Originally Posted by
s0ssos
Changed hotels, and next hotel (different chain than one previous) had same room number.
I think I've had that happen before once.
It seems like it should be awfully infrequent, and the probability should be something like winning the lottery. 2 random numbers being the same?
Though I guess it could be more frequent than thought (like 2 in room sharing a birthday) because of other factors.
Maybe ElevatorEnthusiast knows, given changing hotels nightly?
I'm sure certain factors can increase the likelihood of this happening. I.e. say you tend to request first floors, and a given hotel has say, 30 rooms on the first floor. You then go to your next hotel where you again request a first floor room which again has 30 rooms. If done randomly, the odds of pulling the same room number twice in a row is 1 in 900. For back-to-back hotels if both hotels had 100 rooms, the odds are 1 in 10,000. Certainly not the highest odds, especially on the latter, but also given how many tens of thousands of people are checking into or out of a hotel on a given day, it does make sense that it would happen on occasion.