Um...okay?

[iradney]

So the hotel I'm staying in is REALLY nice. Like, really REALLY nice.
I've got the windows open because I like having a breeze, and suddenly...

*sniff sniff*

is that WEED???
So I poke my head out the window, and someone in the room above me is smoking a spliff

I called reception and let them know about it, because someone in one of the nearby rooms might have an adverse reaction to that (A friend of mine got a panic attack the last time she tried grass).

I don't care if you do it at your house, but come on. The smell of grass (like tobacco) kinda spreads, without you realising it. Don't do it in a public place....

So, sucky of me, or sucky of them?

[chainedbarista]

them, hands down; if you're going to be stupid, do it at your own home, not at a business or other location.

maybe this is the bitch in me, but i'd have made a call to the front desk as well.

[AnqeiicDemise]

If you're going to do it in public, be smart about it. Its nothing an emtpy tube of TP & a laundry sheet cannot hide.... >.>

So I've been told...

[Jbball]

That's a hard one. They're on vacation (maybe) and just trying to enjoy themselves. Doing it out the window might prove they're not SC's, as they're trying to keep the smell out of the room.

Though, sucks that you just happened to catch a wiff of it.

[unclejampuff]

A mere whiff of pot gives me super bad headaches. If ANYONE around me smokes without warning me, like my roommate or someone at a party, I will go full bitch mode. If they want me to ignore an illegal activity, they might want to stay on my good side.

[iradney]

The thing is, they could've gone to the roof, enjoyed a helluva a view, and no-one would be the wiser. Tall buildings affect wind in weird ways. But even though they were smoking outside the window, 5 minutes later, I could actually smell it in the corridor outside MY room (a floor below them) over the sickly sweet airfreshener smell you sometimes get in hotels.

I dated someone who smoked weed ALOT - and that smell travels, esp in a windy city like the one I'm currently staying in.
Dunno if reception did anything about it, but if I do smell it again, I'll probably do the same thing.

[Emrld]

I have to say sucky on them.
I was a chaperone of a group of students (age 13-18)
Room just past ours was partaking.
I reported to front desk . . . .
We then left to go eat and let the hotel take care of while we were gone . . . in case they needed police involved - students didn't need to see.
We get back and the desk tells me someone else from the floor tried to blame it on students. However smell became stronger while we were gone.
Ends up it was in the room other side of mine . . .and guess what I am allergic to it.
Room happened to belong to a group of construction workers that stay their regularly. over 300 lb boss man was not happy to hear one of his people were doing that with a school group near by. He took care of it . . .hotel didn't want to risk losing the regular customer's business. (I say sucky on hotel's part - for worrying about who comes often vs legal activities)

[bainsidhe]

For those of us on this forum working the hotel desk, how would you handle it? Contact the room and advise the dummies someone called in a complaint? Warn them? Or just call the cops?

Unfortunately, I'm not one who recognizes the smell of weed. Yes, I'm aware it's distinct, but I really can't tell the difference between that or regular cigs. So I wouldn't be able to use my own prowess to discover who the blockheads were. Or if it was really weed vs. clove cigs, for example.

Edit to add: 400th post. Whoopee!

[myswtghst]

I'll agree with sucky on them.

I posted a story a while back about people smoking in an adjoining room at a hotel, setting off my mom's asthma. In a new place, like a hotel, you don't know how/where the smoke is going to travel, or how the people around you are going to react. Hell, you don't know if your next door neighbor is going to be a cop.

So I'll agree - smoke it up on the roof, if you must, but don't inflict it upon your "neighbors," especially when you have no way of knowing who they are, or how vindictive they might be.

[Boochan]

I'd expect it reported if the hotel was entirely non-smoking. Otherwise it depends on the layout and how the smell/irritants travel. Regardless, at a hotel.. if your going to do something like that don't do it at all, because the smell stays, and most people do know what it is.. At least they were doing it outside I guess.

[Arm]

Sucky on them, I'd have to say. As others have said, if you want to go do something illegal and toxic, it's only common sense not to involve others.

As far as what the hotel should do, call the cops, hands down. Mostly because they have no way of knowing if some other guest may have already done so, and the hotel doesn't want to wind up being an accomplice. Or rather, the employees on duty don't want that.

Plus, that IS a smell that's very hard to cover up and probably very hard to get rid of. The hotel is going to either have to put forth major effort to clean up, or deal with customer complaints. But calling the cops, filing the report, etc. will give them grounds to take it out of the hide of the less-than-bright person that smoked it, or make an insurance claim.

(Of course, I imagine cleanup probably amounts to a bottle of Febreeze if it was a smoking room already, but the bit about not wanting to lose your job as an employee there would still apply)

[Andara Bledin]

Bad on them for being inconsiderate in their illegal activities.

I'm one of those people who couldn't care less about others smoking just as long as it doesn't bother anyone else.

^-.-^

[Crazeyal]

If it bothers you, it's your right to report it. Methinks you over reacted a bit about the friend's exposure. Being in a confined room with a pot smoker = easy way to get a contact high. Smelling the scent a seperate room over = not so much.

If you choose to smoke that sort of stuff, it's your deal. If you smoke enough to get noticed... you have to deal with the consequences.

I don't think you were sucky. Perhaps you could have waited a few minutes and see if it dispersed, but definatly not sucky.

[Evil Queen]

For those of us on this forum working the hotel desk, how would you handle it? Contact the room and advise the dummies someone called in a complaint? Warn them? Or just call the cops?

Call the front desk clerk so the clerk can call the police. It's an illegal act and therefor something for police to handle.

All you have to do is say "hey, I believe someone on [floor or room] is smoking weed."

The clerk should investigate by going up to see if they can smell the substance. If they can, a call is placed.

But that's how I've always done it. Any others?

Oh, Rads, you did a good thing.

[Aethian]

I can't smell it but I am allergic to it. My Landlady taking into account of my not being able to smell it would do it alot and I would get sick. Started calling into work and was brought in for a letter of warning. Got sick at work and went to the hospital. Hospital did a drug check and I was positive. Now I face loosing my job until a tech, who had gone to my rented room looking for clues as to why I was getting ill came back with the news. Moved out of that place as fast as I could and lost over 900 dollars because she said I broke contract. Unfortuntly I had a hard ass of a judge who wouldn't see it to just split the amount.

Thankfully still have my job, renting a lot better place, and don't have to deal with it anymore. Except every so often during a party downat the end of the road I have to winter seal the windows or else I start getting sick again.


So my answer...hotel should have called a drug unit.