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So you’re going to the Hills District of Sydney. You’ve picked this location and now you need to pick a hotel. 10 years back, you ‘d have most likely visited your local travel representative and trusted the in person guidance you were given by the so-called ‘experts’. The 21st Century way to choose and book your hotel is of course on the Internet, by utilizing travel websites.
But how do you sort through the amazing choices available? And more importantly, do you really rely on the photos and descriptions of the hotels that they have granted themselves with the inspiration of getting reservations?
Traveler reviews can be practical, but you need to exercise caution. They are frequently biased, sometimes out of date, and might not serve your interests at all. How do you know that the features that are very important to the reviewer are very important to you? Then there’s the problem of the reviewer’s inspiration. The more reviews you check out, the more you observe how they tend to cluster at the extremes of opinion. On one end, you have upset customers with axes to grind; at the other, you have pleased guests who lavish praise beyond belief.
You’ll not be shocked to find out that hotels sometimes publish their own radiant reviews or that competitor’s line up for the chance to lambaste the competitors with bad reviews. It makes sense to consider what is really essential to you when selecting a hotel. You should then pick an online hotel directory that gives up-to-date, independent, impartial information that truly matters.

Here are a few of the key realities you should bear 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 should offer a location map of the hotel and its surroundings. There should be distance charts to the airport offered along with some kind of an interactive map.

2. Style: it is important to pick a hotel that makes you feel comfortable – contemporary or traditional furnishings, local decor or international, formal or relaxed. The perfect hotel directory should let you know of the options 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 they are clever or casual. A good 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 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 rooms, etc

. These things really do matter and any decent hotel directory should offer you this sort of guidance on bedrooms – not just the number of rooms which is the typical choice!

5. Children’s’ Facilities: more crucial to the household traveler than the business traveler. 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 baby sitter service. For the business traveler 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 a detailed analysis of leisure services within the hotel – spa, pool, gym, 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 absolutely vital to some.

Lastly and most importantly, the quality hotel directory inspection team should have checked out 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 information, 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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