Vous partez donc à l’étranger, vous avez choisi votre destination et vous devez maintenant choisir un hôtel.
Ten years ago, you’d have probably visited your local travel agent and trusted the face-to-face advice you were given by the so called ‘experts’. The 21st Century way to select and book your hotel is of course on the Internet, by using travel websites.
Mais comment passer en revue l'ensemble des choix proposés? Et plus important encore, faites-vous vraiment confiance aux photographies et aux descriptions que les hôtels ont mis en place avec la motivation d'obtenir davantage de réservations? Les avis des voyageurs peuvent être utiles, mais vous devez faire preuve de prudence. Ils sont souvent biaisés, parfois obsolètes et peuvent ne pas servir du tout vos intérêts. Comment savoir que les éléments qui sont importants pour le réviseur, le sont également pour vous?
The more reviews you read, the more you notice how they tend to cluster at the extremes of opinion.
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 opinion. 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 learn that hotels sometimes post their own glowing 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 choose an online hotel directory that gives up-to-date, independent, impartial information that really matters.
Voici quelques faits clés que vous devez garder à l'esprit :
Lieu
If it matters that your hotel is, for example, on the beach, close 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 offered as well as some form of interactive map.Style
It is important to choose 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 know of the options available.Restaurants, cafés et bars
Les couleurs locales sont formidables mais les restaurants et les bars de l'hôtel peuvent jouer un rôle important lors de votre séjour. Soyez conscient des choix, des styles, s'ils sont plutôt élégants ou informels. Un bon rapport d'hôtel doit vous raconter ceci, et en particulier le service du petit-déjeuner.Aménagement des chambres
You should always carefully consider the type of facilities you need from your bedroom and find the hotel that has those you consider important. The hotel directory website 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 rooms etc.
These things really do matter and any decent hotel directory should give you this sort of advice on bedrooms – not just the number of rooms which is the usual option!
Children’s’ Facilities
More important to the family traveler than the business traveler, you should find out 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 sitters service. For the business traveler wishing to escape children this is of course very relevant too – perhaps a hotel that is not child friendly would be something more appropriate!-
Installations de loisirs
The site should offer a detailed analysis of leisure services within the hotel – spa, pool, gym, 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 again this does not apply to every visitor, it is absolutely vital to some.
Finally and most importantly, the quality hotel directory inspection team should have visited the hotel in question on a regular basis, met the staff, slept in a bedroom and tried the food. They should experience the hotel as only a hotel guest can and it is only then that they are really in a strong position to write about the hotel.