Every hotel on No Carpet Hotels has been checked by a person for one thing: whether the room you sleep in has carpet on the floor. As of September 2026 we list 333 hotels without carpet in the rooms, and we have turned down 433 because they had it. This page explains how that decision is made, and what it does and does not tell you.
Where the evidence comes from
Hotels almost never describe their floors. When we read the websites of four hotel chains, room pages included and in two languages, not one of them mentioned the floor. So we do not rely on what a hotel says. We rely on what its rooms look like.
- Stayed & reviewed. We stayed in the room and saw the floor. 34 of the 333 listings, each with a written review.
- Human verified. A person looked at photographs of the rooms, usually from the hotel’s own website and its Google listing, and decided. 299 listings.
The decision is never made by an AI model and never copied from a listing description. Lobby, restaurant and pool photographs do not count: a marble lobby tells you nothing about the bedroom upstairs. A hotel is listed only once someone has seen a room floor.
Two answers, and nothing in between
Each hotel gets one of two verdicts. Hard floor in the room and it is listed. Carpet in the room and it is not. Of the 766 hotels we have decided so far, 57% were turned down.
Carpet here means fitted, wall-to-wall carpet. A rug laid on a hard floor does not count: the floor underneath is hard, and a rug can be lifted, cleaned or taken out of the room. If loose rugs are a problem for you too, ask the hotel before you arrive.
Turned-down hotels stay in our records with the photographs that decided them, so a hotel we have turned down does not come back for a second look by accident.
What “hard flooring” means
From a photograph you can reliably tell a hard floor from a soft one. You often cannot tell real wood from engineered wood, laminate or good vinyl plank. So we do not pretend to: 288 of our 333 listings say simply hard flooring, because that is what was seen. 45 listings name a specific material, 28 of them hotels we stayed in.
We never record laminate from a photograph. In a hotel photo it looks the same as engineered wood, and guessing between them would put a made-up fact in the one column this site exists for. The only listing that mentions it is a hotel we stayed in.
If a particular material matters to you, read hard flooring as “not carpet” and confirm the material with the hotel.
Rooms, not corridors
The verdict is about the room. Corridors are often carpeted even in hotels with hard-floored rooms, and photographs rarely show them. We have recorded the corridor floor for 5 of our 333 listings. A listing that says nothing about the corridor is not telling you the corridor is hard. If carpet anywhere in the building is a problem for you, ask the hotel before booking.
Dates
Every listing shows the date its floor was last confirmed for our records: the day a person judged the photographs or, for hotels we stayed in, the day we recorded the floor from our own review, which says when we stayed. All 333 were last checked in September 2026. Hotels refurbish, and a date lets you judge how recent our look was.
When we take a listing down
If you stay in a hotel we list and find carpet in the room, tell us through the contact page. We will take the listing down while we check again. We would rather be missing a good hotel for a week than send someone with allergies to a carpeted room.
Hotels cannot pay to be listed, and they cannot pay to stay listed. Booking links earn us a commission, and the affiliate disclosure explains how that works. It has no part in the verdict.
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