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Whatever They're Planning, It Better Not Be Another Westin Times Square Eyesore

Where: 212 E 42nd St , New York, NY, 10017

Two weeks ago, we learned that Host Hotels had purchased the New York Helmsley and was planning on re-making it into a Westin. Now, we find out that $65 million is being poured into the building for what they're calling an "extensive re-branding initiative."

Fine. The part that gets us, though, is when they mention that the entire facade of the building is gonna be transformed as well. Ah, real monsters! We desperately hope Westin isn't sketching out a repeat of their purple-and-blue stripey Times Square mess (which we once upon a time dubbed one of the ugliest hotels alive). For a 774-room hotel in midtown Manhattan, we're not sure what kind of "statement" Westin will be going for, but hopefully nothing big. A nice scrub-down and maybe some window replacements should do the trick nicely.

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There's a Delaware Hotel That Tries and Fails to Look Like the White House

Where: 34521 Postal Lane [map], Rehoboth, DE, United States, 19971

While driving down the highway on the way to the popular Delaware weekend destination of Rehoboth Beach, you'll end up passing a stream of Comfort Inns, Rodeway Inns and various other "Inns," but it's this one that caught our eye.

First, it was the "Best Buy on the HWY" sign that made us turn our heads, but then the faux-White House structure set just back from the highway had us intrigued. It looked like some sort of dressed up old brick apartment building, and yet it was a Golf Club as well as a hotel?

This, the Heritage Inn and Golf Club, where nightly rates starts at $129 during the summer, is a perfect example of the type of accommodation that appears every so often along the East Coast highways.

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YES! There's a Facebook Support Group for Fugly Hotel Carpeting

At one point, this was the carpeting at the Foxwoods Cedar Casino (and it may still be!)

While we're on the subject of ugly hotels, let us get back to our first ugly love--Fugly Hotel Carpeting.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that for years and years and years hotels installed bewildering, dizzying, headache-inducing and downright scary carpeting in their public spaces (and sometimes in the rooms!) so as to distract guests from stains, spills and unsavory remnants of accidents, bodily or otherwise.

Fortunately, as we head into the second decade of the new millennium, hotels have found a way to incorporate "whimsical" yet eye pleasing design into their carpet choices. See some examples of that here.

But just in case you come across some god-awful carpeting (believe us, there is still plenty of that out there) you can commiserate with others in this Facebook "support" group: People Who Believe Hotels Have the Ugliest Carpets.

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HotelChatter's 10 Ugliest Hotels Alive!

Yesterday we brought you the 10 Sexiest Hotel Rooms Alive! but where there is sexy, there is sometimes not so sexy. Sometimes, there is just downright ugly. And we thought you should know where.

So we've rounded up the 10 Ugliest Hotels Alive! Now, not all of these hotels are ugly on the inside so you can't always judge a hotel room by its questionable exterior architecture. Also, we know beauty is in the eye of the beholder so feel free to differ with us. Just do it in comments below.

Now, brace yourselves as we begin the ugly list. Feel free to grip your mouse for moral support.

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What is the Ugliest Building in New York?

Where: 270 West 43rd Street [map], New York, ny, United States, 10036

[Update: Looks like a G'skip commenter agrees with us. We feel you PAR.]

The good folks over at Gridskipper asked a bunch of building aficionados, "What is the ugliest building in Manhattan".

The panel has some great answers, but we think they missed the ugliest building in New York--The Westin Times Square. Maybe we just have a hotel bias--ya think?

The actual fugliness of this building may get mistaken for virtual ugliness, since it is in Times Square, however, to prove its innate unattractiveness we present the above photo.

[Photo: Wired New York]

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