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Title: Steer clear of this unreliable guide.
Review: Don't be fooled by the witty writing; the writers are either ill-informed or malicious. 2 of 3 hotels they recommended were downright seedy. The Miramar at La Ciotat (three stars, "a classy, updated old hotel amid pine groves, by the beach") turned out to be a nicotine-saturated, dimly lit dive that charged our credit card before we arrived (we didn't stay). Pine groves? The hotel sits shadeless on an ugly stretch of tarmac. The "pine groves" were a few trees in the parking lot behind the hotel. There are many good guides to Provence; choose another.
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