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So you’re going to the city of Sydney. You’ve selected this location and now you have to select a hotel. 10 years back, you ‘d have most likely visited your local travel agent and relied on the face-to-face suggestions you were offered by the so-called ‘experts’.

The 21st Century way to pick and book your hotel is obviously on the Internet, by utilizing travel websites.

But how do you sort through the remarkable options available? And more notably, do you really rely on the photographs and descriptions of the hotels that they have granted themselves with the motivation of getting bookings?

Traveler reviews can be practical, but you need to exercise caution. They are typically prejudiced, often out of date, and might not serve your interests at all. How do you understand that the functions that are important to the customer are important to you? Then there’s the problem of the customer’s motivation. The more reviews you check out, the more you observe 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 delighted guests who lavish praise beyond belief.

You’ll not be surprised to discover that hotels often post their own radiant reviews or that competitor’s line up for the chance to lambaste the competition with bad reviews. It makes 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, unbiased information that truly matters.

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

1. Location

If it matters that your hotel is, for example, near to the amusement park, or convenient for the airport, then location is vital. Any good directory should offer a location map of the hotel and its surroundings. There should be distance charts to the airport provided as well as some type of an interactive map.

2. Style

It is necessary to select a hotel that makes you feel comfortable – contemporary or traditional furnishings, local decor or international, formal or relaxed. The ideal hotel directory should let you understand of the choices available.

3. Restaurants, Cafes, and Bars

Local colour 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 clever or informal. A great hotel report should tell you this, and particularly about breakfast facilities.

4. Bedroom Facilities

You should always carefully consider the kind 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 WI-FI or wired broadband connection), Complimentary facilities, views from the room and luxury offerings like a Pillow menu or Bath menu, choice of smoking or non-smoking spaces, and so on.

These things really do matter and any good hotel directory should give you this sort of suggestions on bedrooms – not just the number of spaces which is the typical choice!

5. Children’s’ Facilities

More vital to the family tourist than business tourist. You should learn 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 business tourist wanting to escape children, this is obviously very relevant 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, swimming pool, fitness center, sauna – as well as 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 inspection team should have gone to the hotel in question regularly, 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 blog about the hotel.

With the above details, there is no reason why you should not find the very best hotel in the city of Sydney. Best of luck!

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