Picking the right hotel can seem like a daunting task, requiring too much of your precious time and energy. At first sight the variables in picking a hotel seem endless and confusing, but actually, there are a few simple questions that must be answered. From then on its almost as easy as the holiday itself.

Let’s say the desired destination is the wonderful city of Toledo, attracting many tourists all the year around. In major cities established as frequent tourist destinations, hotels fall into several categories according to the purpose of your trip. In fact, the trip purpose is the most important factor that needs to be taken into account when picking a hotel, regardless of the location.

Hotels in Toledo, for example, fall into the following main categories: romantic, city trip, castle, family, countryside hotels, rather than luxury or business trip ones. These categories are, naturally, established on the basis of what the city has to offer. So, once the destination is decided, the next step is to think of why you want to go there, what you want to do there, who’s coming with you, how long are you planning on staying. Once you’ve got this figured out, you can safely pick from one of the categories mentioned above.

If you have a more metropolitain destination, like London, then there are a wider range of categories to choose from. Again, depending on the purpose of the trip, there is a choice between various hotels in London: budget (or economic hotels), family, spa, castle, business, luxury, city trip, countryside, design, golf or shopping hotels, each of them located and classified according to location, surroundings and amenities.

Another way of picking the right hotel for you, either in Toledo, or in London, is to ask as many people as possible about their opinions. If the person you are turning to hasn’t been there, there are great chances they might know someone who has. Either way, you can get first-hand information from a source you trust.

Yet another way of getting information on hotels in Toledo and London is to go online and aim for the related forums. People writing in these forums are usually people who have really been there and can too provide reliable information. Generally, reviewers for online forums will post pictures of the hotel, lobby, and rooms they had stayed in, so one can get a real glimpse as to where they are going: not the photoshopped paradise in the guidebook that turns out to be a two-star disaster.