Smoking in Your Non-Smoking Hotel Room
I’m not a smoker, but I know enough smokers to know that combining your “please, no smoking” message with “COUGH, COUGH, COUGH” is a pretty good way to get someone to hate-smoke all up in your grill. Also: A $350 cleaning fee seems … well, not reasonable, exactly, but certainly within the realm of rationalization for someone already paying $600/night for a hotel room in midtown Manhattan.
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Previously on The Billfold
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Yeah, wow. Even as an asthmatic who desperately wishes nobody would ever smoke anywhere near her, I find that first page just outright obnoxious to smokers.
You know what though? The smoke smell is impossible to get out and smokers generally can’t smell it. I had to have a looooong talk with my roommates about why they couldn’t smoke in their bedrooms, how it aggravated my allergies, and–most importantly–how it would obliterate our security deposit.
There was a $250 cleaning fee in the Desplaines, IL hotel run I stayed in after a long night in the Rivers Casino. Some savvy perfume spritzes, and no charges to be had.
I want to quit soon, I swear.