Room With an Anti-View: Pay Extra For This Scaffolding At Le Parker Meridien NY

Where: 118 West 57th Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10019

5/22/2008 at 9:06 AM
Tags: Anti-View, Le Meridien hotels, New York Hotels

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've been thinking warm glowing thoughts about the Le Parker Meridien in New York since we heard about their Wii workout facilities, but that was until we got this tip-off from L Mermaid. She took her mother for a Mother's Day break to the Big Apple and they booked a room worth an extra $50 to get an upgrade to a park view room.

But this is the view of the park from their upgraded room. Agreed, we can see just a little bit of park, but clearly the scaffolding and construction is the main feature of this view, and it's probably not worth an extra $50.

To make matters worse, when they checked in (admittedly a little late after bus problems) the front desk clerk didn't even want to give them a park view room--he said they hadn't paid enough. The next day they spoke to someone friendlier and decided to move to a suite with a city view. That sounds like it was a good decision.

[Photo: L Mermaid]