>>Wonder if it's a case of one guy (say, the General Manager of the hotel) who's a smoker standing in the way of progress.
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>Interesting. But I'd bet that if its anything like that, it goes up higher than the individual hotel.
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Well, I've stayed in a bunch of other Hyatts over the last few years, and can't remember any other one that allowed smoking in the public areas other than the bar. In fact, seems to me that at the MVP summit last year, a bunch of us congregated in the Hyatt's elevator lobby specifically because the bar was smoky.

Tamar