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So you’re going to the Hills District of Sydney. You’ve selected this destination and now you need to choose a hotel. Ten years back, you ‘d have probably visited your local travel representative and relied on the face-to-face advice you were offered by the so-called ‘experts’. The 21st Century way to choose and book your hotel is obviously on the Internet, by utilizing travel websites.
But how do you sift through the incredible options available? And more notably, do you truly trust the pictures and descriptions of the hotels that they have granted themselves with the motivation of getting bookings?
Traveler reviews can be handy, but you need to exercise caution. They are frequently biased, in some cases out of date, and might not serve your interests at all. How do you understand that the features 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 viewpoint. On one end, you have upset customers with axes to grind; at the other, you have thrilled guests who lavish appreciation beyond belief.
You’ll not be shocked to discover that hotels in some cases post their own radiant reviews or that rival’s line up for the chance to lambaste the competition with bad reviews. It makes good sense to consider what is truly important to you when selecting a hotel. You should then choose an online hotel directory that gives updated, independent, neutral information that really matters.

Here are some of the key realities you should remember: 

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

2. Style: it is essential to choose a hotel that makes you feel comfortable – modern or traditional furnishings, local design or international, official or relaxed. The perfect hotel directory should let you understand of the options 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 they are wise 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 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 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 truly do matter and any decent hotel directory should give you this sort of advice on bedrooms – not just the number of spaces which is the usual alternative!

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 and make your decision from there. One thing worth looking for is whether the hotel offers a babysitter service. For the business tourist wanting to leave children, this is obviously extremely relevant too – perhaps a hotel that is not child-friendly would be something more appropriate!

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 close by 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.

Finally and most importantly, 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 guest can and it is only then that they are truly in a strong position to write about the hotel.
with the above info, there is no reason why you shouldn’t find the best hotel in the Hills District of Sydney. All the best!

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