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Room With an Anti-View: A Balcony Wardrobe in Ho Chi Minh City

Where: Dong Khoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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.

How's this for a contrast: if you stay at the Sheraton Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, you'll have a fantastic view of a swimming pool belonging to the Caravelle Hotel next door. But get one main street away from the action, and this is the view from your hotel window instead.

Vietnam vacationer ultrapop design had this to say about their choice:

Well, we did ask for a quiet room away from the main street. Behind it rises the modern Sheraton Hotel in stark contrast.

We're still not sure which hotel gives this view, but it's somewhere in the Dong Khoi section of Ho Chi Minh City, so drop us a line if you can identify it. And let us know if the same wardrobe selection is still hanging on that balcony.

[Photo: ultrapop design]