Are there any 13th floors in hotels

According to history, the superstition stems from the mysterious group, the Knights Templar. The Knights Templar was a Catholic military order founded in that was heavily involved in the Crusades. This group became famous because historians say that they invented the modern version of banking. They became so powerful and their banks became so famous that many powerful people started to take out loans from them. When it comes to hotels, many properties want to accommodate as many guests as they can and because a sizable percentage of the population has an issue with staying in a room on the 13th floor, many hotels have taken measures to avoid having a named 13th floor.

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Skip to content You may have been on a hotel elevator before and noticed that there was no button for the 13th floor. Table of Contents. Daniel Gillaspia. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, difficulty breathing, rapid heartbeat, sweating and feelings of panic. Skipping floor 13 in hotels saves patrons who may suffer from this disorder the discomfort of being in elevators with a 13th floor or from having a room on such a floor.

Common knowledge has it that fear of the number 13 dates back to one of the earliest written texts — the Code of Hammurabi. The story goes that the writers of the code left out the 13th law on the list.

However, the list has no numbers. Nonetheless, superstitious fear of the number 13 did crop up. The number 13 may have been bad in early religions. Some say Loki was the 13th Norse god.

Judas was the 13th to sit for The Last Supper. Like this post? Please share it! We have plenty more just like it and would love it if you decided to hang around and get emailed notifications of when we post. This post first appeared on Your Mileage May Vary. When I was staying at the Four Points by Sheraton in Bali, I noticed that there was a jump from third floor to fifth with no fourth listed.