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Use Your Brain, Get A Cheapo Suite at Le Mas Candille This Summer

Where: Bd Clement Rebuffel, Mougins, France, 06250

We like ridiculous hotel giveaways a lot, but sometimes we can’t help feeling like bagging a cheapo room during these gimmicky sales is a little too much like a fastest-finger game. How about testing our intellect — if only a weeny bit — before they let us loose on their underpriced rooms?

Le Mas Candille, the swanky hotel in Mougins on the Cote d’Azur, clearly feels the same way. They wanted to throw a great prize our way to celebrate the opening of its six new suites in July. But to avoid it being a question of whose WiFi connection works the fastest, they’re making the process a little more taxing with a reverse auction, which opened this morning.

Here’s how it works: You decide the lowest price you would pay to stay in one of said suites (rack rate: €750, or $1065 a night). You then email your bid – in euros – along with your name, address and phone number, to auction[at]lemascandille.com. The person with the lowest unique bid – ie, the lowest price not to have been picked by anyone else – gets the prize, which is a night in one of the suites for the price they’ve named. Minimum bid is €1, although we’d suggest going a bit higher to hit a unique figure (at least, that’s what we did).

Them’s the rules, kids; now all you have to do is place your bid by Friday, July 1st. Oh, and if you don’t win, and you don’t have €750 to spare, you can get a standard room for €345, or $491.