The Hereford squad travelled to Darlington on Friday afternoon in advance of yesterday's game.
Captain Josh Gowling gave his view about the overnight stay.
"I've had a long career so whenever you've played away games in the football league you've always stayed overnight.
"I think it helps you prepare, it gets you focused.
"I think if we had come up today it's a long journey.
"If you do that journey and then have to put a shift in with ten men, it's going to be difficult.
"The fact we stayed over gave us that extra bit of preparation."
Hereford stopped Darlington winning run of six games.
"They did play Wednesday so we were aware of that.
"We thought they were going to start well so we just had to be solid, resilient.
"They play expansive football, they play out of the back, they get the full backs bombing on so we knew we would be under the cosh a little bit.
"But if you look at the games we've played, even the two games when we've conceeded three, we haven't been cut apart. It's just been those little stupid things.
"We knew if we cut them out we've wouldn't get opened up and we didn't."
Gowling suffered a nasty cut to his forehead late in the game
"I just went down and they played on but to be fair to the referee he came and apologised afterwards because he didn't see me down.
"I wasn't out, it was just painfull.
"I couldn't go off, it's a little cut isn't it!
"We had a job to do, we were down to ten men early, we all have to play our part, we all have to dig in.
"And that's what I did."