Smoking or Non-smoking

When booking into a hotel it's something they always ask me, Smoking or
Non-smoking. Not something I think about in day to day life since I don't
smoke.

I'm wonder tho, what proportion of rooms to hotels allocate to Smoking or
Non-Smoking? Presumably this has changed over the years. Are there certain
procedures a hotel goes through to change a 'Smoking' room into a
non-Smoking one?

I'm thinking particularly about UK hotels here.

Mark Hewitt wrote:
> When booking into a hotel it's something they always ask me, Smoking or
> Non-smoking. Not something I think about in day to day life since I don't
> smoke.
>
> I'm wonder tho, what proportion of rooms to hotels allocate to Smoking or
> Non-Smoking? Presumably this has changed over the years. Are there certain
> procedures a hotel goes through to change a 'Smoking' room into a
> non-Smoking one?
>
> I'm thinking particularly about UK hotels here.
>

Certainly wouldn't want a smoking room. I prefer a room that's not on fire.

Nils

Mark Hewitt wrote:

> When booking into a hotel it's something they always ask me, Smoking or
> Non-smoking. Not something I think about in day to day life since I don't
> smoke.

I've never been asked that in re a hotel room, although
restaurants in the U.S. (outside of California where there
IS no smoking in public buildings) frequently ask that
question. I do remember one motel room here in the U.S.
which positively REEKED of stale cigarette smoke, but if the
rooms have been properly cleaned between tenants, I've
seldom found a previous guest's smoking habits a problem.

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:

> Mark Hewitt wrote:

>> When booking into a hotel it's something they always ask me, Smoking or
>> Non-smoking. Not something I think about in day to day life since I don't
>> smoke.

> I've never been asked that in re a hotel room, although restaurants in
> the U.S. (outside of California where there IS no smoking in public
> buildings) frequently ask that question. I do remember one motel room
> here in the U.S. which positively REEKED of stale cigarette smoke, but
> if the rooms have been properly cleaned between tenants, I've seldom
> found a previous guest's smoking habits a problem.

It's pretty common today. The cleaning problem is what the owners are
trying to avoid. At one place, on a recent trip, we had the owner
apologize that all he had left were smoking rooms. As it turned out,
after checking the three available, we took the best of the three
available. As you say it wasn't a problem. The worst of the three
would have been. We would have gone down the road. Several places had
notices that there was a charge of from $50 to $100 if they found that
you had been smoking in one of their non smoking rooms.

An occasional place was completely non smoking.

"Frank F. Matthews" <frankfmatthews@houston.> wrote in message
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> EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
>
> Several places had
> notices that there was a charge of from $50 to $100 if they found that
> you had been smoking in one of their non smoking rooms.

Good! Many hotels I've been in have warning notices saying that if you
decide to light up you *will* set off the smoke alarm!

Mark Hewitt wrote:

> "Frank F. Matthews" <frankfmatthews@houston.> wrote in message
> news:uSh0d.13021$nC5.10048@fe1.texas....
>
>>EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
>>
>> Several places had
>>notices that there was a charge of from $50 to $100 if they found that
>>you had been smoking in one of their non smoking rooms.
>
>
> Good! Many hotels I've been in have warning notices saying that if you
> decide to light up you *will* set off the smoke alarm!

So do airliner lavatories, since the "no smoking" ban went
into effect. Wonder how many passengers desperate for a
smoke on long flights ever test it out? (Probably none,
since we became so paranoid about "potential" terrorists.)

>
>

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop@> skrev i meddelandet
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>
>
> Mark Hewitt wrote:
>
> > "Frank F. Matthews" <frankfmatthews@houston.> wrote in message
> > news:uSh0d.13021$nC5.10048@fe1.texas....
> >
> >>EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
> >>
> >> Several places had
> >>notices that there was a charge of from $50 to $100 if they found that
> >>you had been smoking in one of their non smoking rooms.
> >
> >
> > Good! Many hotels I've been in have warning notices saying that if you
> > decide to light up you *will* set off the smoke alarm!
>
> So do airliner lavatories, since the "no smoking" ban went
> into effect. Wonder how many passengers desperate for a
> smoke on long flights ever test it out? (Probably none,
> since we became so paranoid about "potential" terrorists.)
Obviously a few have done it on short trips as Ryanair have a list of
passengers banned for life (!!) on their flights because they've tried to
smoke a cig onboard.

"Kristina" <kristina_b@> wrote in message
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> And this has WHAT to do with the topic of discussion?
>
> RIght. Nothing.

Everything. Your issue is with the hotel management in giving you
compensation for not giving you the room you ordered in the first place.
Instead you are just punishing the people who follow you.

Pretty disgusting habit and I don't want to be sleeping somewhere where
someone has been smoking only a few hours before.

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop@> wrote in message
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>
>
> Mark Hewitt wrote:
>
>> When booking into a hotel it's something they always ask me, Smoking or
>> Non-smoking. Not something I think about in day to day life since I don't
>> smoke.
>
> I've never been asked that in re a hotel room, although restaurants in the
> U.S. (outside of California where there IS no smoking in public buildings)
> frequently ask that question. I do remember one motel room here in the
> U.S. which positively REEKED of stale cigarette smoke, but if the rooms
> have been properly cleaned between tenants, I've seldom found a previous
> guest's smoking habits a problem.

But what if the maid smoked?

Marianne

"Kristina" <kristina_b@> skrev i meddelandet
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> Then tell the hotel you want a different room if you don't like the
> smell of the one assigned.
> kris
Possibly the next guest is suffering from asthma and possibly he/she doesn't
detect the tobacco smoke until he/she have got an attack of asthma ?
And possibly there aren't any more no-smoking rooms available at that hotel
and others are fully booked. Try to imagine the problems for someone with
such problems or eventually allergy.
While your problems isn't of the same dimension. You can always walk out
and have a cig somewhere else where smoking is allowed.
I guess you've reason to blame the hotel if they've failed to provide you
the booked accommodation but that shouldn't be solved by damaging the
room.
Maybe ,if you insist , you could be entitled to a discount.