True Non-Smoking Hotel Reservations
A growing number of hotels enable travelers to reserve non-smoking or smoking rooms. This is much more reliable than merely indicating your preference for a smoking or non-smoking room.
You can see how these reservations work by checking for availability at the Embassy Suites in Charlotte, North Carolina. Select any check-in and check-out dates you want, then read the Rate Plans that appear. They clearly indicate whether the suites you can reserve are smoking or non-smoking.
When you make a true non-smoking or smoking reservation, the hotel implicitly agrees to provide you the type of room you have requested.
However, when you make a reservation that merely indicates your smoking preference, the hotel is not agreeing to do anything. If they happen to have the type of room you want available when you check in, they will likely put you in it. If they don't have such a room available, you're out of luck.
The only option that's more reliable than a true non-smoking reservation is booking a room in a hotel that does not permit smoking in any of its guest rooms. The number of hotels in this category is growing as well.
If you know of a hotel that prohibits smoking or offers true non-smoking reservations, please write us at service@hotelguides.com, and we will update its listing accordingly. This information will be as useful to smokers as it is to non-smokers.
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