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Crappy Views from My Hotel Room

Old Aug 3, 2021, 12:41 am
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Crappy Views from My Hotel Room

I mostly, unfortunately, don't get to go to exotic locales and receive hotel rooms with marvelous views.

As a business traveller, I get the room I get and it usually isn't something spectacular - either in what the room offers or the view it has. But I take the shot anyway.

In honor of those less than satisfactory hotel room views, here are a few:

Dulles Marriott (Virginia), 2018:


Morrison House (Virginia), 2017:


Fairfield Inn Moscow (Idaho), 2021:


But who's complaining...

Any FT photographers have better/worse ones?

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Old Aug 3, 2021, 12:45 am
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I LIKE this!
Was that last one a fine view of...an Auto parts place?
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Old Aug 3, 2021, 3:00 pm
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I LIKE this!
Was that last one a fine view of...an Auto parts place?
Yup - AutoZone.

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Old Aug 3, 2021, 4:59 pm
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Dang,, wish I had taken a picture of my view from Gild Hall. I had a great view of a rubble pile on the left and the entrance to the Four Points Downtown NYC on the right.
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View from the Hampton Inn Arcadia in 2016, looks like they built a covered entrance afterwards and screwed a handful of rooms out of a view of the lovely 210
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Not quite as in your face as the Hampton Inn construction, but here's one from Baltimore where the only view is the parking structure for the property next door.

Inn at the Colonnade (DoubleTree) (Maryland), 2019:


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DoubleTree IAD/Sterling, 2020:



Even though this was the 1st hotel I stayed at after COVID-19 began, it still felt like a jail for some reason...

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Old Sep 20, 2021, 1:57 am
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Originally Posted by allset2travel
That's a lot of cranes.

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That's a lot of cranes.

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Yes. For a while I thought I was in China (clear sky excepted of course).
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This is my favorite. I present the view from my room at the Surrey in NYC. How this room (at >$1000/night) is even in the inventory at a 5* hotel on the upper east side is puzzling.
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Old Sep 23, 2021, 12:47 am
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Originally Posted by mike_la_jolla
This is my favorite. I present the view from my room at the Surrey in NYC. How this room (at >$1000/night) is even in the inventory at a 5* hotel on the upper east side is puzzling.
Did you keep the room or ask for another one with a decent view?

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Old Sep 23, 2021, 11:02 am
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Surrey NYC. - room with glorious view of AC ducts ...

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Did you keep the room or ask for another one with a decent view?

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We did, but we were told that would put us in different class of room, adding $600/night. We stayed, but we'll never return to the Surrey. Frankly the Mark just a few feet away is so good that it isn't an issue. I remain shocked that a hotel in this class would consider this dark broom closet a 'room' capable of generating revenue.
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Originally Posted by DELee
Not quite as in your face as the Hampton Inn construction, but here's one from Baltimore where the only view is the parking structure for the property next door.

Inn at the Colonnade (DoubleTree) (Maryland), 2019:


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I've stayed here, but they gave me a room on a high floor and the view was fine. We had a block of rooms for a group of about thirty people for a small meeting. I don't remember anyone complaining about the hotel or their rooms.
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The Dan Tel Aviv. This is not a photoshop. I'm ocean front in Tel Aviv, and this is what I got:



And, for those of you that haven't been to Israel, you DON'T complain and ask for a better room. That... would be a mistake.
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