# Have you ever stayed in a windowless hotel room? Would you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 3, 2023, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stayed-in-a-windowless-hotel-room-would-you/988028 "2023-08-03T23:35:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stayed-in-a-windowless-hotel-room-would-you/988028/41 "2023-08-07T11:19:36Z")
This resurrected a memory. Round about 1975-76, three friends and I went from San Diego to San Francisco for a long weekend. We happened to meet up with the parents of one of the guys in the group and they paid for our hotel for a couple of nights. My room was barely more than a closet - just space for a bed and maybe a chair? - and no window. No complaints from me - it was clean, quiet, and free. However, now in my old age, the chances of someone’s parents doing the same for me is pretty much nil. And if I’m paying, I want a window - even if there’s not much of a view. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stayed-in-a-windowless-hotel-room-would-you/988028/42 "2023-08-07T12:16:31Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > you need a few more ++++++ > > $500 or $600 per night seems more like the going rate for average hotels, more for the good places. Not $250, but Marriott has multiple properties available this weekend in Manhattan in the $300s _after_ fees and taxes. Same for some random calendar spot checks in September. While not the Ritz-Carleton, I’m pretty sure Fairfield, etc. all have windows. FWIW since it’s often a ceiling for my clients, the GSA rate for NYC tops out at $286 (before taxes). I’m glad I don’t have to navigate that. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stayed-in-a-windowless-hotel-room-would-you/988028/43 "2023-08-07T12:19:07Z")
That sounds weird to me and, no, I wouldn’t like it. 😳 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stayed-in-a-windowless-hotel-room-would-you/988028/44 "2023-08-07T14:24:32Z")
I’ve spent days working in hotel rooms. They all had windows but I wouldn’t have minded if there were none. As it was it was preferrable to working in a windowless office that used to be a supply closet in a hospital morgue and still would be without the windows. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stayed-in-a-windowless-hotel-room-would-you/988028/45 "2023-08-07T16:31:16Z")
I remembered another one. I stayed in a hotel room in Costa Rica where the room technically had a window, but the window looked out on an indoor atrium, not the actual outdoors. In the first apartment I lived in in college the bedroom was a windowless interior room, but it did have a skylight. I’m guessing the building code at the time it was built required an allowance for natural light, but didn’t specifically require a window. I doubt that would meet fire codes today, but I’m guessing it was grandfathered. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stayed-in-a-windowless-hotel-room-would-you/988028/46 "2023-08-07T16:45:52Z")
Only once that I can remember. We were on vacation, and had reservations to stay a single night at a Best Western in Flagstaff, AZ – when we got there, we discovered that there had been a problem with our reservation, and they didn’t have a room for us. But, the manager, in an effort to make it right, offered us a room that they usually used for when a staff member had to stay overnight. It had all of the features of a typical hotel room, except for a window. As we were only in that room for a grand total of maybe 10 hours (most of them during nighttime), it was just fine. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stayed-in-a-windowless-hotel-room-would-you/988028/47 "2023-08-07T18:48:42Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I stayed in a hotel room in Costa Rica where the room technically had a window, but the window looked out on an indoor atrium, not the actual outdoors. Better than nothing. I had a doctor’s appointment a few days ago, and they stuck me in a windowless office and said the doctor would be about fifteen minutes. He was half an hour. After twenty minutes I got up and opened the door; the sight of the adjacent partially-naturally-lit room helped considerably. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stayed-in-a-windowless-hotel-room-would-you/988028.md?page=2)