Fodor's Expert Review Hôtel Montségur

With its central lower city location, this hotel isn't only handy to Carcassonne's shops, restaurants, and nightlife; it also has special touches that belie the sweet prices here—many guest rooms feature Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture, some of it genuine. Rooms on the second floor are more 19th-century romantic, with gilt-iron bedsteads under sloping oak beams.