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Old Oct 12, 2016 | 10:18 pm
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Originally Posted by paperwastage
as DutchessPDX mentioned, stars are not a legally recognized term... no uniform way to measure

implicitly, they are offering "5-star property as rated/normalized by Priceline's guidelines"... and they met this requirement

(it makes sense right? a french hotel might say they are only 3 stars (out of 4)... and priceline would normalize it to their 5-star rating. french now uses 5 stars)
OT but when did France ever have a hotel rating system where the top was four stars? IIRC even in the 1970s there were five star hotels in Paris. Also, France has some properties that are five star "luxe" or palace hotels. There are also some hotels without any stars, although nowadays these tend to be hostels.
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