Reality check: Is it normal to want a window in a hotel?
I'm anticipating staying a single night in a hotel in London on my way to Edinburgh (short stopover to see a play). I stayed at the Z Hotel Tottenham Court Road last year (one word to the wise: it's not on Tottenham Court Road, it's on Poland Street), and I liked the efficient use of space and the window was just... there. Not a view window but a window.
I'm booking now at a different Z Hotel, and I don't know why but I just can't bring myself to book a room with no window. It's like I feel like I would be trapped in an emergency. I don't even know whether last year's window would open or if I could squeeze through it if it did.
That makes me think that it's just an artificial worry, like maybe it's something that my mother said when I was a child and it's just been lurking in the background all these years. But it's like GBP 50 more to have a window, and that's not nothing. Am I just being unreasonable or is there really a potential (if not probably) safety issue?
Thanks!