# Can you bring (and light) a few small intimate candles, in a non-smoking hotel room? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 1, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-and-light-a-few-small-intimate-candles-in-a-non-smoking-hotel-room/642663 "2012-12-01T10:20:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-and-light-a-few-small-intimate-candles-in-a-non-smoking-hotel-room/642663/21 "2012-12-02T23:24:29Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > I’m still wondering what “intimate candles” are. They’re made of [Sex Wax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Zog's_Sex_Wax). ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-and-light-a-few-small-intimate-candles-in-a-non-smoking-hotel-room/642663/22 "2012-12-03T00:57:04Z")
Naturally! ---
**Author:** ![missyzilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@missyzilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missyzilly)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-and-light-a-few-small-intimate-candles-in-a-non-smoking-hotel-room/642663/23 "2012-12-04T05:53:47Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The definitive answer is…ask the hotel manager at the hotel you will be staying at. This topic made me wonder if what I said a few hours ago about the people being highly intelligent … Maybe you are the only smart one! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bouncer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Bouncer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bouncer)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-and-light-a-few-small-intimate-candles-in-a-non-smoking-hotel-room/642663/24 "2012-12-04T06:17:00Z")
> [@simple\_homer](#): > > I know I would be very annoyed if I were given a hotel room that smelled of scented candles. > I would have to complain to management and ask for a different room. > > The risk of fire, and perhaps people like me, are the likely reasons that candle burning may not be allowed. > > I prefer a room with no discernible smell at all. How often do you travel and how acute is your sense of smell? Because if the only thing you prefer to sense is “no discernible smell” then you’re being fooled by “neutral scents”, probably sprayed by the cleaning staff. /shrug Seriously, the OP isn’t going to run into issues. The “No-Smoking” issue applies pretty much exclusively to tobacco users. The policy doesn’t say “no open flame” or “no smoke of any kind” it says “No Smoking”. The policy is clearly aimed at tobacco and it’s consumers. And before people bother to challenge me on this, my ex-spouse-to-be had a policy of putting scented candles in the room which provided both a warm glow and a light scent. In over 200 hundred nights over a couple of years (averaging 70 nights a year), not one, single time, were we ever challenged. Not once. Not in a Marriott, Hilton or Sheraton property. Not in a Motel Six. Not in a Super 8. Not one fucking time did anyone, ever, raise an issue over scented candles FWIW I’m writing this from a Sheraton with a scented candle burning. Nobody mentioned it yesterday and I suspect no one is going to mention it in the next 13 days I’ll be here. Regards, -Bouncer- PS: For the firebug scaredy cats we don’t put the damn candles next to a drapery or anything flammable. That’s just retarded. ---
**Author:** ![DataX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DataX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataX)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-and-light-a-few-small-intimate-candles-in-a-non-smoking-hotel-room/642663/25 "2012-12-04T06:22:10Z")
Still not sure - as mentioned in post 9 & 11 - why candles are a death trap, but smoking isn’t. If the hotel allows smoking in any room - seems silly to call this a safety issue. I can’t imagine how awful a candle would have to be to still smell it the next day. It is a non-smoking room. Cigarettes are horrid - candles are not. Of course - asking is a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Bouncer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Bouncer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bouncer)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-and-light-a-few-small-intimate-candles-in-a-non-smoking-hotel-room/642663/26 "2012-12-04T06:51:09Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Yeah, I’m skeptical that scented candles, once extinguished and removed, cause any more of a lingering, lasting odor than food or perfume or other things that people legitimately have in hotel rooms. > > I’m also skeptical of how much danger a few candles, say of the glass jar variety, actually pose. But now I’m curious to know if any hotels have explicit policies about them; and I’m also curious to know if anyone has any statistics on the actual causes of hotel fires. I am sure if we all check the fine print that hotels have some sort of policy to cover candles, scent sticks or anything else. At least in the US (Home of the Class Action Lawsuit™). The hair dryer provided en suite is probably more dangerous from a statistical standpoint, but if you delve deep enough into the terms of your hotel room, I’m sure they’re absolved of any liability should you electrocute yourself with it, or manage to set your room on fire with it. My point is simply that regardless of the statistical likelihood, hotels surely have all kinds of legal protections in place for the person that sets their prize winning poodle on fire using the hotel supplied hair dryer while the calming incense (“Ode de Canis Majesticus”) burns in the background. Regards, -Bouncer- [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-and-light-a-few-small-intimate-candles-in-a-non-smoking-hotel-room/642663.md?page=1)