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Founders' Verdicts
Hotels we've stayed in personally. Each verdict is a first-hand account — the bits the scored review can't cover, the texture of an actual stay. We pay our own way, at standard rates.
Fat Favorite8.8Champillon, France
Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa
One night. That is all we had, and I want to be upfront about it — a single night is not enough to write the kind of verdict this place probably deserves.
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Fat Favorite8.5Hof bei Salzburg, Austria
Rosewood Schloss Fuschl
I proposed to my fiancée here. At the pier, late afternoon, the two of us looking out over the lake. The staff knew — they helped set the whole thing up — and that evening at turndown, our proposal photo was waiting in a frame on the nightstand. I am not someone who gets…
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