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"  No doubt you&amp;#039;ve had this experience or something like it: You arrive at your hotel for your long-anticipated vacation and find it&amp;#039;s not quite as well-appointed/spacious/clean/generally nice as you&amp;#039;d expected. The reviews written by previous travelers seemed promising, and the photos on the website or brochure were ever so lovely. What went wrong? Well, perhaps the raves were written by hotel staff, and undoubtedly its photographer took some license with either the taking or editing of the photos (or both).  Oyster.com aims to help you find the real deal before you book. The site sends its team of undercover reporters to hotels and resorts to capture the true experience of staying there. They consider everything from the room cleanliness to the availability of room service, rate the stay on a &amp;quot;five-pearl&amp;quot; scale \u2014 and bring back the pictures to back it up. The &amp;quot;Photo Fakeouts&amp;quot; section is both fun and informative: By showing a hotel&amp;#039;s publicity shot side-by-side with a reporter&amp;#039;s unretouched, unaltered image, you learn the tricks that photographers use to make, say, a petite pool look larger (hint: wide-angle lenses, great lighting, and creative cropping). As of now, Oyster.com covers 11 U.S. cities and seven beach locations in the Caribbean and Hawaii. You can also book your stay through the site, which promises a best-price guarantee.  Have you had a particularly good \u2014 or bad \u2014 hotel visit? How did you avoid a vacation stay disaster? Tell us about it in the comments below. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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