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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 probably visited your local travel agent and trusted the in person guidance you were offered by the so-called ‘experts’. The 21st Century way to choose and book your hotel is obviously on the Internet, by using travel websites.
But how do you sift through the remarkable choices available? And more importantly, do you actually trust the photos and descriptions of the hotels that they have awarded themselves with the inspiration of getting bookings?
Traveler reviews can be practical, but you need to exercise caution. They are often prejudiced, sometimes out of date, and might not serve your interests at all. How do you know that the functions that are important to the customer are important to you? Then there’s the issue of the customer’s inspiration. The more reviews you read, the more you discover 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 happy guests who lavish praise beyond belief.
You’ll not be surprised to find out that hotels sometimes publish their own glowing reviews or that rival’s line up for the chance to lambaste the competition with bad reviews. It makes sense to consider what is actually crucial to you when picking a hotel. You should then choose an online hotel directory that provides up-to-date, independent, neutral information that truly matters.

Here are some of the key facts you should remember: 

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 surroundings. There should be distance charts to the airport provided in addition to some kind of an interactive map.

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

3. Restaurants, Cafes, 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 informal. A good hotel report should tell you this, and particularly about breakfast facilities.

4. Bedroom Facilities: you should constantly thoroughly consider the type of facilities you need from your bedroom and find a hotel that has those you consider crucial. The hotel directory 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 luxury offerings like a Pillow menu or Bath menu, choice of smoking or non-smoking spaces, etc

. These things actually do matter and any decent hotel directory should give you this sort of guidance on bed rooms – not just the variety of spaces which is the typical option!

5. Children’s’ Facilities: more important to the family traveler than the business traveler. You should discover just how child-friendly the hotel is from the directory and make your decision from there. One thing worth searching for is whether the hotel offers a baby sitter service. For the business traveler wishing to leave children, this is obviously really relevant too – perhaps 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, swimming pool, gym, 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 absolutely essential to some.

Finally and most importantly, the quality hotel directory evaluation team should have visited 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 actually in a strong position to blog about the hotel.
with the above info, there is no reason why you should not find the best hotel in the Hills District of Sydney. Good luck!

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