r/travel • u/AutoModerator • Oct 11 '18
Discussion r/travel Topic of the Week: Rooms with a view!
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Show us your favourite photos of your 'rooms with a view'! You don't need to take this too literary: it's fine if you took them from your tent, your hotel balcony, or the hostel bar patio too.
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u/sheshnag Germany Oct 12 '18
View from my Airbnb balcony of Florence Duomo.
The airbnb had a nice 180 view of florence, I am only showing the Duomo view.
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u/corialis total tourist Oct 15 '18
Is that a filter or does the Duomo actually have those strong dark lines making it look sketched?
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u/rach11 Oct 11 '18 edited Oct 11 '18
View from our room in Istanbul last year. The hotel is the Arcadia Blue Istanbul. We found a reasonably cheap deal for it at the time ($100 per night).
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u/TheWorstMedic Oct 11 '18
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u/makanimike third culture kid Oct 12 '18
nice! you mind sharing the name of the place/s?
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u/TheWorstMedic Oct 12 '18
Sure, the Riomaggiore room is an Airbnb under Ai Pesci 201. The Costa Rica one is the Arenal Observatory Lodge.
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u/ClydeFrog1313 Washington, DC Oct 15 '18
Stayed in Arenal Observatory lodge last year. We got about 10 minutes of a clear view of the top of the volcano, otherwise it looked just like your picture.
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u/rosweed Colorado Oct 12 '18
We were in London two weeks ago. My wife surprised me for my birthday with my daughters awaiting me on board The Harpy houseboat on the Thames. This was our view.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t5cjHANbcijU2EojdbDRxkojb7JP2su5/view?usp=sharing
We also stayed in Malta and this was the view from our balcony.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zIBXo5fbaltxQ0F_dxJ7sMJCmrqGotIg/view?usp=sharing
And one more for the Airbnb we stayed in in Vittoria, Sicily.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ym-ox17xtfyOmmYKFIobz5TfWkSu1ime/view?usp=sharing
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u/Iminlovewithsweden Oct 13 '18
Stayed in Positano, Italy (Amalfi coast) twice. The first time we had this view. The second time (two years later) we had this view. I loved them both (obviously), but I particularly enjoyed the second one.
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u/swollencornholio Airplane! Oct 15 '18
Going in april...mind listing the second ones information?
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u/queenjacko Canada Oct 16 '18
I’d love the info too!
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u/Iminlovewithsweden Oct 25 '18
I wasn't sure if you'd gotten the notification as I already replied to another user here, but we stayed at Hotel Palazzo Talamo in Positano. The rooms are really small (standard rooms are 10 m²), but the view is amazing! I just wish I'd had a better camera with me.
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u/Iminlovewithsweden Oct 25 '18
Sorry for the late reply. It's Hotel Palazzo Talamo in Positano. The rooms are small (standard double rooms are 10 m²) but the view is incredible! I couldn't get enough of it, really! I woke up at 6 am just to see the sunrise! The hotel itself is very clean and the lady at the reception was super nice!
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u/swollencornholio Airplane! Oct 26 '18
Did the rooms have an en-suite restroom or was there a common one you had to use?
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u/Rowanbuds Oct 15 '18
Las Vegas. Cosmopolitan. 26th floor. Corner Suite with wrap-around balcony.
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u/corialis total tourist Oct 11 '18
Osaka 1 - Osaka 2 There's nothing interesting in these photos to most people, but to me, the view blew my mind. Where I come from, the tallest building is 277 ft (or 27 stories) and there aren't many high rises. And now I want to know how people from huge cities with a bajillion high rises feel when they go to farm country for the first time lol.
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u/swollencornholio Airplane! Oct 15 '18
Hallstatt @ Hallstatt Hideaway - https://streamable.com/yswyo
Eiger Selfness Hotel, Grindelwald, Switzlerand - https://i.imgur.com/zMsAgWU.jpg
Villa Alegria, Pedregal, Cabo San Lucas - https://i.imgur.com/Y1X9WSp.jpg
Casa Magia, Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico - https://i.imgur.com/suGCUYL.jpg
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u/valeyard89 197 countries/254 TX counties/50 states Oct 16 '18
Desert Camp, Sesirem, Namibia: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4677/26254613268_97e8617cec_h.jpg
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u/CheeseWheels38 CAN --> FRA/KAZ Oct 16 '18
This is the best view I've had, at the Refuge Adèle Planchard in the French Alps. At 3129 m, it's one of the higher refuges in the Alps, after a beautiful hike from the parking lot near the Col de Lautaret.
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u/IAmMexico United States Oct 13 '18
I booked this room last year after seeing it recommended on this sub. We paid €285 Euro for 3 nights total. Hôtel du Château, Annecy, France. Room number in the comments of the original post.
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u/noahsilv Oct 16 '18
Yangshuo, China. $10 a night https://imgur.com/9n0pfcn.jpg
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u/onelittleworld Chicagoland, USA Oct 11 '18 edited Oct 11 '18
The Inn at Stalheim, Norway:
https://onelittleworld.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-2/p211404769-5.jpg
EDIT: Also...
Oia Suites, Santorini:
https://onelittleworld.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-2/p787472099-5.jpg
View from tent, start of day 2, Inca Trail, Peru:
https://onelittleworld.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-2/p129851417-5.jpg
Villa Borobudur, Central Java:
https://onelittleworld.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-2/p1280212217-5.jpg