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From hotel savings to better booking engines, alternative accommodations to lodging rip-offs, here is the best lodging advice around
Don't use the most famous booking engines; use the ones with the largest selection and lowest rates
★★★Of all London's boutique inns, this Chelsea hotel succeeds the best at leaving behind the aura of impersonal hotel to create instead a cozy private home feel—with discreet hotel comforts—in a building from the 1800s
★★★An 11C castle become a Relais & Chateaux hotel between Southampton and London in West Sussex
★★☆
★★☆A true old coaching inn, with cozy modern room above an 18th-century Greenwich pub
★★☆This hotel is about as downtown as you can get, just a block from Bath Abbey and just off the river
★★☆
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★★☆A deluxe hotel with its own hot springs baths just 100 meters form the ancient Roman baths
★★☆
Scams and rip-offs at the hotel—many of them perfectly legal. Avoid the minibar, phone, laundry service, and parking garage
User review sites are handy, but take their advice with a grain (make that a shaker) of salt
Hotel sites often feature special sales and promotions you won't find on the booking engines and aggregators
A room with "external facilities" (shared bath down the hall) always costs less for this minor inconvenience
A Full English breakfast is lovely and worthwhile; a dull, continental-style one isn't worth the added expense
Hotels' official star ratings have nothing to do with how clean, central, comfortable, or charming a hotel is—just how many (often pointless) amenities it offers
All the steps you can take to find the lowest price on the perfect place to stay
From hotel savings to better booking engines, alternative accommodations to lodging rip-offs, here is the best lodging advice around
Don't use the most famous booking engines; use the ones with the largest selection and lowest rates
Of all London's boutique inns, this Chelsea hotel succeeds the best at leaving behind the aura of impersonal hotel to create instead a cozy private home feel—with discreet hotel comforts—in a building from the 1800s
An 11C castle become a Relais & Chateaux hotel between Southampton and London in West Sussex
A true old coaching inn, with cozy modern room above an 18th-century Greenwich pub
This hotel is about as downtown as you can get, just a block from Bath Abbey and just off the river
A deluxe hotel with its own hot springs baths just 100 meters form the ancient Roman baths
Scams and rip-offs at the hotel—many of them perfectly legal. Avoid the minibar, phone, laundry service, and parking garage
User review sites are handy, but take their advice with a grain (make that a shaker) of salt
Hotel sites often feature special sales and promotions you won't find on the booking engines and aggregators
A room with "external facilities" (shared bath down the hall) always costs less for this minor inconvenience
A Full English breakfast is lovely and worthwhile; a dull, continental-style one isn't worth the added expense
Hotels' official star ratings have nothing to do with how clean, central, comfortable, or charming a hotel is—just how many (often pointless) amenities it offers
All the steps you can take to find the lowest price on the perfect place to stay