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If You Play Your Cards Right, You Can Score 20% Off Regent Hotels

The Regent Hotels chain has a deal going for anyone visiting their three European hotels: the Regent Esplanade Zagreb in Croatia, the Regent Berlin in Germany or the Regent Grand Hotel Bordeaux in France (they're adding a fourth hotel in Dubrovnik next year).

It's not a mindblowingly-fantastic deal compared to some of the discounts out there, but it's better than nothing: if you stay two nights including a Saturday, or three nights including a Tuesday or a Wednesday, then you'll get a 20% discount on your room rate. You can book this deal through til the end of August for stays all the way through 2009.

This is clearly a deal targeted at filling gaps in their booking schedules and while we think it's a bit complicated to plan your trip around the nights hotels are typically emptiest, these three hotels are worth trying. In Bordeaux you can get really fresh lobster, the Berlin Regent is well-located and fancy-looking and the Zagreb location earned some great feedback from one of our readers — well, apart from the complaint that the hotel toiletries seem a bit male-oriented. Ladies might need to use some of cash left over from the 20% savings to get some prettier-smelling stuff instead.

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A Bed and Breakfast in Bordeaux Sans Breaking The Bank

Where: 2 Rue Porte Brunet, St. Emilion, France, 33330

With some of the priciest wines in the world, famous restaurants and deluxe hotels, a trip to the wine-producing region of Bordeaux can be an expensive proposition. Now at least you can put more of your money towards tasting fine wines by staying at the colorful and cheap Auberge de la Commanderie in the picturesque hamlet of St. Emilion.

L’Auberge de la Commanderie is situated right in the heart of the village on the main road of Rue Guadet, and thankfully has its own private parking lot so you can avoid hunting for a space amidst the hoards of tourists that come to visit the UNESCO World Heritage certified town in summer.

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Futuristic Bordeaux Hotel Functions As If Hungover

Where: 54 Quai de Bacalan, Bordeaux, France, 33300

When in Bordeaux, though some might enjoy more classical or idyllically French things, or wine, some might go avant-garde. But the New York Times wouldn't.

The marginally positive review in "Check-in, Check-out," of the sleek and new Seeko'o Hotel uses most of its word count to list technical, um, difficulties, that were not addressed during the course of the reviewer's stay. Seth Sherwood writes:

My room, No. 101, a “junior suite” was really just a semispacious hotel room (for 180 euros). The “business center,” similarly, was a lone Internet-linked computer in the lobby. Moreover, the room smelled of cigarettes and looked out on a row of decrepit buildings.

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If You're Going to Splurge at the Regent Bordeaux, You Might as Well Order the Lobster

Where: 2-5 Place de la Comedie, Bordeaux, France, 33000

We've heard there's been a "culinary renaissance" going on in Bordeaux, Paris' vino-licious sister, as "new Bordelais chefs have been invigorating the culinary scene."

Meanwhile, the Regent Grand Hotel Bordeaux, has been busy invigorating the hotel scene as the first amd only five-star hotel to open its doors in Bordeaux.

Inside the hotel, the 48-seat Le Pressoir d'Argent, serving up haute seafood cuisine, and has already established a reputation for an elaborate lobster dish that may be worth the trip:

This intricate menu item involves the restaurant's namesake silver lobster press, one of only five in the world. An elaborate gastronomic production, a choice Breton lobster is first presented live, then brought to the kitchen to be pan-cooked and served atop fresh pasta. The dish is completed in the dining room. The lobster's shell is compressed in the elegant silver press, using the lobster's essence to create a reduction to accompany the dish.

Oh lord! Maybe you'll hit the wine bottle before this whole ordeal so you don't have to think much about seeing him alive before he gets in your belly.

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