If you are going to Paris, don't stay at a Hilton or Hyatt. After all, you are going to France. Soak up some local ambience; you can stay at a Hilton in any city USA! The"mallification" of the world is distressing and the thought that one can travel acrros the oceans and stay in a chain hotel, eat an American Breakfast, shop at the Gap and feed the kids from Pizza Hut anyplace in the world makes me wonder why anyone ever leaves his/her easy chair in front of the television.
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