Future Hypo Allergenic Hotel Blog Posts
Posted on | September 19, 2010 |
Okay, so I haven’t written anything related to hypo-allergenic lodging and hotel rooms for quite some time. Well, that’s because there aren’t any! Without notice, this blog changed its format several months ago to now include only those hotels that have breathable guest rooms; that is rooms that have no discernible debilitating odors for the breathing challenged to choke on.
I have stayed in dozens of hotels since my last post and believe me when I say that the state of the smell of chain hotels in America is absolutely abysmal as far as available hypo-allergenic rooms go.
If you can find a clean unscented room chances are you will have to run a gauntlet of stink to get there. Like the Ritz-Carlton in Barcelona, Spain to the Hilton Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut you can see the smoke in the lobby emanating from the scent generators located there.
While in the Westin Hotel in Jersey City, New Jersey earlier this year, the hotel chain was featuring a full blown “Breathe Easy” campaign going on to promote their new scent that they so generously
spray into the rooms. YUCK! I’m not even sensitive to these poisons but this was truly offensive.
Even worse, there was a recent advertisement featuring Holiday Inn’s new scent that they developed to make their rooms “simple and clean, open and airy, and warm,” again, YUCK! When will it end? It’s like “natural flavors” as an ingredient in food, it’s fake. There is no scent like no scent.
So, if you know of a hotel that is clean, please, post it here. In the meantime, as my travels take me to different hotels around the globe, if any one of note appears, I will write about it here. I still maintain that the hotels must find it more cost effective to cover up smells with perfume rather than actually clean the rooms.
Good Luck in your travels seeking scent free places. I know that travels with my wife keep getting further and further away as clean hotels vanish before our very noses.
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March 7th, 2011 @ 2:35 pm
My daughter and I both suffer from multiple chemical sensitivities. We live in Canada and have found similar problems to yours. Our best hope for hotels has been Marriot Courtyard because they usually have some rooms with balconies abd sliding doors. We have found a great difference even within hotels, as some houskeeping staff are usually one one floor. One one trip, we found a place where a housekeeping staff member was fragrance sensitive which was a real blessing. She also understood my request for no room cleaning while we were there. I have tried to educate the hotel managers on chemical sensitiveity being different than feather-free rooms. i cannot tell you how many times we have had to sleep in our car on overnight trips. Even then, I have to wash all of our clohes out afterwards as they pick up car scent. However, at least we can breathe with the windows open. So, we do not travel in the winter months, if possible, at all.
March 23rd, 2011 @ 11:26 pm
I have an autoimmune disorder that has heightened my previous allergies to dusts, molds, and sensitivities to fragrances. I haven’t stayed anywhere overnight except my house for the past 12 years as a result. But in looking for a possible place, I ran across a home for summer weekly rental in Door County WI where the owner steam cleans everything and uses no chemicals. I haven’t stayed there, but if you want the website please contact me.
Have you considered making a hypoallergenic travel guide of B and Bs and rental homes?
Thanks,
Bonnie
May 9th, 2011 @ 9:01 pm
I like to know if you find a fragrance free hotels in the US.
We can not travel because we can not find a fragrance free hotel.
I just can’t understand how people can stand with those yuck smelly stuff all day long.
Please let me know about clean, fresh air hotels.
Thank you
May 10th, 2011 @ 1:06 am
I feel your pain….I have stayed in quite a few brands of chain hotels since my last post on this subject and the stink in them has really has gotten a lot worse. Here in the US, It’s really out of control.
You may have good luck staying in private hotels or a ‘bed and breakfast’ type of establishment. (Ask about pets if you are allergic). Perhaps a short term private apartment rental or exchange may work for you The owners might share similar concerns about smelly hotels. I am not promoting the site but Craigslist is one place to look for those types of vacation accommodations.
The last hotel that my wife stayed at with me that was acceptable and had breathable air might have been the Kimpton in Salt Lake City but that was maybe 2007 which is light years of change for the hospitality industry here. Enough time, in fact, for Hilton Hotels to develop their very own ’signature scent’ which stinks and for Westin Hotels to institute their ‘breathe easy’ program, which is not!