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 McCamly Plaza Hotel in Battle Creek, Michigan has just spent $3 million on renovations : new beds, new linen, new bathroom amenities. But unfortunately none of that will change this mighty unpleasant anti-view. In another picture in her series from this trip, traveler Rrrrred was optimistic enough to see a patch of blue and say "The sky was nice, at least."
The McCamly Plaza is well-located if you're headed for the Kellogg Arena or the Kellogg's World HQ; there's also tons of shopping and dining spots surrounding it. Therefore: bad views. Average rates around $110 don't seem to promise better views so it's something McCamly Plaza visitors will have to live with.
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 perhaps a satellite dish manufacturer might be interested in having a view like this out of their hotel room window, but we're guessing most people would be closing those curtains up tight. This anti-view comes from the Charterhouse Hotel in the Wanchai district of Hong Kong.
The Charterhouse is basically just a budget hotel, but it's popular because it has a really convenient location. In fact, the good location is pretty much the only feature that previous guests consistently talk about, because other than that, it's not the most attractive place--although the Business floor and the S Signature floor do look neat and modern (but are no longer really a budget price).
The cheapest, standard rooms have a rate of around $80 a night; for HK$1,150 (US$150) you can get a renovated "S Classic" room including breakfast and free use of broadband in your room. Just don't look outside.
A while back Amy Langfield from NewYorkology headed off to Prague and went through a little bit of drama pre-flight with Tablet Hotels about her lodging situation. But as we told you back then, everything worked out ok and Amy and family was sent to a nice suite at the Alchymist Grand Hotel & Spa.
Since today is Killer/Anti-View day, we thought it fitting to post these views from her suite.
The above view is the Killer View from the kids room. While it's mostly buidlings, you can see the castle jutting out in the far background. So what kind of view did the master bedroom aka the parents' room have? Click after the jump to see.
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.
With a name as grand sounding as the Royal Orchid Golden Suites, you'd expect something quite magnificent when you were heading here in Pune, a city in the Maharashtra region of India. Unfortunately, at least one of the rooms has a view like this.
This is really a pity, because from all reports the gang at the Royal Orchid Golden Suites treat their guests very well and it's one of the most popular hotels in Pune. Average rates are something around $125 a night, and for that rate in this city we'd be hoping for a better view, so check the room before you check in.
That little ol' hotel in the center of the Cosmo construction is the Jockey Club
Since the Cosmopolitan has been in the news lately, we've seen alot of pictures of how the site looks and one thing we've noticed - the Jockey Club, which is a timeshare hotel - is being surrounded on three sides by the Cosmopolitan. We're not talking about a parking lot, or grove of trees, or a pool - we're talking about 10-story high concrete walls.
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.
There are only 19 rooms at the Hotel Durant in Aspen, Colorado. And one of them, at least, has this horrid view. That means the odds of getting stuck with this anti-view are pretty good so make sure you ask before you spend your days staring up out of jail.
Apart from the view from some bottom floor rooms, Hotel Durant doesn't seem such a bad option. It's very central, and has average rates of around $130 which isn't too bad for Aspen. The main thing that bothers us (other than this view) is their website slogan: "The Aspen hotel to stay in!" We're just not sure that's actually a sentence.
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.
Maybe we're not being fair to Glasgow's ABode Hotel. First, we complained that its enviable rooms aren't up to enviable standard, and we also whined about its weird capitalization thing.
And now we're slamming an Anti-View tag on it, although that's pretty well deserved when you see this pretty shocking view over an awful air vent system and some dirty walls.
However, Glasgow fans tell us that the ABode has a funky bar and is in a good location, so it ain't all bad. They've got bed and breakfast deals going for £75 (US$145) a room at the moment (in a Comfortable-level room) but we're presuming these cheaper deals run you the risk of getting stuck with this 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.
Ok, this has to be one of the craziest anti-views we have ever encountered. We have seen frosted windows before, nothing new there. However, the Embassy Suites LAX South took it up a notch by frosting the one big giant feature window in room 247.
Yup, completely frosted. So tell us El Segundo Embassy Suites, what exactly were you hiding behind that frosted glass?
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