There's always been some concern about the voyeuristic taste at The Hotel on Rivington (THOR) with its all-glass, see-through showers facing the street for all of the Lower East Side and peeping Toms with binoculars further uptown to see.
However, just because the free world may peer at hotel guests doesn't mean guests aren't spying back. From a tipster:
My friends took showers in Thor's standard glass showers (only 3/4 of which are frosted). The girl had a problem and waited until daytime, but my guy friend put on a show for some random neighbor smoking on her fire escape. We also had a prime view down into the lounge, to see people eating breakfast.
Is it wrong that we are slightly jealous of that smoking neighbor on the fire escape? Anyways, have no fear those of you with body image issues. THOR does provide "privacy paper" if you'd like not to put on a show. Those of you eating breakfast, well...you're outta luck.
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.
Thanks go to another HotelChatter tipster, tombarnes20008, who dropped this photograph into the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool. It's a picture of the view from the balcony of Room 433 in the Westin Palace Madrid, and while it's far from the ugliest anti-view we've ever seen, it's certainly a view we might be a bit disappointed to find.
Take a look around from this balcony in another direction and we're fairly sure we'll see a much prettier side of Madrid. But this view is so plain-Jane that we'd think we should've paid less than the $500 minimum you'd pay for a room like this. It's all a matter of perspective. Our expectations are just higher.
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.
Avoid a room on this side of the Marriott Hotel Jackson in Mississippi unless you have a particular fascination with parking lots. Personally we'd rather stare at closed curtains than look out over these pretty bland buildings and endless rows of cars.
The Marriott Jackson website does freely admit that the hotel is in the heart of the business and government district, and since they've just done a multi-million dollar renovation, the inside must be looking much better than the view. Rates start at $139 a night with romantic getaway packages (romantic view not included) from $149 including champagne and strawberries.
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.
Double thanks to intrepid traveler mhodges who's been busily dropping photos into our Flickr pool. This one is an anti-view from the Hyatt Regency Belgrade in Serbia.
Apparently the Hyatt in Belgrade also has rooms with views over the river and the old town area of Belgrade--this view looks to the "modern" architecture and chaos of new Belgrade, which seems to be lacking some charm. Graciously, though, mhodges did say that this Hyatt has fantastic service and beautiful rooms, so if you end up in a room on this side of the building it's obviously better to just close the curtains.
The bottom of the range king-size rooms come for €185 (US$280) over summer, or you could always go for the presidential suite (with a better view) for €1,505 (US$2,400).
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.
An anti-view is not always a bad thing, according to the Kalense Kid. Don't by fooled by his arty black-and-white rendering of this anti-view: Room 19 at the Maison du Chêne in Maastricht does not have a pretty outlook. As the Kid says,
This room comes with a view, at no extra cost. If you like looking at walls, it's a stunning view.
The surprise is that he actually totally recommends this room. Apparently it's at the back of the hotel, at the top of its own private staircase, and is the quietest room--perfect for a good night's sleep. So if you're in Maastricht for business or sightseeing, but not for luxurious views, check this room out. Average rates are under a hundred bucks so it won't break your budget either.
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.
In our ever-increasing collection of hotel room anti-views that just show some architects believe we don't look out windows, take a look at this view from the Comfort Suites Innsbrook. Fricks World dropped it into the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool and says it's the view from room number 209; we're guessing there are a bunch more rooms with a similar view.
In spite of the view, this Comfort Suites spot doesn't sound so bad. It's got free high-speed internet access, an indoor pool and a sundeck, and average rates are $120 a night. Once again, you're not paying for the view.
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.
Gray weather doesn't help this particularly gray anti-view from the Lyon Hotel in Buenos Aires. A huge mess of power lines doesn't help either, and unless you can really focus on that tiny strip where you can see something like an old church, there's really nothing pretty to look at at all. Having said that, the photographer was extremely fair :
All said and done, a decent hotel. The view is typical of the central part of the city.
Yep, a very fair opinion. At least the rates aren't too exorbitant--$85 for a double or $100 a night for a triple suite also seems fair, given the views are nothing to write home about.
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.
We've been thinking warm glowing thoughts about the Le Parker Meridien in New York since we heard about their Wii workout facilities, but that was until we got this tip-off from L Mermaid. She took her mother for a Mother's Day break to the Big Apple and they booked a room worth an extra $50 to get an upgrade to a park view room.
But this is the view of the park from their upgraded room. Agreed, we can see just a little bit of park, but clearly the scaffolding and construction is the main feature of this view, and it's probably not worth an extra $50.
To make matters worse, when they checked in (admittedly a little late after bus problems) the front desk clerk didn't even want to give them a park view room--he said they hadn't paid enough. The next day they spoke to someone friendlier and decided to move to a suite with a city view. That sounds like it was a good decision.
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