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Room With an Anti-View: Highways and Flight Paths at Radisson San Diego

January 17, 2008 at 11:16 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.

There's two ways to think about a hotel that includes the words "Harbor View" in its name. First, you might expect to have a beautiful room overlooking a harbor--that's one of those places with water, a few boats, generally a pleasant sight. The second way is the "glass half empty" method which definitely applied for the traveler who snapped this Anti-View out of their window in the Radisson San Diego Harbor View.

Freeway, endless rows of buildings and the roar of landing aircraft are not the standard components of a harbor view.

Obviously there is a right and a wrong side of the Radisson San Diego, so try and get into a room with a view that lives up to the name. It's about two miles from the airport so it's probably going to be hard to avoid the drone of airplanes, but you could at least arrange to skip the sight of jams of commuter traffic on the freeway and try to enjoy the water.

[Photo: jimfrazier]