Originally Posted by
LTBoston
If you reserve and pay for a non-smoking room, you have a reasonable right to expect you will not be exposed to the smell of cigarette smoke, whether it's in the room or on the balcony - particularly if the hotel advertises itself as a non-smoking property.
There's an inherently contradictory statement here.
If the entire property is non-smoking even in public areas, there's no need to specify a non-smoking room. That is implicit in the definition of a non-smoking property.
The reality is that while almost all hotels offer non-smoking rooms, very few hotels prohibit smoking completely in the sense of a non-smoking property.
A person who reserves a non-smoking room, as opposed to room in a non-smoking property, can not reasonably require that the air outside the room be smoke-free.