[SevenofNine]

OH they are giving rid of Smoking room ML

They are all Hilton are going non smoking rooms by year 2007 that was in LA Times back in July because of demand by travlers want non smoking room

[steveo]

I'm surprised you could get a smoking room here in Cali. The only places I know you can smoke inside here are tobacco shops and Indian casinos.

[Ditter]

I always get the opposite response. When I ask for a non smoking room I am usually told they are all taken and only smoking rooms are available. I am not talking about CA or the Hilton specifically, just rooms in general.

[leda]

patton has traveled alot. stayed in hiltons all over the
country too. when they tell him they are out of smoking
rooms, he pulls out the multitude of gold cards he has
for competitors. somehow they seem to mysteriously find
him a smoking room. ;)

[thegreatbeast]

Face the facts, man, you've got a large target hung around your neck. You are a prime target of the people who know better than you.

[ml/nj]

ping for your consideration

[kingu]

Since I'm pretty much only staying in hotels in California, it's hard to say if it is only a California thing or not. But more and more we're coming across entire hotels that have no smoking rooms at all. Holiday Inn Express seems to be the worst at it; haven't found one yet that offers smoking rooms.

Hilton in Bakersfield usually has plenty of smoking rooms available, the one in Arcadia is run by the local smoking busybody (who wants to make 'smoking sections' at Santa Anita, last I heard...)

Truth be told, it's really starting to tick me off. Charge $120 a night for a room where you can pay extra for just about everything. If it wasn't for Hotwire.com, I probably wouldn't even bother staying at a Hilton again. Service at all of their properties has dropped through the floor in most of the Southern California locations I've stayed at.

[MotleyGirl70]

...am I wrong in what I told you?

[Lurker]

Do what I do.

Smoke in it anyway.

Dispose of the butts outside of the room.

Leave a $20.00 tip for the maid.

I've never incurred their stupid 'cleaning charge' once.

L

[SheLion]

The Westin Hotel Chains are also smoke free now.  Which include the Marrioritt's. (spelling)

[SheLion]

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[at bay]

This time I asked how many designated smoking rooms they had, and the clerk told me they had 30.

Sometimes they don't even have that many fools, as I stayed in a Hilton in Portland recently and they had to put me in a chimney person's room, all non-smoking filled even tho' they told me 95% of the rooms were non-smoking. Say, what if you wind up being the last person doing an imittion of a chimney in the better circles?

BTW, the hotels would prefer no smoking rooms at all, smokers being the slobs they are. I've talked to upper management, I'm not just blowing smoke.