A video of a Utah hotel room with an "absolutely surreal" view has mesmerized users on TikTok.
The clip was posted by @real.adventure.th and has amassed 1.2 million views since it was shared on September 7.
The man in the video says: "This is the hotel in Monument Valley," as he opens the door of the room. The camera heads straight towards the opposite end of a dark room, where the curtains are closed. The hotel guest peels the curtains back to reveal a balcony with a view of a vast valley landscape dotted by incredible rock formations under a clear blue sky.
The footage was captured at The View Hotel in Monument Valley, the poster told Newsweek, adding: "I'm not 100 percent certain if all the rooms face into the valley." In a later comment, he said: "The Milky Way is visible nearly every night. Lots of amazing camping in the area."
The View Hotel is a Navajo-owned business found within the Navajo Nation and the Navajo Tribal Park at Monument Valley, the hotel's website notes.
Opened in December 2008, the hotel was carefully designed to "serve the needs of visitors from around the world while blending with the environment so as not to detract from the beauty of Monument Valley."
The building's three floors have 95 rooms and each room has a private eastern facing balcony with "views unlike anywhere else in world," according to the hotel.
The top floor offers "StarView rooms with unforgettable views of the stars" and the whole of Monument Valley, ideal for night-time long exposure photography.
The viral post comes as U.S. hotel occupancy is projected to hit 63.6 percent in 2024, marking "a significant improvement" over the historic low of 43.8 percent recorded in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to the 2024 State of the Industry report by the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA). The figure is just 3.4 percent shy of the 65.8 percent reported in 2019 before the pandemic.
The AHLA report also found that guests ranked "room cleanliness, property cleanliness, and staff interactions" as the top reasons they'd leave a positive review for a hotel. Just over one-third (36 percent) counted the breakfast, restaurant or bar experience to be among the top reasons they would leave a positive review.
'Absolutely Surreal'
TikTok users were floored by the hotel room view in the viral post.
Iker Unzu said: "My jaw has never dropped so fast," and Valerie Gates wrote: "Wow that is absolutely stunning #bucketlist."
Jill Horner agreed, saying: "That is absolutely surreal. So beautiful."
Polly noted: "I wouldn't sleep, the stars must be amazing" and the original poster replied: "Night sky really is incredible."
Salvi De Korazon said: "Tell me it comes with a Sunset or Sunrise?" and the original poster said: "Sunrise is pretty epic."
Trisha Christine commented: "Well I wasn't expecting that," and AvW said: "It's like looking at a western movie."
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