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Room With an Anti-View: Nothing But Towers From Hong Kong's City Garden Hotel

Where: 9 City Garden Road, North Point, Hong Kong

You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.

A hotel with a name like the City Garden Hotel in the North Point area of Hong Kong does give us the impression that we might see a garden outside our window. That obviously depends on the room, because this anti-view shows nothing but dizzyingly tall apartment blocks. In fact, we find it scary enough just looking at the photo, and don't think we could stand looking at it in real life.

Despite the fear-of-heights rooms, the City Garden Hotel is a reasonable spot to stay and is convenient to the MTR (railway) as well as Hong Kong's convention center. They have some interesting deals on--including, for some reason, a Graduation Dinner Package which is available all year round. Presumably throwing a graduation dinner is big in Hong Kong because they offer banquets for a minimum of 40 people. Rates for a room to crash in after your big dinner start at HK$750 (just under US$100) but you can pay top dollar for the larger suites--especially, we presume, the ones with the giddy views. If you want them.

[Photo: GothPhil]