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Room With an Anti-View: Noisy Though Convenient at Ibis Rennes

January 24, 2008 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.

This isn't a shockingly terribly anti-view. It's more representative of our severe phobia of close-to-rail-station hotels. You know, the kind who sing long and loud about how conveniently located they are--just one minute's walk from the train station!--and then when you arrive, you realize they weren't stretching the truth (as you'd assumed) and they really are one minute from the train station. Or less. And your room overlooks it and is therefore very, very noisy.

Anyway, that's the case here at the Ibis Rennes Centre Gare Sud in France. Sure, if you keep your gaze lifted high you'll see some pretty buildings, but the foreground is full of this not-too-tiny train station and we can already see two trains waiting there. They're going to drive off and make a lot of noise, we just know it. This hotel's website describes the situation as having "direct access" to the train station, so keep that in mind as a danger phrase and ask for a room on the other side of the hotel. The good news? They offer WiFi. Which is fine if you like reading email while being deafened by trains.

[Photo: redjar]