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Room With an Anti-View :: Hotel Pelayo Barcelona's Unsavory Rooftop

Where: Carrer Pelai 9 1 1 08001, Barcelona, Spain

October 9, 2008 at 11:00 AM | 2 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.

In theory, the Hotel Pelayo in Barcelona is rather lovely: rooms start at only 70 euros, which works out to less than a hundred bucks in US dollars. It's located close to the Plaza Catalonia, and according to the hotel's website, "Picasso Museum and the Gothic Quarter are some of the attraction located in the surroundings."

But a 70-euro hotel apparently gives an appropriately cheap view. User andym_uk posted this gem of an image on Flickr -- a view from a hotel room at Hotel Pelayo. Let's play a little game called "Spot the Unsavory Item," shall we? We spy a gigantic gym sock, a clothespin, unidentifiable trash and an object that appears to either be an empty pack of Spanish cigarettes or an old, weathered flask. Or another an unidentifiable piece of trash.

[Photo: andym_uk]