Non-smoking rooms in Paris

Do any hotels have non-smoking rooms? We ask this question in the comments section of every hotel we check, and none of them ever respond. Is %26quot;non-smoking%26quot; an American thing?

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In my opinion, any hotel with 2-start or over will probably have non-smoking rooms. I visited 6 different hotels in different areas last month and all had non-smoking rooms?.

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I don%26#39;t know whether %26quot;non smoking%26quot; rooms are an American thing, but %26quot;smoking rooms%26quot; definitely are. Smokers are so ghettoised in America, that when you are stuck in a smoking room in the States, as it has happened to me - a non smoker - several times, it%26#39;s hell, as if the previous occupant had smoked the production of the whole state of Virginia! In Europe, smokers are not confined to any particular type of room, so statistically it%26#39;s evened out. But now of course international chains (Accor group, Hilton, Marriott, etc. ) have imported this American nicotine apartheid to Europe.

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They may have them but there would be little point. The French would simply ignore them!

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They do have them, and the French and others do ignore them sometimes. Often there are ashtrays!

Its worth booking that way in a large hotel because they will have no smoking floors, probably usually booked by US tour groups!

Oddly at the BW Latin Quartier Pantheon where I stayed in September the 5th flr was a no smoking floor, and the only one with walk around balconies!

The good thing in most hotels is that you can open the windows and air the place out!

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If you want to know exactly what amenities a Paris hotel offers, the Michelin red guide to Paris contains that information in the symbology describing each hotel. As said earlier, most major hotel chains have non smoking floors, even the inexpensive ones like Ibis. Good luck with your search.

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Not to be contrary, but what the book (any guide book) says, and what you get can be very different. And when you are there and do not speak French, with all of your luggage, and exhausuted from an overnite flight from the states...you sometimes take what you are offered....but stand firm!!!!ir you booked a certain type of room demand it..they tend to go with that!

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Non-smoking rooms in many Paris hotels are becoming common enough. But you should confirm directly with the hotel to make your preference clear.

But as others have noted, %26#39;..non-smoking..%26#39; is not strictly enforced. At a hotel that we%26#39;ve frequented, we pre-requested and were assigned the same room that we had occupied on previous visits. When we checked-in during one visit, there was a new %26#39;..Non-Smoking..%26#39; placard affixed to the room door. I%26#39;m a smoker so I went down to the front desk and asked if they had a %26#39;smoking%26#39; room available. I was told not to worry...then the desk clerk handed me an ashtray and a book of matches to take back up to the room with me.