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Room With an Anti-View: The Dirty Walls of Glasgow

November 21, 2007 at 9:20 AM | 0 Comments

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.

You'd have to check a lot of our Anti-Views to find a view as bad as this one from the Ramada Glasgow City Hotel in Scotland. As disappointed visitor to Glasgow Cellach discovered, it wasn't only the view that failed to be first class last month:

When the web site said "We are currently undertaking some minor refurbishments, we hope you won't be inconvenienced during your stay" the alarm bells should have rung. I tripped over the pile of paint cans on the way into my room last night and ate my breakfast this morning accompanied by the sound of power tools and some impressive Glaswegian cursing. The whole place (food included) was covered in a fine layer of dust. If I tell you it didn't do much to impair the flavour you might get the general idea...

Presumably some rooms have a better outlook than a grubby brick wall but it still might be better to what until the refurb's over.

[Photo: Cellach]

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