ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 3月2日 12時25分

The Grand Hotel in Pristina, Kosovo, is regularly reviled in internet reviews. Here’s a sample: “disgusting,” “a ruin” and “an absolute horror. Probably the worst I have ever been at.” But the managers seem unfazed by the online abuse. They don’t take web bookings and barely offer access to the internet; their hotel has no email account. The state-owned Grand has gone into such a steep decline that even Kosovo’s president, Hashim Thaci, usually an eager booster of everything his country has to offer, struggles to find anything nice to say about it. “I don’t think it is the worst hotel in the world, but that is because the world is very big,” the president said. The Grand’s general manager, Rrahim Fazliu, conceded that the place perhaps no longer deserved the 5-star rating it has claimed since it was built in 1978. But, he insisted, “with a bit of makeup” it can become a “symbol of success” for a country still struggling to find its stride nearly 20 years after a NATO bombing campaign broke Serbia’s grip on the unruly region. The hotel, Rrahim added, was a “mirror of Kosovo,” and the image reflected there these days is decidedly less alluring than what had been hoped for when it achieved freedom in 1999. @lauraboushnak took this photo of a room on the 12th floor. (Only 2 floors of the Grand are now open to guests.) Swipe left to see more photos, and visit the link in our profile to read more.

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