Charming Small Hotel Guides: France (7th ed)

A charming small hotel sounds like just the ticket for your trip to France, but they all describe themselves that way. Guaranteed, none of the brochures promote "small but rude hotel, poor service, awful breakfast." What you need is the word from someone who's checked them all out personally. That's what Andrew Duncan delivers, with 350 reliably charming hotels from Île-de-France to Corsica. Most descriptions come with a color photo as well as pertinent details such as phone, fax, price, location, when they're closed, and if the facilities are available for the disabled, children, and pets.