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Hôtel de Luxe 5 étoiles?||We stayed at Hotel D'Europe from April 20 to 23. |The hotel amenities, buildings, rooms, art, and atmosphere are wonderful. |Very clean. |It's like a trip in time to a luxurious hospitality from the 1920s. |The restaurant is top of the charts: the staff, food and wine are worth the experience.||The regular hotel staff was great, helpful, and friendly. ||The manager, while being nice and friendly, made the weirdest managaerial decision I can remember witnessing as a traveler:||We lost the room key by mistake while visiting one of the nearby villages. We looked it up and learned that the key is of traditional unique french kind, and it costs 136 EUR to get a replica made and shipped by mail.||We were told by the receptionists to expect a fee of 100 to 150 EUR and that the manager will update us with the fee we are expected to pay.| |We suggested to the receptionists to split it - we understand our responsibility, but we assume that if one breaks the mirror by mistake in a luxury 5-star hotel, the hotel will take care of it, so a split of the key cost is a good solution.||When we checked out, we were happy to find that at the end, they did not charge us for the key at all. Nor the receptionists or the manager mentioned it.||We've continued our trip to discover a day later that the hotel charged our credit 150 EUR for the key.||No call, no email, no discussion. |We find this behavior bizarre and embarrassing and not at all fitting a 5-star French luxury hotel in Provence. ||Unfortunately, this changed our 5 star review to a 1 star review as it's totally unacceptable as we see it.