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Room With an Anti-View: Satellite Dishes from the Charterhouse Hotel, Hong Kong

August 28, 2008 at 9:23 AM | 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.

So perhaps a satellite dish manufacturer might be interested in having a view like this out of their hotel room window, but we're guessing most people would be closing those curtains up tight. This anti-view comes from the Charterhouse Hotel in the Wanchai district of Hong Kong.

The Charterhouse is basically just a budget hotel, but it's popular because it has a really convenient location. In fact, the good location is pretty much the only feature that previous guests consistently talk about, because other than that, it's not the most attractive place--although the Business floor and the S Signature floor do look neat and modern (but are no longer really a budget price).

The cheapest, standard rooms have a rate of around $80 a night; for HK$1,150 (US$150) you can get a renovated "S Classic" room including breakfast and free use of broadband in your room. Just don't look outside.

[Photo: Photocapy]