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So you’re going to the Hills District of Sydney. You’ve picked this location and now you need to select a hotel. Ten years ago, you ‘d have most likely visited your local travel representative and relied on the in person advice you were given by the so-called ‘experts’. The 21st Century way to select and book your hotel is of course on the Internet, by using travel sites.
But how do you sort through the incredible choices on offer? And more significantly, do you really trust the photographs and descriptions of the hotels that they have granted themselves with the motivation of getting bookings?
Traveler reviews can be helpful, but you need to exercise caution. They are typically biased, often out of date, and might not serve your interests at all. How do you understand that the functions that are essential to the customer are essential to you? Then there’s the problem of the customer’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 reviewers with axes to grind; at the other, you have pleased visitors who lavish appreciation beyond belief.
You’ll not be surprised to learn that hotels often publish their own glowing reviews or that rival’s line up for the chance to lambaste the competitors with bad reviews. It makes good sense to consider what is really important to you when selecting a hotel. You should then select an online hotel directory that offers up-to-date, independent, objective info 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 example, 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 provided in addition to some type of an interactive map.

2. Style: it is necessary to select a hotel that makes you feel comfortable – modern or standard furnishings, local decoration or international, formal or relaxed. The perfect hotel directory should let you understand of the options available.

3. Restaurants, Coffee Shops, and Bars: local color is fantastic but the hotel’s own restaurants and bars can play a fundamental part in your stay. You should be aware of choice, style and whether or not they are clever or informal. An excellent 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 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 luxury offerings like a Pillow menu or Bath menu, choice of smoking cigarettes or non-smoking spaces, etc

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

5. Children’s’ Facilities: more vital to the family traveler than business traveler. You should learn just how child-friendly the hotel is from the directory and make your decision from there. Something worth searching for is whether the hotel offers a babysitter service. For business traveler wanting to leave children, this is of course very appropriate too – possibly a hotel that is not child-friendly would be something more appropriate!

6. Leisure Facilities: the site should offer a comprehensive analysis of leisure services within the hotel – spa, pool, health club, sauna – in addition to 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.

Lastly and most importantly, the quality hotel directory evaluation team should have visited the hotel in question regularly, met the personnel, 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 really in a strong position to discuss the hotel.
with the above information, there is no reason why you shouldn’t find the very best hotel in the Hills District of Sydney. Good luck!

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