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Affordable & Adorable Napoli: Five Value Hotels

2013-02-21 by Phil Butler

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Napoli (Naples), or Neapolis in the Ancient Greek (“new city”). There’s hardly anyone who has not known the name of one of Italy’s most fantastic destinations. One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Earth, what was a Bronze Age center of trade, is today a metropolis of unique character. The mix of antiquity and modernity here, and the special character of the people, really make the place adorable, and a value too.

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HotelSweep Adds More Depth to Hotel Search

2012-02-01 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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Could hotel search get any more competitive than it is already? Well apparently, err, yes it can. The newly released HotelSweep is the latest fledgling in a long line of hotel search tools to hit the web, promising to make looking for a hotel even more convenient than it is already.

Tags: Google hotel finder, Hipmunk, hotel finder, hotel search, hotel search apps, hotel search tools, hotelsweep, HotelSweep hotel search, hotelsweep UK, value hotels

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