Grimey Windows Don't Distract From Hotel Penn's Grimey View

December 26, 2008 at 1:30 PM | by Jenna | 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.

Oh, Hotel Pennsylvania. You have been through so much, haven't you? You had gotten so run down and exhausted that you were ready to give up — and then you were saved from the wrecking ball , only to continue living your life thrown into such degrading and humiliating situations as being given away to viewers of the same network that airs shows like "Parental Control" and "Next." We get why you might be a bit lazy or down & out these days.

But you know what? We're not sure we can support this: a view that is so utterly crappy that it appears you have allowed your windows to grime up so much that, presumably, the guest may be distracted from such a bad view. A Flickr-er by the name of r3v cls stayed at the Penn last April and was greeted not only by these atrocious views (but in the Penn's defense, NYC is a big city and there isn't a whole lot of room for sweeping, scenic panoramic eye-feasts), but the windows standing between the guest and such views are coated with a pretty sexy layer of dirt.

Check out this closeup of the window, which was accompanied by the following caption by the photographer: "Now that's a dirty window. You'd think it was raining or foggy or something. Nope." Gross.

[Photos: r3v cls]

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