a screenshot of a hotel room
Source: 1 Hotel Mayfair.

What Is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 304

Starwood Hotels is back — with a vengeance.

For this edition of this popular game, can you guess what you believe is wrong — or, at least, seemingly quite bizarre — with this screen shot part 304?

Click on this link to book a reservation for one night at 1 Hotel Mayfair in London on Thursday, July 10, 2025, as what is wrong with this screen shot was still apparent less than one hour prior to publication of this article and could disappear at any time. This hotel property is part of the portfolio of lodging options of Starwood Hotels. I am not yet posting a link to where I first found out about this, as the answer to What Is Wrong With This Photograph would be given away.

What Is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 304

a screenshot of a hotel room
Source: 1 Hotel Mayfair.

Please submit your answers in the Comments section below — and I enjoy reading creative answers.

Thank you in advance. As always, I cannot wait to read your answer and feedback.

Answer to What is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 303

a screenshot of a food website
Source: Publix Super Markets, Incorporated.

The first thing I noticed about this Publix weekly advertisement for Memorial Day 2025 is that “European cream” is used to fill this rather American oblong flag fruit tart in the patriotic red, white, and blue colors using fruit and whipped cream…

…and then again, those French hamburger buns do not exactly scream Americana, either. Some Star Spangled Weekend this Memorial Day turned out to be.

Favorite answer by derek: “I see Memorial Day as a patriotic American federal holiday but many of the items are foreign. The fruit tarts have European cream, bread is Italian style, hamburger buns are French style. To top it off, ‘star-spangled’ is more compatible with Independence Day or Flag Day, not Memorial Day.

“The hamburger is sort of out of place as it is not sweet and not really a ‘tasty treat from the bakery’.

“Not quite related, but a tangential thought, is that the idea of Memorial Day is observed in many countries under a different name and date. Examples are Remembrance Day in Canada, ANZAC Day in Australia, Tomb Sweeping Day in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People’s Republic of China. To some extent, it’s similar to All Saint’s Day in France where people visit the cemetery.”

Favorite comment by Kurt: “I don’t understand why Publix disguises their brownies to look like cupcakes. And that is one gargantuan hamburger! Do you have to slice it like a cake? Maybe that is why it is with the cakes and tarts.”

Access to Past Articles in the What is Wrong With This Photograph? Series

You can refer to this definitive list of past articles of the What is Wrong With This Photograph? series of articles, which also includes articles which reveal the answers. That list will be continuously updated as additional articles are written and posted here at The Gate With Brian Cohen to ensure that future articles in this series are not encumbered with a long list of links — especially when viewing and reading them from a portable electronic device.

Your constructive input as a reader of The Gate With Brian Cohen is always appreciated.

Final Boarding Call

You are encouraged to submit photographs of your own for this feature at The Gate With Brian Cohen. When you do, please let me know:

  • If you want to have photography credit attributed to you
  • What is the photograph
  • When and where the photograph was taken
  • If submitting a screen shot, please give the source — as well as a link to the source

If your photograph or screen shot is selected, it will be featured in a future article here at The Gate With Brian Cohen.

Source: 1 Hotel Mayfair.

  1. The King room is supposed to be “accessible rooms” but at those prices, nearly £10 million per night, the only person who might be able to afford it is the Sultan of Brunei. At that price, the rooms are inaccessible to most.

  2. Maybe they’re anticipating a rush on rooms because of the Billie Eilish concert? seriously though, it is Wimbledon time so maybe they’re expecting high $$ clients in town.

    1. If that is the case, Christina C, then why are the rates discounted by £4,110,446 — which is 30 percent off of the regular room rate?

  3. This wasn’t too hard. The first thing I noticed is that in the photo of the Lounge King room you are looking out the window southwest toward the front of Devonshire House. The angle of the photo shows that it is clearly a 6th floor room, and a quick check of architectural records for the hotel shows it is room 628.

    The next thing that caught my attention was the shadow on the cornice of Devonshire House. Some quick image enhancement and computer modeling confirmed that this specific shadow could only occur midday on the summer solstice, June 21. However, meteorological records confirmed that June 21 has been cloudy at midday in that part of London for the last five years, so the latest the photo could have been taken was June, 2019.

    Next I naturally turned my attention to the pillows on the sofa. I did not recall that the piping on the pillows was quite that wide the last time I was at that hotel. Sure enough through a reverse image search I was able to track the pillow to a hotel supplier in Leeds, and after contacting a company VP on LinkedIn she confirmed that that particular style of piping was first manufactured for pillows produced in March of 2019.

    Of course I immediately contacted the hotel and they confirmed what by now was a strong suspicion. While it is true that they started updating rooms on the 6th floor with that pillow in June, room 628 was not updated until mid-July. So clearly this photo is impossible, as I am sure I am not the first to note!

    Oh, and the prices seem high.

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