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Dublin Strikes Again with a Hotel 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 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 rather grim view was what greeted hotel fan uggboy during a stay at The Crowne Plaza Hotel Dublin-Northwood. We know—when you think of Ireland, you think of rolling green hills, or lovely seaside cliffs. Not, um, bland brick walls.
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Not Much Daylight Shines Through at This Days Inn
Ed. Note: Usually we do these feature on Thursdays but we couldn't get to it yesterday.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.
Flickr Member James Kendall took this snapshot of the room view at the Days Inn Wetherby in England saying:
The nice building opposite it the service station. It wasn't very pretty. That's all.
On the bright side, the rooms are new as it just opened in June 2009. It's also close the Wetherby racecourses. Ok, that doesn't really help but we bet free WiFi, a pets allowed policy and room rates of 49 pounds a night takes out the sting of that anti-view.
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Lovely View of the HVAC at InterContinental San Francisco
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 morning we let you know that the chef at the Intercontinental San Francisco would be leaving the property to fight it out on "The Next Iron Chef" and as we were browsing for photos of the hotel, we came across this anti-view. Eee.
Then again, this hotel is adjacent to the Moscone Convention Center, making it the best choice for folks who plan on spending most of their days in the convention hall. But as large as the hotel looks, there are only 550 rooms in the hotel--22 per floor and as you know, InterContinental is a chi-chi business traveler brand.
So hopefully, the amenities in-room--like flat-screen TVs, iPod docks, bathrobes and especially, the private in-room bars--make up for some not-so-chi-chi convention center views.
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Disney's Dolphin Hotel Shows Guests the Magical World of Bus Stops
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.
When superstar athletes win big championship games, the TV cameras always (infamously) ask them, "Where are you going?" and said champions always answer, "I'm going to Disney World!". But they may rethink their answer if they ever see the view from the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel in Orlando.
HotelChatter Flickr Pool, member Teruterubouzu writes in:
Our standard room had a lovely view -- of the bus stop. We didn't get a magical upgrade to a balcony room with resort view this time around. That said, it was recently refurbished, very conveniently located and we got a great room rate.
Still, that bus stop sees some action. Like every 15 minutes when guests pile on and ride off to the Disney Resorts. On the bright side, we guess this room view helps that you know exactly when the bus is coming. Rates start at $149 a night.
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A Building's Exterior and Random Statues Do Not Make For a Pretty 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.
Wow. Talk about disappointing. A HotelChatter Flickr member dropped in this shot of the view from their room at the Westin Melbourne saying:
Crappy view of wall. The statues were something to look at at least.
Hmmm...we're having a hard time focusing on the statues because there's just so much wall in this shot.
We actually passed up staying at this hotel a while back because the hotel charged for WiFi in the guestrooms. Guess we'll have to stay away because of the view as well. But they do have a pretty website if that counts for anything!
[Photo: Vissi87/HotelChatter Flickr Pool]
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The Paradise Tower Paved Paradise and Showed Guests a Parking Garage
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 really hate to do two of the same anti-views in a row but this one from the Hard Rock Hotel's new Paradise Tower is worse than last week's construction eyesore.
A recent guest sent us these photos, which not only show the crap view that some rooms get of the Employee Parking lot but also just how much wear and tear the hotel rooms have suffered--and the hotel just opened on July 31st!
The disappointed guest writes:
I checked into a room at the new Paradise Tower at the Hard Rock yesterday, and found it to be a prefect specimen for your "anti-view" segment. Though I’ve never taken photos of a hotel room before, this one I couldn’t resist.
The room number was 30521. It was supposed to be a "mountain/ city view," but I’d categorize it as an "employee parking lot view," or, "some random guy’s Dodge Ram view." They have draconian policies (like a $100 an hour charge for late check-outs beyond 11AM), and they really don’t keep the place up (the old tower is in shambles).
Frankly, the only reason to even consider staying there is to go to Rehab (their Sunday pool party). Otherwise, the place is ridiculously expensive and has horrible service and food options.
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'Paradise' As Seen From The Hard Rock's Paradise Tower
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.
Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, home to the world's largest gathering of anti-views in one single city. So we're not really surprised that this was the view from The Hard Rock's Paradise Tower but it was kind of a bummer, considering how sweet how rooms were. (The rest of the hotel we could do without.)
Our room, 738 on the seventh floor, was at the corner of the tower which afforded us views of this and facing the strip, which is a few miles away. That view also had some construction immediately in front of the hotel but once you looked past that, it turned into a killer view.
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The View From This Madrid Ibis is Ibusted
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.
Things to see in Madrid: see a game at Bernabeu Stadium. Picasso's Guernica. The Plaza Mayor. The Royal Palace.
Things that can be seen from Room 18 of the Ibis Madrid, Valentin Beato: this.
This was shot by that_james and was posted to Flickr — granted, this particular hotel is "5.6 miles from the Sol district in the city center," according to the website, so maybe there's not a whole lot around here to see.
But we suppose you get what you pay for: this 128-room hotel (it has all "new rooms with air conditioning") will cost you 76.32 USD a night — or $69.26 if you want to book with a no change, no cancellation policy.
[Photo: that_james]
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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]
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(Bath)Room With an Anti-View: We're Not Sure We're Okay With This
This could be a Killer View, we suppose, depending on how you look at it. This is the view from the urinals in the public men's room at 21C Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. And those are real people. And they could be you!
Alright, we get it. 21C is an art in a hotel that dually functions as a public art museum but its "gender-specific latent exhibitionist fetish features" within the lobby bathrooms are a topic we've discussed before, and now that we're seeing a real (read: non-PR) shot of the view from in the little boys' room, we're not so sure we're okay with this.
Allow is to explain what's going on here:
The men's restroom has a two-way mirror that allows users of a long urinal to contemplate passers-by outside the restroom. Both the men's and women's restrooms have tiny LCD screens displaying a multitude of different, open eyes in the mirror above the sink area that make washing up or primping a communal affair.
Dudes peeing in urinals while looking at us. Does that not make you a wee bit uncomfortable? Think about it. Really.
Anyway, rooms here start around $185 if you're interested in booking your own private bathroom without these exhibitionist features.
[Photo: gregverdino]
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Iced Out Of a Killer View in Iceland
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
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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