Do Hotels Ever Have A 13th Floor

The thirteenth floor is a designation of a level of a multi level building that is often omitted in countries where the number 13 is considered unlucky.

Do hotels ever have a 13th floor. Maybe the 13th floor is finally making a comeback. They will list a 12th floor and go straight to a 14th floor. Even then the first skyscraper the home insurance building was. The floor doesn t exist.

Mgm resorts international the. Ever wonder why that is. Instead they label floors from 12 to 14 skipping over 13. We polled 40 hotels in las vegas and found more than we expected with a 13th floor.

Many hotels in las vegas where luck and superstition are important psychological factors do not have 13th floors and other large hotel chains routinely skip from the 12th to the 14th floor although technically the 14th floor is really the 13th floor of that building. The habit of leaving out the 13th floor in tall hotels is a relatively new one. We actually do have a thirteenth floor and we have 26 floors total in the hotel says a customer service rep. Omitting the 13th floor may take a variety of forms.

In any case most hotels still do not label their 13th floor as such so they don t upset superstitious guests or those with a phobia. Has anyone tried to change their 13th floor reservations there. The most common include denoting what would otherwise be considered the thirteenth floor as level 14 giving the thirteenth floor an alternate designation such as 12a or m the. Ever wonder why you ve never stayed in a hotel room on the 13th floor.

A caesars entertainment reservationist told us that all their hotels except for the stubby little but thoroughly lovable cromwell have 13th floors but if you find yourself booked onto one and want to change they ll gladly accommodate your request. It all comes down to triskaidekaphobia or the fear of the number 13. Quite a few actually. Skyscrapers did not come about until 1885.

The number 13 is often associated with bad luck and many hotels or apartments won t actually list a 13th floor. The builders of these hotels had earlier decided to exclude the number 13 while numbering their floors. Ever notice that lots of high rise hotels don t have a 13th floor. Others may begin with a b for basement and ending on 12 or have the 13th floor designated as m 13th letter in the alphabet for mechanical.

Not yet that i ve heard of but we ve only been open two months she said.