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Sometimes You Wish Your Room Had No Windows At All

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.

While it is no secret that we are personally insulted and offended by anti-views so tragic that we can literally see nothing outside our hotel room window (see our Worst Anti-View of 2008 for an example), there are occasions where the visual situation is so upsetting that we sometimes wish we had no windows at all.

Such would be the case if we wound up in a room like the one ZarrSadus had the grave misfortune of staying in at the Marriott Courtyard Miami Airport South. No lie, when we saw this photo in the HC Flickr Pool, we died a little inside: this reminds us of the windows in our grandparents' basements.

Except our grandparents didn't try to create the illusion of a real window by covering up the 80:20 wall-to-window ratio with a giant curtain. Oh! Almost forgot: in our grandparents' basement, we couldn't see any construction workers climbing up and down (ugly) ladders outside the window, either. Oh, and: this is room 4204 — which we assume is on the fourth floor of the hotel, not in the basement.

Yes, this is one of those situations when we'd be happier to have no window at all. At least that way we would have the opportunity to imagine a beautiful ocean view on the other side.

[Photo: ZarrSadus]