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Room With an Anti-View: La Quinta Inn Inherits Anti-View from Ramada

Where: 3320 Rangeline Rd [map], Joplin, MO, United States, 64801

October 2, 2008 at 11:05 AM | 1 Comment

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.

Since obsessive hotel room view collector Jim took this anti-view, the hotel has changed from a Ramada to the La Quinta Inn in Joplin, Missouri, but we're guessing the view probably hasn't changed too much. Sure, the semi-trailers have probably taken a hike, but they're almost the most interesting part.

To be fair, the La Quinta Inn seems more about location than views--it's a motel on route US 71 at I-44 close to Missouri Southern College. Room rates average a low $79 a night, so you can hardly expect a spectacular view to be thrown in for free. Of course, we can still dream of a decent view and a low price turning up together.

[Photo: Jim Frazier]