Website Exposes Fake Hotel Photos

Hotels in general are vile. I've worked round the back of too many to ever want to go through the front and pay.

Unfortunately when you travel, they're kind of a necessity. Hotels are better than sleeping under a bridge, that's for sure ...

"it was literally the size of a closet!"

No, it wasn't.

Alex - we usually camp or stay with friends. These days we can probably find friends within 50 miles of almost anywhere we care to stay in the UK and, come to think of it, quite large bits of Europe, too.

In Russia, the hotel I stayed at was spartan in some ways, but immaculate. American hotels always feel slightly scuzzy to me. The Mayflower in Wash DC is pretty excellent though.

" Have you ever went..." ? Those of us who write English tend to say " Have you ever gone...?
Now I go.
Yesterday I went.
Sometimes I have gone.

BOPH is an extremely old hotel. Virtually every room is different. I think Alex got a short straw.

I had a pretty small room in the BOPH, but it's not like I was throwing a party for 100 of my closest friends in it, so who cared?

My complaint about the BOPH was that it's not sufficiently sound-proofed. But this is true for many downtown hotels -- at five a.m. you're awakened to the lovely sound of garbage trucks.

I travel extensively and have stayed in MANY hotels. I too have stayed at the BOPH and found the room to be not much bigger than my walk in closet. My jaw dropped when I walked into that room and saw how incredibly tiny it was. I just checked the website and they have rooms called "Petite Singles" with a bed and for only one person. Had to be what I got.

Don't always believe what you see from marketing. :(

I just had a presentation of the Spanish company InteriorVista : they are designing fake interior pictures, for example fake kitchen pictures for Ikea. They looked AMAZINGLY real.
So why not a fake spotless bedroom? I think you'll be surprized at tomorrow's pictures.

@Frank de Paola - you're absolutely right! And I knew that, but obviously made a grammatical error. Fixed now.

My BOPH story is actually a little bit more than just about a small room. Now, the room WAS very small. How small? How about you can't close the bathroom door if the front door was open. Or that you could almost touch both of the walls with your arms stretched out?

It was very late when we checked in and when we saw the size of the room, my wife and I talked to the front desk. We got the room changed by a really nice lady, but about half an hour later, the night manager nixed the change saying that there was no more room left at the hotel. Everything was sold out, he rudely said and then refused to talk to us. We tried to argue (we had booked it through hotels.com - which was a cheaper price. Hotels.com refused to back us up on it - incidentally that was the last time I used the website). By then it was 2:30AM and we got too tired and slept. At 6AM, the lovely sound of jackhammers woke us up.

I talked to the day manager, and got us changed to a different room (sold out? What sold out? There were plenty of rooms). I ended up extending my stay at the BOPH because my trip lasted longer than expected.

Now, this was several years ago, but I still remember the experience and won't stay there ever again.

Just to add to the marketing aspect,there are companies that specialize in providing all those beautiful stock photos of people,places,and things that you see when you visit a website.By the way Alex,I don't know how credible the story was,but I read on howstuffworks.com last week that those few great minds recently met (in California,I think),and have declared that we have now moved into the period of Web 3.0.Thanks for the post though.This information will be useful for a long time to come.