The beautiful sunset, lush foliage, cushioned lounge chairs and decorative Jacuzzi tiles in the Breezes hotel website photo below look lovely and romantic -- but, as our reporter found, they don’t actually exist! Staged travel hotel photos are all over the place on the web. Add enough air brushing and any hotel will look like the Taj Mahal.

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