For me, yes I’ve stayed in several windowless hotel rooms. Most of them have been pod style hotels, but there was one I stayed at in New Orleans which looked like it was an office building conversion.
I don’t mind rooms without a window and I’d certainly stay in them again. This is probably correlated with my enjoyment of small pod type hotels.
I know a lot of people are going to strongly disagree with me on this and I can somewhat understand. There’s also been plenty of times I’d happily swap that view of a parking garage for a widowless room that didn’t have the sun peeking in at 530 AM!
We’ve stayed in some airport hotels–Singapore and Tokyo maybe? No windows and that was appreciated since we were whacked out from the flight. A vacation hotel, no way.
I’ve never stayed in one, but I’d consider it in a place like NYC. I’m assuming there would be a significant cost savings. With normal rooms costing $250+, getting something for half or less would be very attractive. Especially since I would just be using the room to sleep anyway. If I’m not sleeping, then I’d likely be out doing stuff rather than lounging around in the room.
Some cruise ships have windowless interior rooms. It might be similar to that. If you’re spending almost all your time outside your room, you could save some money and get the cheap lodging option.
I have stayed in windowless hotel rooms many times. I was traveling for work, so all I cared about was whether or not the wifi worked. I really didn’t give two hoots about the lack of a window.
I was on a trip just this weekend, and stayed in a windowless room in a hostel. It had a bed, and it was clean, and that was about all I was looking for, since the only time I was spending in the room was when I was asleep, anyway. And it was also about a quarter of the price of any other accommodation option.
Unless I’m paying for a view, I don’t care whether my hotel room has a window. Natural light can be nice once I’m awake, but I’ll happily make do without it — as long as there are enough lights/lamps in the room.
Every year I go to a jazz festival held in a large hotel/conference center: I always splurge and book a suite for the weekend, and they’re all interior rooms. There are windows in the living rooms, but the “view” is just a hallway…and, often, the elevator. Doesn’t bother me one bit, and like the OP says it’s nice to have a truly dark bedroom whenever I want to be sleeping. (I know a bunch of tricks for closing the gaps in hotel curtains, but I’d rather not have to MacGyver them.)
The Ambassador? I stayed there twice when I was young(er) and all I wanted to do was stay out all night and sleep in the next day. Never even noticed the lack of windows actually.
For two days; though on the second day I begged them to let me go sit next to a window for a while. They found me one, some distance down a hall. On the first day I think I was too groggy to care.
I live in a 400SF apartment and almost never open my windows*, which are covered with black inward facing blackout curtains. The only natural light is through a few 1" slits on the top of the curtains. So, I would have absolutely no problem staying in any windowless room.
*In the 6 years I’ve lived here, the only times I’ve opened the curtains and windows is when the smoke alarm goes off and I need to clear the room of smoke. Prior to that I lived in the family home that was so pitch black at night, I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. I do this because I want to watch TV in a pitch black room.
I was on one of a series of two-week business trips I was doing about ten years ago and the hotel had me in a windowless room. I was a bit taken aback as I had never before experienced such a thing. I figured I could manage for two weeks until I realized the HVAC system in that room didn’t function effectively and it became really stuffy really quickly. So I had to have my room changed; they moved me to a great corner room with a zillion windows.
When I was in university, during our exam periods, I got length of black corduroy as a blackout screen. One morning, after I had just woken up, I noticed that my screen had slipped and opened about a quarter of an inch, and the existing curtains had done about the same, creating a very small hole through which outside light passed. It had turned my room into a giant camera obscura, and on the wall opposite the window was an inverted image of the outside. I was completely blown away by that; it was very cool.
Can’t say that I have that I can recall, including ‘camping pods’ which always seem to have a very small window opposite the door, though it is possible, especially with hostels as rooms are sometimes shoehorned into the structure and I try to get private rooms in if available - so increasing the chance of funky designed rooms.
But I did come close once, where due to be very touristy and already mostly booked I had to book at a less desirable place and when I arrived the check in person told me that my room had no windows, but since I’m staying a week she said no one should be deprived that long and switched me to another room. In some of those hostels there are basically cubicle rooms inside a main large room, and in those cubicles I had no windows however the cubical is top opened to the main room with them. Additionally I’ve stayed in for pay lean too structures for hikers which have no windows however it is lacking one of the 4 walls as well.
Have I ? Only on a cruise ship. Would I ? depends . Am I at a resort where I will only be in my room to shower and sleep? Then yes. Am I on some sort of trip where i will be in the room a couple of hours a day? Then I need a window.
I don’t recall ever staying in a windowless hotel room, but I tend to go with the cheapest option. I’ve spent the night in motels that offer rooms by the hour, so yeah, if it was a cheap option I’d happily sleep in a room without windows.
I’ve stayed in a few airport hotel rooms with no windows. But since all you are doing is sleeping and getting up early, not a bit deal.
On vacation we stayed in a room in Barcelona with a small window onto an air shaft. It didn’t let in any light so it effectively didn’t have a window. The room and hotel were otherwise fine, but the lack of natural light was a bit oppressive.