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So you’re going to the Hills District of Sydney. You’ve selected this destination and now you need to pick a hotel. Ten years ago, you ‘d have probably visited your local travel agent and relied on the in person recommendations 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 fantastic choices available? And more significantly, do you really rely on the photos and descriptions of the hotels that they have awarded themselves with the motivation of getting bookings?
Traveler reviews can be practical, but you need to exercise care. They are often biased, sometimes out of date, and might not serve your interests at all. How do you know that the features that are essential to the reviewer are essential to you? Then there’s the problem of the reviewer’s motivation. The more reviews you read, the more you notice how they tend to cluster at the extremes of viewpoint. On one end, you have upset reviewers with axes to grind; at the other, you have pleased guests who lavish praise beyond belief.
You’ll not be surprised to learn that hotels sometimes publish their own glowing reviews or that competitor’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 picking a hotel. You should then pick an online hotel directory that offers up-to-date, independent, unbiased info that truly matters.

Here are some of the key facts you should bear in mind: 

1. Location: if it matters that your hotel is, for instance, near to the theme 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 offered along with some type of an interactive map.

2. Style: it is important to pick 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 choices readily available.

3. Restaurants, Cafes, 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 they are smart or informal. A good hotel report should tell you this, and especially about breakfast facilities.

4. Bedroom Facilities: you should always thoroughly 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 WIFI or wired broadband connection), Complimentary amenities, views from the room and luxury offerings like a Pillow menu or Bath menu, choice of cigarette smoking or non-smoking rooms, etc

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

5. Children’s’ Facilities: more important to the household tourist than business tourist. You should learn just how child-friendly the hotel is from the directory and make your decision from there. Something worth looking for is whether the hotel offers a baby sitter service. For business tourist wanting to leave children, this is obviously extremely relevant too – possibly a hotel that is not child-friendly would be something more appropriate!

6. Leisure Facilities: the site should offer a detailed analysis of leisure services within the hotel – spa, swimming pool, health club, sauna – along with details of any other facilities nearby such as golf courses.

7. Special Needs: the hotel directory site should recommend the visitor of each hotel’s special needs services and accessibility policy. Whilst again this does not apply to every visitor, it is definitely important to some.

Lastly and most importantly, the quality hotel directory inspection team should have gone to 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 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. Best of luck!

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