: local color is fantastic but the hotel’s own restaurants and bars can play a vital part in your stay. You should be aware of choice, style and whether they are clever or informal. An excellent 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 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 facilities, views from the room and high-end offerings like a Pillow menu or Bath menu, choice of smoking or non-smoking spaces, etc

. These things really do matter and any decent 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 crucial to the household tourist than business tourist. You should find out 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 baby sitter service. For business tourist wanting to escape children, this is of course very pertinent too – maybe a hotel that is not child-friendly would be something better!

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

Finally and most notably, 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 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. All the best!

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