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So you’re going to the Hills District of Sydney. You’ve selected this location and now you have to choose a hotel. Ten years ago, you ‘d have most likely visited your local travel representative and trusted the in person advice you were provided by the so-called ‘experts’. The 21st Century way to pick and book your hotel is of course on the Internet, by using travel sites.
But how do you sift through the incredible options on offer? And more notably, do you truly rely on the photographs and descriptions of the hotels that they have granted themselves with the motivation of getting reservations?
Traveler reviews can be helpful, but you need to exercise caution. They are often prejudiced, sometimes out of date, and might not serve your interests at all. How do you know that the functions that are essential to the reviewer are essential to you? Then there’s the problem of the reviewer’s motivation. 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 pleased visitors who lavish praise beyond belief.
You’ll not be surprised to discover that hotels sometimes publish 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 truly crucial to you when selecting a hotel. You should then choose an online hotel directory site that provides current, independent, objective information that really matters.

Here are a few of the key realities you should keep in mind: 

1. Location: if it matters that your hotel is, for example, close to the amusement park, or convenient for the airport, then location is vital. Any decent directory site should offer a location map of the hotel and its surroundings. There should be distance charts to the airport provided along with some form of an interactive map.

2. Style: it is important to choose a hotel that makes you feel comfortable – modern or traditional furnishings, local design or international, official or relaxed. The perfect hotel directory site should let you know of the choices readily available.

3. Restaurants, Cafes, and Bars: local color is excellent 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 wise or informal. 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 crucial. 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 smoking or non-smoking spaces, etc

. These things truly do matter and any decent hotel directory site should provide you this sort of advice on bedrooms – not just the variety of spaces which is the usual alternative!

5. Children’s’ Facilities: more crucial to the household 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. One thing worth searching for is whether the hotel offers a babysitter service. For the business tourist wanting to escape children, this is of course really pertinent too – perhaps a hotel that is not child-friendly would be something better!

6. Leisure Facilities: the site should offer an in-depth analysis of leisure services within the hotel – spa, pool, health club, 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 absolutely important to some.

Finally and most importantly, the quality hotel directory site evaluation team should have visited the hotel in question on a regular basis, 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 truly in a strong position to discuss the hotel.
with the above information, 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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