Room With an Anti-View: Athens King Jason Hotel Not Fit For A King
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.
When you're on your honeymoon, you're hoping not to come up against any hotels worthy of our anti-view series, but even though a guidebook recommended the King Jason Hotel in Athens, Greece, to the (unlucky) boeke, that doesn't guarantee a great view. As proven by this particularly grotty view out of the King Jason at night.
What's more, it wasn't just the view that proved not up to honeymoon standards, judging by the accompanying captions from the unlucky honeymooners:
We made our way through the dimly lit streets to our hotel. I can usually tolerate a fairly run-down neighborhood, but this one was just foreign enough and nasty enough to make me put my guard way up.
Other recent hotel guests all concur that their are groups of prostitutes, "strange men" and drunks wandering the alleys near the hotel so it's not a place you want to have to be walking into at night. You won't be surprised to hear the honeymooners didn't stay long. Current room rates are perhaps the only thing the King Jason Hotel has going for it--€95 (US$150) a night for a double room, including a "rich breakfast".
[Photo: boeke]
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