Downtown Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent
Our hotel here (Hotel le Canter) was by far the cheapest night of the trip. I shouldn't complain but you definitely get what you pay for. The town where it was located was rather drab and without any real shops or points of interest. The hotel was a bit Fawlty Towers-ish and had seen better days. But it was clean, warm and safe. In fact, we appeared to be the only folks there. There wasn't even a front desk person. We had been given a code that let us inside and on the front desk were our room keys.
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