Hotels with smoking rooms: where they still exist in 2026

Japan and Hong Kong. Tokyo is the easiest big city: private guest rooms are exempt from Japan's indoor smoking ban, and we found 12 hotels, mostly business hotels near Haneda, Narita and Shinagawa. Osaka gave 14, four of them near Kansai Airport, though the label comes and goes with the dates you search. Hong Kong is the reverse. Only Prudential Hotel on Nathan Road sells a labelled room, and six more, such as Grand Hyatt (20th floor) and Gloucester Luk Kwok (26th floor), confirmed smoking rooms in replies to guests.

The United States. Las Vegas has 13 hotels, but at the large casino resorts the smoking floor is a request, not a room type: Treasure Island's 36th floor, Bellagio's 19th, certain ARIA Sky Suites. Westgate, Rio, The Venetian, MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay went non-smoking. New York is different again: ten budget hotels in Queens, the Bronx and New Jersey, and none in Manhattan.

Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Bangkok has six, led by InterContinental's levels 23 and 24, with several listings that contradict the hotels. Kuala Lumpur has six too, but none can be booked by room type: Hilton Kuala Lumpur and DoubleTree's Level 30 state it on hilton.com. Singapore has none we could verify among about 145 hotels checked, and hotels there cite local regulations.

London and Amsterdam. London law still permits a designated smoking bedroom, but none of about 800 listings advertised one. Amsterdam yielded a single smoking suite at Hotel TwentySeven out of about 440, plus three hostels with a communal smoking room or area.

Smoking is decided hotel by hotel, not chain by chain. The one chain-wide pattern we could confirm is Japanese. Western and Asian international chains are mostly non-smoking and publish the answer per property. Samples are small and room lists change with dates.

We did not search Choice Hotels, IHG or Best Western brand policies in the United States, so we make no claim about them. We also found no directory of “smoke-friendly” hotels that we could verify; the lists that exist online are unsourced and disagree with the hotels' own pages.

Neither site has a smoking-room filter. On Booking.com the only smoking-related facility offered on the Tokyo results page was “Non-smoking rooms”. A “Designated smoking area” label on some hotel pages means a shared outdoor spot, not a room. On Agoda the property filters read “Non-smoking” and “Smoking area”, and neither finds a smoking room.

1. Open the hotel's own page, set your dates and read the room table. Smoking rooms are separate room types with names like “Double Room - Smoking” or “Superior Twin Room (Smoking)”.
2. Search two or three dates. A sold-out smoking type disappears from the table, so a missing label on one night proves nothing.
3. On Booking.com, read the hotel's replies in the questions section. In Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore many hotels answer “do you have smoking rooms?” there, in their own words but with dates, some of them years old.
4. On Agoda, use the “All room types” list. The special-request step offers “I want a non-smoking room” and nothing for smoking, so choose a labelled room type or email the hotel.
5. Where no label exists, email and ask for written confirmation naming the room type, floor, dates and fee. Ask whether it can be cancelled if no smoking room is free, and keep the reply.

Even when a hotel confirms smoking rooms, they are usually “subject to availability on arrival” (Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, The Luxe Manor, The Ritz-Carlton Kuala Lumpur). hilton.com is the one major site that prints “Smoking rooms available: Yes/No” and the fee on every hotel page.

Hotels publish their own amounts; none is a legal maximum. Most Japanese and Hong Kong hotels say a fee may apply without giving a number. These are the figures we found.

Hotel New Otani Tokyo says cleaning costs may be billed without naming an amount. Charges go to the card you booked with, and several hotels, including OYO in Las Vegas and Le Méridien New York Central Park, have sensors in the rooms.

A balcony is almost never a loophole. Hotels that are non-smoking usually apply the rule to balconies and terraces. Hyatt Centric City Centre Kuala Lumpur, Conrad Singapore Orchard, Pan Pacific Orchard, M Social Singapore and Hotel 108 in Hong Kong all said so in writing, and Naumi in Singapore attaches a SGD 200 fee.

The exceptions we found are few. The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas lets guests smoke on their own terrace, with the ashtray provided and the room door closed, but not inside the room. Ascott Kuala Lumpur said in May 2022 that apartment balconies are fine, and S8 Boutique Hotel near KLIA said yes to a guest in June 2023. Those are hotel replies on Booking.com, so confirm before you rely on them.

Both sites have a balcony filter (“Balcony” on Booking.com, “Balcony/terrace” on Agoda), but it only narrows to rooms with a balcony. Combine it with a Smoking room type, or ask whether the balcony counts. At Grand Hyatt Hong Kong the terrace room is non-smoking and the 20th floor is the smoking floor, per a hotel reply of November 2021.

Our airport pages list smoking areas in about 740 airports, and our guide on taking a vape on a plane covers what can go in your carry-on.