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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. 10 years ago, you ‘d have most likely visited your local travel agent and trusted the in person recommendations you were given by the so-called ‘experts’. The 21st Century way to pick 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 importantly, do you really trust the photos and descriptions of the hotels that they have granted themselves with the motivation of getting reservations?
Traveler reviews can be useful, but you need to exercise caution. They are often biased, sometimes out of date, and might not serve your interests at all. How do you know that the functions that are important to the reviewer are important to you? Then there’s the problem of the reviewer’s motivation. The more reviews you read, the more you notice 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 thrilled guests who lavish praise beyond belief.
You’ll not be shocked to find out that hotels sometimes post their own radiant 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 really essential to you when selecting a hotel. You should then choose an online hotel directory site that offers updated, independent, neutral information that truly matters.

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

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

2. Style: it is essential to choose a hotel that makes you feel comfortable – contemporary or conventional furnishings, local decor or international, official or relaxed. The ideal hotel directory site should let you know of the alternatives readily available.

3. Restaurants, Coffee Shops, and Bars: local color is great 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 or not they are smart or casual. An excellent hotel report should tell you this, and particularly 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 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 high-end offerings like a Pillow menu or Bath menu, choice of smoking cigarettes or non-smoking rooms, etc

. These things really do matter and any decent hotel directory site should give you this sort of recommendations on bed rooms – not just the variety of rooms which is the usual choice!

5. Children’s’ Facilities: more important to the family tourist than business tourist. 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 baby sitter service. For business tourist wishing to leave children, this is of course extremely appropriate too – possibly 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, 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 once 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 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 really in a strong position to discuss the hotel.
with the above details, there is no reason why you should not find the very best hotel in the Hills District of Sydney. Good luck!

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