Tag: Flickr View All Tags
Tags: Anti-View / Flickr / Snapshot / Seattle Hotels / Budget Hotels / → All Tags
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]
Tags: Anti-View / Flickr / Snapshot / Days Inn Hotels / Toronto Hotels / → All Tags
A Budget Hotel in Toronto With an Appropriately-Budget 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.
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]
Tags: Anti-View / Flickr / Snapshot / Mexico Hotels / Choice Hotels / → All Tags
The Saddest Non-Jail View in All of Mexico
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]
Tags: Snapshot / Hotel Lobbies / Hotel Openings / Kimpton Hotels / Flickr / → All Tags
Kimpton Lobbies Have Been Lookin' Mighty Sexy Lately
Yo, Kimpton: we've gotta tell you something. We've been seriously impressed with your lobby-looks lately. We were kinda blown away by the lobby renovations you did at Muse New York (check out the video here if you haven't seen it through our eyes), and as we were wading through a vast and unvaried sea of boring hotel shots on Flickr, we we were struck by another one of your sexy lobby designs.
We're loving Kamikarin's Flickr set full of pics of the Hotel Palomar Atlanta — which (hooray!) opened on time — and we're totally diggin' the lobby look.
Tags: Hotel Amenities / Jamaica Hotels / Flickr / → All Tags
Jamaica and a Stocked Hotel Liquor Cabinet? Yes, Please
It's Friday! In other words, we’ve been ready for the weekend for about four days now. And hell if we couldn’t go for a laidback jaunt to Jamaica right about now, especially if this delightful amenity was to greet us in our hotel room — which it would, if we were to stay at Riu Ocho Rios Hotel.
As the date stamp concedes, this photo isn’t exactly new, but it still stopped us in our tracks while browsing the ol’ HotelChatter Flickr pool.
Says Flickr user His Naima:
The bottles are full when you arrive (the liquor is free), and the refrigerator is stocked with mixers of water, soda, tonic, juice, etc. (also free). This is a cool amenity, since all the bars on the property close at 10pm!
Brilliant.
[Photo: His Naima]
Tags: Hotel WiFi / Toronto Hotels / Snapshot / Flickr / → All Tags
Le Germain Toronto's Free WiFi is 'Blazing Fast'
Well, we don't know when we can expect Thompson Toronto (our guess is that it won't be opening its doors anytime soon), but whenever it does arrive, we're not so sure we're going to be jumping at the chance to stay there over the comparably-chic Le Germain — if only for the WiFi situation.
Tags: San Francisco Hotels / Hotels With Recording Studios / Flickr / → All Tags
Simple Is The Name of the Game at San Fran's Mosser Hotel
The Mosser Hotel in San Francisco put itself on the map because it's the only hotel in the The City by the Bay with its very own recording studio. Studio Paradiso is perfect for musicians to roll through and lay down a couple tracks (and it has open studio happy hours with free drinks, so maybe we'd even record something), but the somewhat teensy rooms aren't suited for rockstars or divas.
But you're not a rockstar — and you're probably pretty stingy with the ol' pursestrings right now, so take another look at this spot. We were cruising Flickr and found this snapshot and a mini-review from super-satisfied guest caribb:
Perfect for me who would be sleeping getting up going out for the day and coming back only to just sleep the night through again. It was clean, quiet, simple in style with all the necessary hotel amenities plus the best location I could have asked for. The downtown Mariott was across the street at probably 3 times the price. Hotel staff were very friendly and helpful too... so anyone going to San Francisco and wanting to stay downtown without paying a fortune try this place at 54-4th Street.
Rooms with a single bed and a shared bath start at only $55.00, and a deluxe queen (private bathroom and a queen bed) will run you an easy $89.00.
[Photo: Caribb]
Tags: Marriott Hotels / Flickr / Fairfield Inn / Twitter / Hotel News / Hotel Renovations / → All Tags
Marriott's Fairfield Inn Brand Gets a Fly New Look
If you walk some of Marriott's Fairfield Inn properties, you may start to notice that some of them have a fly new look. We got word from the Marriott Twitter that the brand is getting a bit of a makeover to lend a bright, contemporary look to the hotel's spaces.
The refreshed lobbies will have lots of room for seating and socializing, plus a significantly breezier, more upbeat look, with blues, greens and reds dominating the decor. The yummy-looking complimentary breakfast offerings might put Fairfield in the running for the best budget hotel breakfasts we've been discussing lately, with "delicious breakfast sandwiches and healthy items like fruit, yogurt and whole grain cereals" (anyone tried these? Let us know!)
Tags: Anti-View / Amsterdam Hotels / Flickr / Sofitel Hotels / → All Tags
A Grand View of Glam Patio Furniture From Sofitel Amsterdam
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 always hesitate just a little bit when we post an Anti-View from a hotel in a big city. After all, it's a city and, with buildings right up next to each other and not a whole lotta flex room when it comes to selecting real estate, you're bound to see stuff outside your hotel room window that's not exactly Killer View material — people's houses, people having parties, people in other hotels, etc.
And yet. While the dreaded anti-views are more understandable in big cities, such conditions don't change the fact that they're still craptastic views that you don't want to see outside your expensive hotel room.
Tags: Guidebooks / Hotel Reviews / Flickr / → All Tags
Guidebook Says 'Style', Flickr Member Says 'Check Out Rainbow Bedspread'
We know that hotel guidebooks have encountered some controversy as of late as is evidenced by this quote that sums up the tensions between guidebook publishers and writers quite succintly, "They pay * * * *, they get * * * *."
Even our post this morning on LonelyPlanet's Haystack booking service generated a comment about the "good intentions" behind the site. Which is why when we stumbled across this photo on Flickr today from a hotel in Italy, we found the caption to be very apropro for this discussion:
Lonely Planet says this hotel is decorated with an eye for style. Plus the hotel ripped us off.
Hmmm...eye for style from a 9-yr-old's perspective, perhaps? Either that or the guidebook writer for Italy got paid * * * *.
When your guidebook said luxury rooms did they really mean two cots and a bathroom down the hall? Contribute your own thoughts on guidebook reviews of hotels by becoming a member and commenting below.
Related Stories:
· Bootsinthe Oven [Flickr]
· Can you trust your guidebook for hotel recommendations? [HotelChatter]
· Lonely Planet's Haystack Finding (Hostel) Needles [HotelChatter]
Tags: Gansevoort South / Hotel Construction / Miami Beach Hotels / Flickr / → All Tags
Gansevoort South Not Exactly Getting Love from the Locals
Unless defacing a billboard with the words "Slut", "I would hit it" and indecipherable gang tags is what Miami locals consider love. And of course we already mentioned their disdain for "Calvinization."
We'll see how people respond when Gansevoort South opens sometime later this year.
Check out more of the photos in the HotelChatter Flickr group here. And contribute any of your favorite hotel photos so that all the world can see! Plus, Flickr is totally safer than MySpace.
Tags: Love Hotels / Hotel Sex / Flickr / Japanese Love Hotels / → All Tags
Love Hotels Offer Hair Care Products and Budweiser Costumes
Japanese Love Hotels give us practically an endless supply of hotel stories. Like this photo captured by a Flickr member at a love hotel in Shibuya:
These are some of the amenities provided by a love hotel in Shibuya. At first I thought they were advertising dildos and vibrators (upper left hand corner), but then realized that they're probably innocent hair care products.
However, should you feel the need to dress up like a can of Budweiser, the Costume Play Goods Rental in the lower right corner should be of good service.
Related Stories:
· House of Wong's photostream [Flickr]
· What It's Really Like Inside Those Japanese Love Hotels [HotelChatter]
Hotels In: Africa | Asia | Australia | Caribbean | Europe | North America | South America
Our Publications:
Jaunted | HotelChatter | VegasChatter
