It is also considering including underground fares with the price of the rooms which the company says are equiped to three star hotel standard.

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That means no-one knows where they are staying - a one-star apartment or a three-star hotel - until they get there.

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The Regina is a plain but sturdy and serviceable three-star hotel on a main commercial street (Via Cesare Corretti), just south of the centro storico (the historic center).

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The three-star Cabanas Hotel is the most informal and family-friendly option, with facilities including a playground, aviary and farmyard.

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France's Accor launched its first budget hotel, a 154-room, three-star Ibis in Tianjin in northern China in 2003.

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This is three-star Michelin Chef Pierre Gagnaire's U.S. debut and his second restaurant within the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.

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