hotel room size
 

What do you consider a minimum reasonable size for a hotel room (including bathroom, as hotels seem to measure the total size)?

I realize that shape, decor, etc. can have an effect, but if you're relying on published descriptions, total size is what you see.

I think anything under 400 sq ft is pretty small - but that's just the opinion of a somewhat claustrophic person!

250 square feet. 10 feet by 25 feet is really as small as I can bear.

Any smaller and I request a room change or check out.

Capsules'R'Us
 

2x1x1 meters is fine with me -- and Japanese capsule hotels are cheap too! ;) The only thing I don't like in most capsules is that there is no lockable door, just a curtain, so soundproofing isn't too great and you have to leave your valuables in the locker. Or just under your pillow, since you'd have to be a pretty damn good thief to be able to climb in and out of someone else's capsule unnoticed while they're sleeping there...

http://jpatokal.iki.fi/photo/travel/...psuleHotel.JPG ^

I, too, look for at least 400 sq. ft., although I suspect that's larger than the average hotel room.

I find it interesting that having the larger space is so much more comforting for many of us, even though many of us walk into a hotel room, throw our bags on the floor, go to sleep in the bed, wake up, take a shower, and then leave. A much smaller room is more than adequate for all this, yet I still look for, and pay extra for, larger rooms.

Hotel Room Size
 

Doesn't matter much to me. The smallest room I ever had was at the St. James' Court in London years ago, where I practically had to re-arrange the furniture to get in the door, but I wasn't in there that much. The "atmosphere" is more important to me- if the furniture is in good shape and it's clean and well-lit I'm happy.

Well, since the first apartment I lived in (for two years) when I first arrived in Japan as a student was all of 50 sq. ft. (3 tatami mats), small hotel rooms don't bother me. This is fortunate as many of the hotel rooms in "business hotels" I have stayed in here in Japan often don't seem that much bigger than that room I had as a student.