LarryU wrote, "I am in a lovely smoking suite on the top floor of the Times Square Hilton and there is no detectable odor at all."

Sounds great, LarryU! And that bears out our experience, which is that suites, even if not designated n-s, still often fall into the category of "old style" room, only occasionally smoked up. It pays to check!

DOC 2 BE, I just took wharvey's comment to mean that his smoker friends go outside the hotel. We have a good friend, smoker, whose wife doesn't smoke, and when they travel together (and always ask for a n-s room) that's what he does. He does NOT stand in the corridor. By himself, he books smoking.

Flying High, your name is really Shirley, right?

It's been my impression for years that hotels will "go after" someone who smokes up a n-s room, and charge them the cost of making the room n-s again, but you know, I don't have any direct knowledge of this. Does anyone?