Booking a high hotel room

[Jessica5]

Do hotels get suspicious of a local person comes in and demands a room on one of the top floors? Especially if you further demand that the room be facing the opposite side of the hotel pool?

 

[TripleA]

Do hotels get suspicious of a local person comes in and demands a room on one of the top floors? Especially if you further demand that the room be facing the opposite side of the hotel pool?

Do you planing jump?

 

[Jessica5]

Do you planing jump?

Thinking about it, certainly.

 

[drwt]

Can't you just book it online and pick the highest floor? Then you don't have to say anything.

 

[RainAndSadness]

Do hotels get suspicious of a local person comes in and demands a room on one of the top floors? Especially if you further demand that the room be facing the opposite side of the hotel pool?

Generally hotels don't mind specific requests very much. Some guests have certain preferences, it's normal. Back in 2019 when I booked my hotel room for my attempt I cancelled and rebooked several times in a row until I found enough strength to check in. I still didn't find the strength to push myself over the edge though. Nobody asked any questions.

 

[Latios]

Maybe this is a dumb question, but how would they know you're local?

Also, if you're facing the hotel pool, you might get a lot of noise from the people in/around the pool...

 

[Jessica5]

Maybe this is a dumb question, but how would they know you're local?

Also, if you're facing the hotel pool, you might get a lot of noise from the people in/around the pool...

I'd want the room to be on the opposite side as the hotel pool, in order to guarantee I fall onto land.

 

[Nymph]

Not really, you can pick a higher floor and say you want a nice view or something

 

[StuFin]

I once booked a hotel in Nottingham, when we got to the room was on the top floor and had floor to ceiling windows instead of a wall with windows in it. Never felt so dizzy in my life.

 

[Thanatonaut]

Maybe do some research and see if the room you want faces Mecca. If it does, tell them you're a Muslim and you pray towards Mecca. Throw an as-salaam alaikum in there and you're done.

 

[Soulless Angel]

every hotel normally responds to requests with no question, its not unusual
the only way they would know if you are local is via booking details and credit card,

 

[elfgyoza]

I once booked a hotel in Nottingham, when we got to the room was on the top floor and had floor to ceiling windows instead of a wall with windows in it. Never felt so dizzy in my life.

So...which hotel was this? Sounds way too fancy for Nottingham in my experience lmao

 

[JustLosingMyself]

Sorry to burst your plans.
By design hotel room windows cannot be opened wide enough to jump (unless there's a balcony). The 1928 stock market crash still resonates today. At least in Western Europe, not sure about elsewhere.

 

[Gnip]

Not in the slightest. People ask for quiet rooms all the time. On a scale of 1-10, the level of suspicion associated with a request like this is somewhere around minus -286.

It's always a good idea to telephone the specific hotel you are interested in during quiet times (often during overnight hours) for finding out when they have the most vacancies and fewest guests, because that's when you get the lowest rates and best room selections.

Their job is to answer your questions and to sell rooms. The only questions they should be asking have to do with how to better accommodate your needs.

A suspicious employee is a fired employee, and a suspicious hotel in a desperately competitive field is a hotel which will quickly find itself out of business. Beggars can't be choosers, and hotels are begging for business.

 

[Throwmyselfaway]

Hotels just care about money. They just want people to check in.

 

[Nimbus]

I don't think this would be a suspicious request at all. Many people request a room on a higher floor and (in warmer months) when the pool is open, they can be quite loud and echo to even the upper floors (voices of the pool-goers, that is). However, as others have mentioned, unless there is a balcony there is very little chance that you'll have a window that can open and allow you to jump.

 

[StuFin]

So...which hotel was this? Sounds way too fancy for Nottingham in my experience lmao

God it was years ago when Nottingham Forest were a good football team. That tells you how long ago.

 

[Meditation guide]

Hotels don't usually have windows you can climb out of. They are sealed. Maybe some have balconies in some resort areas.