A Grand View of Glam Patio Furniture From Sofitel Amsterdam

December 11, 2008 at 12:53 PM | by Jenna | 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.

We always hesitate just a little bit when we post an Anti-View from a hotel in a big city. After all, it's a city and, with buildings right up next to each other and not a whole lotta flex room when it comes to selecting real estate, you're bound to see stuff outside your hotel room window that's not exactly Killer View material — people's houses, people having parties, people in other hotels, etc.

And yet. While the dreaded anti-views are more understandable in big cities, such conditions don't change the fact that they're still craptastic views that you don't want to see outside your expensive hotel room.

Take this one, from out the window of Sofitel The Grand Amsterdam. This shot comes to us courtesy of scanna283, and this window is part of a hotel room that starts around $380 USD. Bummer to pay so much for a view like this, right? Especially since the hotel is situated between two canals and the other rooms have "delightful views of the canals, the inner garden or our courtyard."

...And this one is of the balcony of someone else's apartment, with an added delightful view of the plastic patio chair on which the residents sit and smoke clove cigarettes on a semi-hourly basis.

[Photo: scanna283]

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