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A Grand View of Glam Patio Furniture From Sofitel Amsterdam

Where: Oudezijds Voorburgwal 197, Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands, 1012 EX

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.

We always hesitate just a little bit when we post an Anti-View from a hotel in a big city. After all, it's a city and, with buildings right up next to each other and not a whole lotta flex room when it comes to selecting real estate, you're bound to see stuff outside your hotel room window that's not exactly Killer View material — people's houses, people having parties, people in other hotels, etc.

And yet. While the dreaded anti-views are more understandable in big cities, such conditions don't change the fact that they're still craptastic views that you don't want to see outside your expensive hotel room.

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Praise be to Kruisherenhotel

Where: Kruisherengang 19-23, Maastricht, Holland, Netherlands

For the fashion faithful worldwide, there is a new church--- the Kruisherenhotel in Maastricht, Amsterdam's baby cousin.

This place is way futuristic. If Georgio Armani were a star trek fan and he designed a hotel, he would only dream of something like this. It looks sick!

The property was a former monastery until Dutch designer, Henk Vos got his crafty mitts on it. He turned it into a six-star, sixty-room space ship hotel. Big enough to do cartwheels through the lobby, but small enough for a boutique feel.

So does all this design means service falls flat? Hope not. As always, let us know in the comments section below.

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