View Full Version : why do hotels and condiminiums skip the 13th floor? Is it like that in all...
...bulidings? In both Europe and US? I know is partly superstitious but it just baffles me that being in todays day and age so many hotels and condiminums skip a floor. Did the WTC have a 13ht floor. How about office buildings. Do they skip the 13th floor too?
*blonde
01-17-2010, 12:53 AM
its just superstition, as far as i know.
junior_03yes
01-17-2010, 03:00 AM
I worked at a high rise building and they had a 13th floor. So I think ther might still be some there that are supersticious.
Charmed
01-17-2010, 04:00 AM
many offices and hotels call thier 13th floor, the 14th floor. yes it is superstitious, but some say better safe than sorry!
chocdream63
01-17-2010, 05:30 AM
Well I'm sure it has to do with triskaidekaphobia. which goes back oddly enough to the knights Templar and when the King of France and the Pope happened to have all the Knights Templar arrested which was on a Friday the 13th. I believe that Hotels and condiminums skip that to accomidate their guests and dwellers, I haven't noticed one in an office building and I've worked in at least two that have had more than 20 flrs
It is a superstition that they held to in the past. Many older buildings(any building 13 floors or taller) numbered the thirteenth floor as the fourteenth. Newer and more modern buildings generally don't uphold this superstition.
JenniT
01-17-2010, 08:10 AM
superstition...and if you look at staircases, there are either 12 or 14 steps, and a lot of older houses would have a "half-step" (that's what i call them...they are not the same size of other steps)..this was to avoid having 13 steps.
thetoothfairyiscreepy
01-17-2010, 09:50 AM
generally, some older buildings don't have 13th floors because of the "bad luck" connotation. a lot of newer buildings have a 13th floor now.