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Worst Anti-View: Up Against A Wall In Baltimore
It's what you've been waiting all year for--The 2011 HotelChatter Awards! We'll be bringing you the best and worst of the year all day today and part of tomorrow. Agree or disagree with our picks? Air your thoughts in the comments below.
We're not sure about you, but the first thing we always do when checking into a new hotel room is head for the window, throw open the curtains and take in the view. City views. Sunrise views. Views of the country. It really doesn't matter as long as we're high enough up that cars below turn into little dots on the ground.
And then sometimes, you get stuck with an anti-view like this one. After a prior positive experience getting a free upgrade at the Hotel Monaco Baltimore, we were suddenly confronted with this vista of cinder block, exhaust vents, and medieval-style window slits a mere 20 feet from her window.
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You're Definitely Not Paying for the View at the Ibis Heathrow
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 good news this week is that Accor Hotels Ibis Hotels is getting a much-needed brand makeover which will see an upgrade in hotel bedding, a reconfiguration of the common areas, better food and beverage offerings and some technology upgrades.
Sadly, that makeover won't be able to fix this anti-view at the Ibis Heathrow Airport.
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Kathy Griffin, What Are You Doing?
So, it was Friday afternoon. Another week of hotel news was over. We'd seen Facebook hotel rivalries, nationwide Hyatt strikes, and killer views in Vegas. But as we sat browsing our Twitter feed, what we weren't prepared for was this killer view, taken in a New York hotel room, of Kathy Griffin showing off her bangin' bod to a window washer.
Tweeted by @kathygriffin at around 6pm EST, the photo quickly went viral on the internet, even prompting a story by NY Daily News (headline: Kathy Griffin Parades Around In Sexy Bra And Underwear For Window). Guess Fashion Week doesn't have the same effect on everyone.
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You Get What You Pay for With This Portland Anti-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.
This is a classic case of "you get what you pay for." A stay at the Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon comes with the hipster cache that the other three Aces also enjoy, but oftentimes that means sacrificing things like valet parking and chocolates on your pillow at turndown. For rooms starting from $95 per night, however, that's completely understandable.
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Strip Views May Just Be A Mirage In These Swanky Vegas Suites
For once, you may not want to stay in the penthouse
We may have been unimpressed by our Strip view being obscured by Donny and Marie at the Flamingo Las Vegas, but we - and the Flamingo - aren't the only ones.
HotelChatter reader Stan contacted us to say that he felt for us, having experienced the same at the Mirage. Only problem is, he wasn't talking about a $45 room as we were. He was talking about a high falutin suite.
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Down in The 'Dungeon' at the Hotel Monaco Baltimore
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.
Ah...such a bummer. We love our Kimpton Hotels for their complimentary wine hour, quirky animal-print bathrobes and free WiFi (for InTouch members) but this view from the Hotel Monaco Baltimore, in the old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad HQ, has us feeling trapped in the dragon's dungeon in Super Mario Brothers. And despite our enthusiasm for Nintendo games, that's not a good thing.
But it's not all doom and gloom at this hotel. The Flickr member also took this shot from the hotel. Things are looking up already. Next up, World 2 underwater!
Rates at the Hotel Monaco start at around $209 a night. Before you book, read our in-depth hotel review, with a video tour, right here.
[Photo: Criminal Intent]
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Guess the Hotel with the Graffiti View
We're very excited to reveal the answer to this Guess the Hotel, because—to put it plainly—it's not your average hotel. But first, before we give you the goods with a video room tour and full photo gallery, we're going to test your hotel knowledge (or Googling abilities).
The rules are the same: put your best guess in comments below and then return tomorrow for the full room reveal.
For this Guess the Hotel, we're wondering if you can name the hotel with the view of the inoffensive graffiti. We're peering out of our room window here, and there are small visual clues as to the location, but here's some more hints for help:
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The Trade-off of Staying at a Hilton Garden Inn for Its Free WiFi
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 the internet charges at Hilton Hotels vary in price, you can usually count on their budget brand, Hilton Garden Inn, to offer up free WiFi. But the tradeoff? This anti-view from your room. Yeah, and the snow piles aren't doing much to help.
HotelChatter Flickr member Bnilsen dropped this in our Flickr pool last month and while we don't expect much from a suburban budget brand hotel, this view still put us in funk.
And the scene looking in wasn't that much better either.
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Worst Anti-View: The Depressing End of the Las Vegas Strip
It's what you've been waiting all year for--The 2010 HotelChatter Awards! We'll be bringing you the best and worst of the year all day today and part of tomorrow. Agree or disagree with our picks? Air your thoughts in comments below.
You either win big or lose big in Vegas and year after year, we find the same saying rings true for room views. Sometimes, you get a fabulous view of the Bellagio fountains and other times, you get to stare out at what is essentially Vegas dreams gone bust.
This was anti-view we got at the Encore Las Vegas. Granted we were high up on the 51st floor, but since we asked to be placed in a room away from the music blasting out of the Surrender nightclub, we were given a room with a view of the forlorn North end of the Strip. Here you can see what Vegas used to be and what Vegas hoped to be all in one shot.
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Why It Doesn't Always Pay to Stay in a High-Floor Vegas Hotel Room
Did you book the cheapest category room for your Las Vegas stay and the hotel refuses to give you a room above the fifth floor? Don't be too disheartened; just think of all those hotel rate high rollers who couldn't see squat for several days as low and heavy rain clouds set up residence on the Strip during the bad weather of late last week and earlier this week.
In fact, the foggy and horrid weather was so bad that you couldn't even tell what hotel was what unless you already knew your Vegas hotels, or were seeing them from street level; even their glitzy rooftop marquees didn't help.
Until yesterday at dawn, when the clouds lifted away completely and Vegas returned to its usually dry self. For the first time in many days, the residents of the prime upper floors could at last see something but a milky white opaqueness out their windows. Talk about an anti-view!
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This is What The Other End of the Strip Looks Like Now
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 enjoyed a very relaxing afternoon at the Encore Resort in Las Vegas. We took a little dip in the pool with a light snack from the Lobby Bar and Cafe, followed up with another soak in our bathtub, a bit of TV time and some magazine reading. Since we had to get to work at 5:30am the next morning, we turned out our lights at 10:30am. We know. So lame.
You're probably thinking---"C'mon HotelChatter, this is Vegas! Why don't we get wasted and power through a hangover the next morning." And you're totally right. We should have done that but "unforeseen circumstances" mandated that we not drink and that we get up on time.
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Meanwhile, Not Too Far From the Soho Grand....
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 had this view from room 306 at the Duane Street Hotel in Tribeca, approximately a four-minute cab ride away from the luscious suites at The Soho Grand.
Sure, this is New York and we could be staring at a brick wall or a dirty air shaft. We're probably lucky that we have a view at all, especially for the rate we paid of $159 a night. But still, the odd assortment of shops on Church Street (wide feet shoes and Domino's anyone?), which looked closed most of the time, had us a bit depressed. Maybe our next series should be Hotels Under $200 with Killer Views of Manhattan. Any suggestions?
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