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Bad Rate :: $516 or More a Night at the Bucharest Hilton

Where: 1-3 Episcopiei St., District 1, Bucharest, Romania

[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same region and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quoted here were captured on July 31, 2007 and are subject to change. Enjoy.]

If you're heading to Bucharest, Romania, you can easily spend two weekend nights for less than $300, starting with this week's Good Rate at the Rembrandt Hotel. If that's full, you're not hurting for choices though: European site Booking.com lists 21 hotels for under $150 a night for a August 17 to 19 and Expedia lists 15.

Then there's the Athenee Palace Hilton Bucharest, where the lowest rate we could find for that weekend was 380 Euro a night, or $516. Even if you can manage to get the best deal captured from this promotion screen shot, it's still $342. Did we mention that this is for Bucharest? In the land of Count Dracula, Romania? Yes, we know that Romania joined the EU this past January, but Prague, Vienna, or Budapest this city is not.

This being a Hilton, you can also expect to pay handsomely for parking and Internet access. If the ugly standard room photos on the website are the best they can do, we would also advise charging even more euros to your expense account to make sure you are on the Executive Floor. Besides a continental breakfast, you'll get furniture and bedding that looks like it was made after the end of the Cold War.

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