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Vaping and hotel rooms UK

88 replies

morethanspice · 30/01/2026 16:01

I’m trying to organise an overnight stay in a hotel for a treat but my companion is a compulsive vaper.
Im not sure how to proceed as everywhere non smoking, will this be a deal breaker?

OP posts:
DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 30/01/2026 21:03

aperolspritzbasicbitch · 30/01/2026 20:58

It’s relative because if you read your post, you suggested that sensitivity to vape smell is nonsense.
I’m using my example to show you that’s it’s not.

The thread’s about the effect of vape in a hotel room after someone’s left it. No-one’s kissing the last occupant.

I don’t believe for a moment that anyone can smell vapes from the last person who stayed in a hotel room. Absolute rubbish.

oscallah · 30/01/2026 21:03

Listen up. I vaped in my hospital bed. No problem. It was a single room. Bloody great.

oscallah · 30/01/2026 21:05

I obviously vaped under the covers, pretending I was reading, and only at night when staff numbers were lower and things were quiet. X rays and CT scans cause cancer so what the heck.

aperolspritzbasicbitch · 30/01/2026 21:05

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 30/01/2026 21:03

The thread’s about the effect of vape in a hotel room after someone’s left it. No-one’s kissing the last occupant.

I don’t believe for a moment that anyone can smell vapes from the last person who stayed in a hotel room. Absolute rubbish.

I can smell it on his clothes.

it does linger.

why are vapers so ignorant to the fact that it stinks?
it’s not nice.
just because you enjoy it, doesn’t mean the rest of the world does.
if a hotel room says no smoking or vaping, stay somewhere else.

Ilovegolf · 30/01/2026 21:07

MiddleAgedDread · 30/01/2026 20:48

Yes it does! It stinks and is as bad as fag smoke!

Ha! Nope. Fag smoke you cannot get rid of. If I’d lit a cigarette in any of my aforementioned hotels, I absolutely and quite rightly would have been charged for cleaning. And since hotels will charge for ANYTHING these days, they would definitely have charged me for cleaning for vaping if they’d known. They didn’t, so it didn’t happen 😇

Vera87 · 30/01/2026 21:07

Bathroom is guaranteed to be ok to vape in

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 30/01/2026 21:09

aperolspritzbasicbitch · 30/01/2026 21:05

I can smell it on his clothes.

it does linger.

why are vapers so ignorant to the fact that it stinks?
it’s not nice.
just because you enjoy it, doesn’t mean the rest of the world does.
if a hotel room says no smoking or vaping, stay somewhere else.

I do not believe that you or anyone else has ever smelt vape from the previous occupant in a hotel room.

aperolspritzbasicbitch · 30/01/2026 21:11

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 30/01/2026 21:09

I do not believe that you or anyone else has ever smelt vape from the previous occupant in a hotel room.

I haven’t said I have. But that doesn’t mean no one has.
my point stands though. If a room states no vaping, don’t vape. If you cannot possibly control yourself enough to go outside, stay somewhere else.

fashionqueen0123 · 30/01/2026 21:11

aperolspritzbasicbitch · 30/01/2026 21:05

I can smell it on his clothes.

it does linger.

why are vapers so ignorant to the fact that it stinks?
it’s not nice.
just because you enjoy it, doesn’t mean the rest of the world does.
if a hotel room says no smoking or vaping, stay somewhere else.

Probably like smokers they’ve lost their sense of smell. And in denial about their addiction.

MayaPinion · 30/01/2026 21:12

Somersetbaker · 30/01/2026 19:49

So what is the cloud of repellent smell outside the local spoons, judging by the clientele it's not deodorant.

That is the natural aroma of the clientele. Besides, spoons people don’t vape. They smoke proper fags.

WombatsInCombats · 30/01/2026 21:13

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 30/01/2026 21:09

I do not believe that you or anyone else has ever smelt vape from the previous occupant in a hotel room.

Of course they haven't. But how else do they feel morally superior

Judging · 30/01/2026 21:13

My colleague vapes. I can smell it, obviously. But does he smell of it later, is it on his clothes? No.

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 30/01/2026 21:14

aperolspritzbasicbitch · 30/01/2026 21:11

I haven’t said I have. But that doesn’t mean no one has.
my point stands though. If a room states no vaping, don’t vape. If you cannot possibly control yourself enough to go outside, stay somewhere else.

Of course. Obey the rules. But don’t pretend it makes any difference to anyone if vapers break the rules.

Ilovegolf · 30/01/2026 21:14

WombatsInCombats · 30/01/2026 21:13

Of course they haven't. But how else do they feel morally superior

That is it isn’t it? Some weird moral superiority? For something that doesn’t affect them at all……

100jamjars · 30/01/2026 21:14

I don’t believe for a moment that anyone can smell vapes from the last person who stayed in a hotel room. Absolute rubbish

Of course you can't. Sometimes there's a fruity smell from the flavoured ones when you walk past someone vaping, but there are plenty of 'plain' vapes that are not flavoured at all and they're pretty undetectable. I vape in hotel rooms regularly and my husband who doesn't and has never smoked or vaped tells me it doesn't smell at all. He would certainly complain if it did.

I spoke to the engineer who was testing my mother in law's fire alarm recently and asked him how likely it is that a vape could set off a fire alarm. He said if you stand on a chair and blow straight into it then possibly. . . .

whatcanthematterbe81 · 30/01/2026 21:15

Judging · 30/01/2026 20:17

Vapes smell foul, but I’m almost certain the pong doesn’t linger and wouldn’t be a problem in a hotel room.

This. I vape but the person saying they don’t smell is a bit of an idiot. They DO! But the smell defo won’t be there for the next guest. Not even 20 mins later!

ABeerInTheSunshineMakesMeHappy · 30/01/2026 21:18

Somersetbaker · 30/01/2026 19:49

So what is the cloud of repellent smell outside the local spoons, judging by the clientele it's not deodorant.

Weed?

But yes you can certainly smell some vapes.

i don’t get the OP’s problem though. I share a hotel room with my friend who is a smoker, she just goes outside to smoke. And yes, she does wake up the night and goes downstairs to smoke, security lets her in and out.

Boxingshibes · 30/01/2026 21:37

I do vape in hotel rooms. The one I use doesn't really produce 'smoke' or 'steam' also its a fruit scent.
I was worried about setting off alarms but has never happened. Though for work I always stay in premier inn for work
I've also spoken to reception and as long as its not a plumely one it's fine. They also can't smell it when you check out. According to reception perfume smells worse.

Amodernhistory · 30/01/2026 21:43

as with others, you can vape in hotel rooms and it doesn’t leave a smell. It’s (lack of smell, acceptability indoors) sort of one of the points of vapes.

If you look at smokers areas outside hotels, they’re not crammed with people doing strawberry vapes are they? No, because they’re doing those inside

morethanspice · 30/01/2026 22:11

Thanks for all the replies!

OP posts:
Sofachick6 · 01/02/2026 20:18

Amodernhistory · 30/01/2026 21:43

as with others, you can vape in hotel rooms and it doesn’t leave a smell. It’s (lack of smell, acceptability indoors) sort of one of the points of vapes.

If you look at smokers areas outside hotels, they’re not crammed with people doing strawberry vapes are they? No, because they’re doing those inside

Edited

Omg i go outside to vape, i am a loner 🤣

ParmaVioletTea · 01/02/2026 20:38

Oblivionnnnn · 30/01/2026 16:02

I vape in hotel rooms and no alarm has ever gone off or anything 🤷‍♀️

Gross.

RampantIvy · 01/02/2026 20:39

Sofachick6 · 01/02/2026 20:18

Omg i go outside to vape, i am a loner 🤣

But a considerate one.

Iloveeverycat · 01/02/2026 20:51

Just get them to vape by an open window

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 01/02/2026 20:53

Someone I know said they once stood on the toilet under the extractor fan to vape in a hotel!
I suppose if needs must....

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