HELP KEEP MARRIOTT SMOKEFREE

Tchiowa wrote:

On Oct 26, 4:27 am, Justin Case wrote:

kokiepoint wrote roups.com:

Too bad you have so much extra time on your hands.

Get a life.


Get one yourself. It's a serious issue. I spend most of my life
travelling and in hotels. Smoke filled rooms, lobbies, or just the
stench left over from the last guy who smoked in your room is a
problem.

Marriott (and I am Marriott Platinum) promised to solve the problem.
They should honor their promises.


Why not just dump them and go to Hilton?

On Oct 26, 1:35 pm, mrtravel wrote:
Tchiowa wrote:
On Oct 26, 4:27 am, Justin Case wrote:

kokiepoint wrote roups.com:

Too bad you have so much extra time on your hands.

Get a life.

Get one yourself. It's a serious issue. I spend most of my life
travelling and in hotels. Smoke filled rooms, lobbies, or just the
stench left over from the last guy who smoked in your room is a
problem.

Marriott (and I am Marriott Platinum) promised to solve the problem.
They should honor their promises.

Why not just dump them and go to Hilton?

Hilton??? You've got to be kidding! A couple of decades ago Hilton was
world class. No more. They're a second tier chain. The last time I
stayed in a Hilton was in Cairns in 2000. Not that much better than a
Motel 6, frankly. Odors from mildew in the hallways, etc.

Marriott is ahead of the pack by eliminating smoking. Some properties
are resisting. Marriott should do more to enforce their own rules.

On Oct 26, 12:38 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
Craig Welch writes:
Excellent! I might attend this event.

Smokers are a minority, something that Marriott has apparently overlooked in
this case. Short-term thinking instead of long-term wisdom. Perhaps it is
merely a local management mistake.

I suspect you're right. I've had the odd problem from time to time
with individual properties not following the rules. Usually a call to
Marriott offices solves it.

On Oct 25, 11:59 pm, Tchiowa wrote:
On Oct 26, 8:47 am, Justin Case wrote:

Tchiowa wrote roups.com:

Get one yourself. It's a serious issue. I spend most of my life
travelling and in hotels. Smoke filled rooms, lobbies, or just the
stench left over from the last guy who smoked in your room is a
problem.

That's a load of crap. I'm a non-smoker and have always been given a
smoke-free room. Grow up.

I don't know where you stay, but my remarks are based on US hotels.

Maybe you need to travel more. I always get a non-smoking room but you
can often smell the residue from the last guy who was there.

If you smell residue, it's not a non-smoking room. Hotels charge
$200.00 and up for smoking in a non-smoking room. The new Holiday Inn
Expresses make you sign a form at check-in stating if you smoke in a
room, $200.00 will be added to your bill for clean-up.

Plus when they have smoking in the lobbies or smoking conventions you have to
wade through the smoke to get to your room.

There's no smoking in 90% of hotel lobbies. In most hotels, the
smoking rooms are on the upper floors, You'll seldom find a smoking
room on a lower floor any more.

mrtravel writes:

Why don't you just boycott Marriott?

A boycott by a single customer isn't likely to have much effect.

Tchiowa wrote:


Hilton??? You've got to be kidding! A couple of decades ago Hilton was
world class. No more. They're a second tier chain. The last time I
stayed in a Hilton was in Cairns in 2000. Not that much better than a
Motel 6, frankly. Odors from mildew in the hallways, etc.

Right, there are no rank Marriotts. Yeah, sure.


Marriott is ahead of the pack by eliminating smoking. Some properties
are resisting. Marriott should do more to enforce their own rules.


Hilton eliminated it before Marriott and Hilton isn't hosting a cigar
convention.