# Shared hotel balconies - common? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 29, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shared-hotel-balconies-common/620354 "2012-04-29T21:12:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shared-hotel-balconies-common/620354/1 "2012-04-29T21:12:54Z")
Last week I was in a hotel in Dresden, Germany. Walk into the room & look around, there’s a door to the adjoining room, which I confirm is locked. I go out on the balcony to check out the view, which I leave the door to open when I come back into the room. Since it’s hot at night, I open the door to the balcony to cool the room off. Basically the balcony door is open day & night for three days until I discover the balcony is shared with the next room! I go down to the front desk where the ass. manager tries to play it off as being quite common & begrudgingly allows me the inconvenience to pack up my stuff & switch rooms. (BTW, he was the one who checked me in; & he never said a word about it.) I didn’t feel real comfortable with only being able to close/lock two of the three ways into the room. Has anyone ever heard of this? Is it nearly as common as he portrayed it? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shared-hotel-balconies-common/620354/2 "2012-04-29T23:44:42Z")
I’ve never seen a shared balcony in the US. Closest is a continuous balcony with a quite high wall between those of adjoining rooms. But our hotels have air conditioning also, so I’ve never needed to keep a door open - and some “balconies” have been on the first floor, ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shared-hotel-balconies-common/620354/3 "2012-04-30T00:23:56Z")
I’ve seen a few where the balconies are separated only by a gap, which a daring (or foolish or suicidal) person might step across. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shared-hotel-balconies-common/620354/4 "2012-04-30T00:48:16Z")
The room they moved me to had a continuous balcony, but the rooms were separated by about 3’ wrought iron railing. It would have been easy enough to climb over it to go to the next room’s balcony but it would have been \*some \*effort. In the original room, there was one balcony with doors from two separate rooms. The balcony had one table with two chairs. Each room gets one chair? I had paid for an upgraded room & thought it was a bit weird that the next room had a window on my balcony but didn’t realize it was a door as there was only a handle on the inside. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shared-hotel-balconies-common/620354/5 "2012-04-30T02:19:10Z")
I stayed at a very nice and expensive hotel in Pasadena, right by the Rose Bowl, that had shared balconies.