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Iced Out Of a Killer View in Iceland
| July 2, 2009 at 2:31 PM | 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.
Now, there is a certain type of anti-view that sucks spectacularly because the view you wanted is, like, half-obstructed by a wall. And now here is a very different, more modern and design-y version of an anti-view that is annoying because we don't really understand what it is that we're looking at here. A piece of a set from The Fifth Element? The side of a spaceship? Part of the 101 Hotel, or part of the building next to it (which, we believe, is the Iceland Opera House)?
Regardless, this is a shot of the view from 101 Hotel — one of those sweet Design Hotels — in Reykjavik, which has 38 rooms, free WiFi and is run by a gallery owner who uses "grays, black and white, clean lines and well-placed local art works to convey pure Nordic coolness." (Sidenote: how would W's wordsmith describe this place? We can only imagine.)
Rezzies here go for 45,900 ISK (just over $360) and, if you can deal with this potentially-poopy view, you can book here.
[Photo: Miamabanta]
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The Moore Hotel's Anti-Views Strike Again
| June 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM | 1 Comment
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.
Oh, gross. This sort of looks like a shipwreck, doesn't it? Or some sort of a Disneyworld ride that has to do with pirates and pillaging and the ocean?
Yes, well. This is the view from the Moore Hotel in Seattle — which comes with no caption or commentary or anything via ntoper on Flickr — and we've got a couple things to say about it: number one, bummer. Number two: this is the Moore Hotel's second offense — and if we look closely, we can see a little snippet of the scene out the last anti-view-victim's window.
But like we said before: the location of this hotel is killer — near Pike Place Market, Belltown and the Space Needle, and the "European-style" rooms (where the bathroom is down the hall) start at just $59. So, uh, we suppose you could, like, go outside of your room to see Seattle.
[Photo: ntoper]
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The Cooper Square War Rages On, Now With D-Bags
| June 25, 2009 at 9:01 AM | 0 Comments
We're not sure what kind of people hit up the Cooper Square Hotel's controversial outdoor terrace for drinks — hipsters? Preppy banker-types? Collar-poppers? Ed-Hardy-shirt-types? — but we can tell you one thing: the neighbors think they're douchebags.
Or, at least, they'd like someone to notice that they have made their next move in the pissed-off neighbors vs. The Cooper Square war and have hoisted a "douchebag" above the hotel's outdoor bar.
To recap: The Cooper Square's outdoor bar opened up fairly recently, to the annoyance of the right-up-against-it neighbors, who can seriously hear every little word uttered on that balcony. Seriously: every little word. Warning shots were fired in the form of a giant pair of poopy undies, and the clothesline wars have been continuing since. Now: this douchebag.
Thanks to the tipster who sent this in. We know that none of this is particularly funny for those involved, but the clever-ness makes us giggle.
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A Budget Hotel in Toronto With an Appropriately-Budget View
| June 18, 2009 at 2:50 PM | 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.
Usually when you check yourself into a budget hotel, you're not expecting much out of the view — you pay a low price for a room, the most you can really hope for is a nice, comfortable stay. You're not so picky about the view. No frills needed.
But occasionally you luck out — take that Best Western with the sweet-ass view in Oregon, for example — and your less-than-a-Benjamin room rate lands you a more-than-a-Benjamin view.
Okay, but not the case here: this is a poopy view from a (somewhat dated-looking) Days Inn in Toronto. Room rates here look to be around 105 (CAD) right now, which comes out to $93-ish in the states. This comes from Rick's Pics, who was in Toronto for a conference — and then he switched hotels, apparently, for another conference and got majorly hooked up with one of those budget hotels with the expensive-looking views.
[Photo: Rick's Pics]
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The Saddest Non-Jail View in All of Mexico
| June 11, 2009 at 2:07 PM | 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.
Do you ever wonder what kind of shenanigans you would get into if you wandered down to Mexico with a few of your friends and a few bucks, and no responsibilities to attend to except for drinking and getting into trouble? Eh, you probably wouldn't get into too many shenanigans because you'd probably end up in a Mexican jail.
Or maybe you'd end up at the Quality Inn, Aguascalientes, a room for which you'd shell out about $55 (USD) and end up with this view — which is what happened to jabbusch. What a bummer.
Rooms go up to $108 (USD) for a two queen-bed-suite, so you can pack all your friends into one and not have to worry about the view. Or you can land yourself in jail and not have to worry about finding a place to crash for the night.
[Photo: jabbusch]
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Room With an Anti-View: Hey Peter, What's Happening?
| June 4, 2009 at 11:27 AM | 3 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.
Yes, we loved the rooms at The Plaza and true, this view from room 1637 could be so much worse but still, it was strange to look out our window onto rows upon rows of office spaces.
We think the people in the offices have the better end of the stick here. What better way to take some time out of answering emails and writing TPS reports than by looking at The Plaza and possibly pants-less hotel guests?
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The View From Hotel Boheme Is Not a San Francisco Treat
| May 21, 2009 at 2:48 PM | 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.
Does Rice-A-Roni still call itself "The San Francisco Treat?" Because it's welcome to keep that slogan forever, since it certainly doesn't have much competition for that title — well, not from Hotel Boheme in San Francisco, anyway. More accurately, from the hotel's views: a San Francisco treat this is not.
This shot comes from Flickr user Dominus Vobiscum, who uploaded a whole album of interior and view shots of this San Fran hotel. Something like a 10 or 15-minute walk from Union Square, Fishermans Wharf and Chinatown, the hotel (according to some TripAdvisor reviews we read) has "staff that are fantastically helpful" — and one reviewer mentioned complimentary sherry at night (oooh, yes please).
Unfortuntely, this particular room's view totally sucks. Also, the rooms are on the smaller side — or so we seem to be reading over an over on most of these TA reviews — and the hotel has no AC. So hopefully, if you get stuck in this room, whatever that thing is hopefully isn't too loud if you've gotta leave your windows open. Rooms start at $174, and WiFi is free.
[Photo: DominusVobiscum]
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The Hotel Max Tries to Cover Up the Worst View in the House
| May 7, 2009 at 11:57 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.
Yesterday we showed you a video of our room at the The Hotel Max, which was lovely. But this wasn't the first room that we were given. We were first given a room on the second floor at the end of the hall which had a separate room for the toilet and a separate room for the shower, both of which you had to "step up" into. Yeah, it was weird.
But topping off the room's weirdness was this anti-view looking out onto god knows what.
We give the Max props for putting in windows that shield some of the nastiness; and even though we were staying for only one night, we still wanted a room that wasn't part of a dungeon. Hence, we asked the front desk and we received. Phew!
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Another Yummy Underwear-View Situation at The Cooper Square
| May 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM | 3 Comments
When the Cooper Square first opened, we saw panties in the window. The panty-view was part of what appeared to be some kind of in-room underwear shoot — but the panties stayed on (unlike a recent photoshoot at fellow trendy Manhattan newcomer The Standard, during which nothing except dirty shoes seemed to be staying on).
And the panties (or, um, gigantic briefs, we suppose) continue to stay on at the Cooper Square — but this time, they're stayin' on a clothesline...and you can see 'em from the bar terrace. Nice.
We nabbed this shot off of Flickr, which was posted by user carolvinzant who titled the photo: "Cooper Square Hotel Bar out my bedroom window. Notice clothesline." Yes, we noticed. Can't wait to sip margaritas and take in the yummy delicious view out there all summer long.
[Photo: carolvinzant]
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You Get the View You Pay For at Six Columbus
| April 30, 2009 at 1:55 PM | 1 Comment
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.
The "Pod Room" at Thompson's Six Columbus goes for about $190, while the slightly bigger Queen Superior room goes for about $215 these days.
But in the Pod Room you get this view. Which is not only particular un-viewlicious, but as the photographer, gone-walkabout, notes: "this HVAC duct gave Banshee like howls throughout the night." Oh noes. The worst.
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This Canadian Hotel is 'Not Exactly Couples Paradise'
| April 23, 2009 at 11:39 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.
Oh, goodness. This is not very nice. This hotel advertises itself on its website as Regina, Saskatchewan's "premier hotel for business or leisure." We would like to contend this claim; instead, we submit that this is the world's premier hotel for people watching and sort of nothing else.
This is a shot out the window of a hotel room (yes, a hotel room) at the Travelodge in Regina, Saskatchewan, taken by Flickr user emmerogers, who notes that this view makes the hotel "not exactly couples paradise." Uh, yeah. Agreed.
Anyway, this is a budget, family-friendly hotel, but it is not really conducive to, er, makin' the family grow, if you get our drift. It's got an on-site family restaurant, this indoor pool and waterslide complex and offers free parking, and rooms run around $139.00. Should you ever find yourself in Regina with the kiddies or a deep urge to people watch, why not go for it?
[Photo: emmerogers]
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A Not So 'Belle' View From Hilton Bellevue
| April 16, 2009 at 12:42 PM | 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.
We would be lying if we said that the opportunity to play with the words "belle" (French for pretty!), "view" and "Bellevue" did not influence our decision to select this shot from the Hilton Bellevue in Washington as this week's Anti-View. But whether it lends itself to clever headlines or not, this view is pretty poopy.
This comes to us via Flickr user kaufmans, who snapped this shot out the window of the Hilton Bellevue — an Eastern-Seattle area which, as you can see from the pretty trees just beyond the yucky roof with the puddle grossness, is actually quite a lovely place.
The hotel underwent a major renovation in 2006, and its 353 rooms claim to be "comfortably oversized." This is primarily marketed as a business/convention hotel, though kids 18 and under are allowed to stay for free. For adults, the rates start around $99.00.
[Photo: Kaufmans]
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