Your little one may not be excited to be dragged along to Provence's medieval villages, but he will be pumped to play on a pirate boat at the Four Seasons Provence at Terre Blanche. The poolside pirate boat is only part of the French hotel's new free kiddie offerings this summer.

That pool also has a water slide, water-shooting dinosaurs, a wading splash pool and a kids-only snack bar. Aside from the water options, the hotel partnered with Lego to build a new Kids for All Seasons Centre with two playrooms, one for tykes between 2 and 5 and the other for children 6 to 12, which of course come with Wiis and PlayStations. ]]> Jennifer Kester 2011-06-30T15:55:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/6/11/65727/6417 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Hotel_breakfast.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>According to this weekend's UK Times, you can be much better off if you book "breakfast included" rooms--and not just from the obvious fact of having a full stomach before you leave your hotel. They have a theory that it often works out cheaper to book a room that includes breakfast (even if you don't actually eat it) than one that doesn't.</p><p>For example, they give the example that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Four+Seasons+Provence/local/637"><b>Four Seasons Provence</b></a> has a standard room rate of &#163;474, but this drops to &#163;369 if you ask for breakfast to be included. This weird scenario also holds true in Four Season hotels in Dublin and Egypt. Why? They only dug deep enough to get a Four amandak 2007-06-11T09:40:07-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/