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This View Is Probably a Bit Jarring For Those Not In-The-Know

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, you're looking out your Chicago hotel room window at a view of a roof. Meh. And you happen to see two dudes in haz-mat-ish suits walking around on that roof. And they're walking towards you kinda. Probably a little bit jarring, no? Maybe you get a little nervous?

Well, hopefully a few more minutes of watching these dudes would lead you to understand that they're beekeepers. And they're just up on the roof doin' their beekeeping thang.

This is a hotel room view of a neighboring Chicago rooftop, which was snapped by Flickr user amlibrarian. And, according to the captions on the photo series, this scene was a little bit scary until the guest realized these were actually beekeepers. We're pretty sure this is the view from a Sheraton Chicago room (the photo set says that this is a hotel room's "view of the roof next door" — and, the giveaway, the hotel had a Microsoft Surface computer, a feature at select Sheratons).

Regardless, now you know that if you end up in a hotel room with an anti-view of a roof and you happen to look out onto a scene like this one, rest assured that there is nothing scary going on — just another urban building with a beekeeping program, like the one Fairmont has in place at some of their properties.

[Photo: amalibrarian]