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So you’re going to the Hills District of Sydney. You’ve selected this location and now you need to pick a hotel. Ten years ago, you ‘d have most likely visited your local travel agent and trusted the in person suggestions you were offered 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 amazing options on offer? And more significantly, do you truly rely on the pictures and descriptions of the hotels that they have awarded themselves with the inspiration of getting bookings?
Traveler reviews can be valuable, but you need to exercise care. They are often biased, sometimes out of date, and may not serve your interests at all. How do you understand that the features that are necessary to the reviewer are necessary to you? Then there’s the problem of the reviewer’s inspiration. The more reviews you read, the more you notice 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 delighted visitors who lavish appreciation beyond belief.
You’ll not be amazed to discover 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 good sense to consider what is truly crucial to you when choosing a hotel. You should then pick an online hotel directory site that gives current, independent, neutral information that really matters.

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

1. Location: if it matters that your hotel is, for example, near the amusement park, or convenient for the airport, then location is vital. Any good directory site should offer a location map of the hotel and its environs. There should be distance charts to the airport offered in addition to some kind of an interactive map.

2. Style: it is very important to pick a hotel that makes you feel comfortable – contemporary or traditional furnishings, local decor or international, official or relaxed. The perfect hotel directory site 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 an important part in your stay. You should be aware of choice, style and whether or not they are clever or casual. An excellent hotel report should tell you this, and particularly 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 crucial. 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 features, views from the room and high-end offerings like a Pillow menu or Bath menu, choice of cigarette smoking or non-smoking spaces, and so on

. These things truly do matter and any good hotel directory site should offer you this sort of suggestions on bed rooms – not just the number of spaces which is the usual alternative!

5. Children’s’ Facilities: more vital to the household tourist than business tourist. You should learn just how child-friendly the hotel is from the directory site and make your decision from there. One thing worth searching for is whether the hotel offers a babysitter service. For business tourist wishing to escape children, this is of course extremely relevant too – maybe a hotel that is not child-friendly would be something more appropriate!

6. Leisure Facilities: the site should offer an in-depth analysis of leisure services within the hotel – spa, pool, health club, sauna – in addition to 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 essential to some.

Finally and most importantly, the quality hotel directory site inspection team should have visited 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 guest can and it is only then that they are truly in a strong position to blog about the hotel.
with the above details, there is no reason why you should not find the best hotel in the Hills District of Sydney. Best of luck!

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