Have stayed at HDR, Dunn Inn, Amistad, and my favorite SL. The Amistad and Dunn Inn rooms have seemed to smell the least from vestigial smoke. The balcony rooms on the top floor of the HDR smelt very strongly of smoke and we had to move from the room we had reserved in the Mansion wing of the SL to another due to the heavy and lingering smoke smell. Of course it is impossible to keep guests from smoking in rooms, but why not designate some rooms as smoke free with a notice that if the room is smoked in there will be an additional cleaning charge, put up smoke detectors, take away the ash trays and stop selling cigarets in the rooms?
If others want to smoke I don't care. I just don't want to breathe it or smell it all night long in my room's carpets, sheets and pillow cases, or for that matter see burn spots in the carpet of my room or on the room's furniture. I know this is a problem for all hotel owners and I know that smokers cause more room damage then non smokers and for that reason more and more properties in the US are designating the entire hotel (not just certain floors) as non smoking. Back in the days when you could smoke on planes smokers would often buy seats in the non smoking section and the get up to go to the smoking section to smoke. When ever one of those passengers sat next to me I would ask why they did not book in the smoking section and the answer was always the same: that they could not stand the smell. And my response was always, now you know how someone feels trying to sleep in a hotel room you have been smoking in and pretty often their response was that that was why they always asked for non smoking rooms...guess it was the same logic in asking for a non smoking seat on the airplane 