New Zealand traveller shocked to find hotel view is actually a livestream from the roof on the TV
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Traveler who thought she had scored the ultimate bargain when she booked a ‘room with a view’ at a budget hotel is shocked to discover that not all is as it seems
- A traveler had hundreds of stitches for sharing her hilarious hotel blunder
- Miriam, from Wellington, NZ, thought she booked a budget room with a view
- But found out that the ‘view’ was a live stream from the hotel roof on the TV?
- Only some rooms of the hotel have a view, while all have access to the live stream
- Miriam said she wasn’t bothered by the confusion and thought it was hilarious
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A young traveler thought she was getting the deal of her life when she found a budget hotel with scenic views, but was shocked to discover a catch upon arrival.
Miriam, from Wellington, New Zealand, checked into her room at the Mi-Pad Hotel in Queenstown and found that the supposed view was actually a live TV stream from a rooftop camera.
She shared the hilarious mix-up on Twitter, garnering dozens of amused responses, saying she “had to laugh” at the “view,” but didn’t mind because of the affordable room rate.
A New Zealand traveler was left in stitches after discovering the ‘views’ she thought she was promised in a budget hotel, just a live stream from the roof on the room’s TV
“We booked a room with a view in Queenstown and it was a LIVESTREAM of the view from the top floor,” Miriam wrote in the tweet with some smiling emojis.
Each room in the budget residence has access to the live stream camera that shows the expansive view of the nearby lake surrounding the mountains that can be seen from the shared roof terrace.
The Kiwi told the NZ Heraldher friend and traveling companion had booked the room because of the advertised ‘mountain view, lake view, city view’ on the listing.
According to the Mi-Pad website, some of the Queen Deluxe rooms have “options for scenic Remarkables Mountains or scenic views of Lake Wakatipu.”
“There was a view of the back road, so fair to them I guess,” Miriam added on the Twitter thread.
Every room at the Mi-Pad Hotel has access to the live stream camera that shows the expansive view of the nearby lake surrounding the mountains that can be seen from the roof terrace
Some were outraged by the ‘cheeky’ description of the hotel, while others could see the funny side.
“That’s the next level. Literally,’ one woman laughed.
“It certainly wasn’t a bad watercolor of Mt Cook,” another joked.
“That’s a good thing for ‘I want my money back,'” said a third, but Miriam was happy to pay and said she hardly spent any time in the room seeing the sights of Queenstown.
‘I think there was a super deluxe room that must have been the right view! We also have a window with a dull view. I laughed and it was cheap,’ she replied.
One traveler said she enjoyed staying at the same hotel and that her husband would be in a dinosaur onesie within view of the livestream camera to amuse other guests.