Room With an Anti-View: Aesthetically Unpleasing Architecture in Seoul
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.
Before we talk about the view from Seoul's Metro Hotel Myungdong, let's talk about what their website promises:
A Journey ... Not the Same ... You will have plenty to feel satisfied about, plenty to smile about in Metro.
That's a big promise and if we check the view from this room, we're not smiling too hard or feeling enormously satisfied yet. There's a lovely concrete jungle, if you can smile about that kind of thing, and some weird architecture going on with the building next door. What are these big squares all about, and who is meant to see them, other than guests at this level or higher in the Metro Hotel? It kind of looks like a part of the building that they've put on in the wrong place.
We shouldn't be too hard on the Metro Hotel's view--Seoul's a huge city and there can't be too many killer views from Seoul hotels. To its credit, the Metro is centrally located and offers reasonably-priced rooms from around $100 a night. There are 75 rooms that include an internet connection, satellite TV channels and double glazed windows to keep out some of the city noise.
If you're still balancing up the bad view versus the decent hotel ideas, here's a quote from the Metro's website to tip the scales: "Seoul's Metro Hotel fits like a well-made Korean glove." Say no more.
[Photo: xeeliz]
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