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| - "I need some air." You know you're a true claustrophobic if you're just sitting there needing to escape to crack a window. Claustrophobia, let me explain it simply, isn't always to the degree of needing to huff a brown paper bag to snap back into reality; it's feeling like the walls are inching closer to you like the garbage compactor in Star Wars (you better put Leia first, Luke!), and you just need to get outside, or crack a window. I am one who often suffers from this... having to crack windows constantly, step out for fresh air and seek out places to be which have high ceilings or have enough space. It's not always about being cramped around people, even the emptiest of spaces can squeeze in. And that's where LHotel comes in as the place that creates a room where no window-cracking or paper bags are necessary. Those high ceilings (floor to ceiling windows!) rest all of my nerves and I could stay in this room all weekend.
Unabashedly, they do their thing here. There's art everywhere, there's a phone in front of the toilet saying, "you know you just want to pick it up because you can," and there's art everywhere. It's a hyperreal place, somuchso you walk outside and there's a movie or photo shoot. It's walkable to anything for a 48 hour jaunt to the city. It's affordable. The mark of a good hotel is after your stay you say to yourself: damn, I sort of wish we were in the room more. A real breath of fresh air, this place.
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