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Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian's Ladder to Nowhere

Where: 9751 Washingtonian Blvd [map], Gaithersburg, MD, United States, 20878

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.

Good lord. When we came across this shot of a view from a room at the Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian outside Washington DC, we seriously got bummed out.

Now, a room looking out onto a roof-ish area (such as what this one appears to be) is one thing, but a room looking out onto the roof-ish area with a ladder to nowhere and what appears to be a service entrance and absolutely nothing else — especially when the rest of the hotel "overlooks a picturesque lake" — kind of a bummer, no?

This shot comes to us via jonlarge's Flickr, and the rest of the view is just as rough: looking the other direction gets you a view of the rest of the roof, some hot wall action and a big bright light.

On the inside, the hotel ain't so bad: all 284 guest rooms were recently upgraded, and all rooms feature the new Marriott Revive beds. So on the bright side, in case you get stuck with a window that looks out onto this, you can at least enjoy sleeping since you're not going to enjoy gazing out at a picturesque lake.

[Photo: jonlarge]