8 BRAND-NEW Photo Fakeouts That Are, Well, Ridiculous

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Throughout our hours and hours of travel and hotel investigating, we've come across quite a few photo fakeouts: Situations where the hotel website showed the property as one way, and we found it to be a totally different way when we arrived. Like in the cases of "crowd-free" beaches, "delicious" buffets, and "massive" pools. And we've become quite famous for our discovery of these sneaky marketing ploys.

So today we're sharing our latest findings: from two mattresses magically merging into one to disappearing beach crowds, hotels we've visited recently have been up to plenty of tricks. Trust us, you've got to click through and see for yourself >>

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