if there is no smoking in the room. could i get away with vaping?

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DaveSignal

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What about the bathroom? If the room can stand shower steam, then why not vapor?

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I am actually in a hotel room right now. I could try it to test this theory, but if it sets off an alarm (and I have done this before in other places), then I will get fined. Since the room also has a window, I am going to stick with that for now.
 

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I've travelled quite a bit lately and vape in my hotel room all the time. I've never even considered that it would set off a smoke alarm and so far it hasn't. It doesn't set off the smoke alarm in my living room or bedroom, why would it set it off in a hotel room? But then I'm not a cloud chaser either. Never had anyone from the hotel question me, if they even know I was vaping.
Ditto! I don't blow clouds either, but I have been on several bus tours where we stay in a different hotel every night for a couple weeks at a time. I've never had a complaint, and never set off an alarm in a hotel room or even in the airplane bathrooms.
 

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Ditto! I don't blow clouds either, but I have been on several bus tours where we stay in a different hotel every night for a couple weeks at a time. I've never had a complaint, and never set off an alarm in a hotel room or even in the airplane bathrooms.
Just know that it is quite possible to set off a smoke alarm, especially in a very small confined area like an airplane restroom. And if you do happen to set off that alarm, there is the possibility that the pilot could send that plane with the all of the passengers on an additional emergency stop enroute to your final destination. Airplane regulations should not be taken lightly.
 

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I am actually in a hotel room right now. I could try it to test this theory, but if it sets off an alarm (and I have done this before in other places), then I will get fined. Since the room also has a window, I am going to stick with that for now.
Go down to the front desk and ask if vaping is allowed. If they say no stick to the window idea
 

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I'm somewhere in between (not sure of there is such a thing but that's how I classify myself.
I think the term is "MODWHOMPER". Lol! There's a thread about it.

Some smoke detectors are a lot higher quality than others. Some are CO2 sniffers as well. It will all depend on how much $ they spent on the fire alarm system when they built the place. Don't try taking the batteries out, as most of them these days in larger hotels are hard wired, not battery powered. (There will be an emergency power system of some sort, but not a battery in the device. Or the battery will just be for a back up if it's in the detector.) The shower cap should work, or the bathroom with the fart fan on. But if the system is rigged to call the FD if it goes off, you will DEFINITELY get a BIG FINE if they show up. So vape at your own risk.
 

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I travel a lot for work and always vape in my room, no one has ever told me not to. However, when I switched from a Nautilus to an RTA, I started noticing the room fogging up. Since then, I have set off one smoke alarm (twice!) but it went off after a few minutes and no one even called the room. I tend to chain-vape after a day of work.

Since then, I use windows or the bathroom with the fan on.
 

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I travel a lot for work and always vape in my room, no one has ever told me not to. However, when I switched from a Nautilus to an RTA, I started noticing the room fogging up. Since then, I have set off one smoke alarm (twice!) but it went off after a few minutes and no one even called the room. I tend to chain-vape after a day of work.

Since then, I use windows or the bathroom with the fan on.
Sitting on the loo with an Ipad all evening ...... The bathroom is not very convenient to chain vapers like you and me.
 

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Sitting on the loo with an Ipad all evening ...... The bathroom is not very convenient to chain vapers like you and me.

No, not convenient, but better than going outside or setting off the smoke alarm. I treat it like a smoke break, maybe pull over a chair or armchair to the doorway.
 

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Tampering with a smoke or fire alarm in a public building is a pretty serious offense in most jurisdictions in the US. This would certainly include putting a shower cap on the detector in a hotel/motel room. It's not a joking matter.

It's not in my nature to be a spoil-sport, and I'm not a 'smoke alarm nazi', but people need to understand the potential consequences. Messin' around with safety devices in public buildings is not a good thing to do.
 
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