No rooms numbered 113/213 in motels?

[Like_Herod]

I'm travelling around the US at the moment, staying in a lot of motels as I go, and it's just occurred to me that none of them have rooms numbered 113/213.

Is this just superstition? Seems odd to me!

[Zee.]

Elevators don't have the number 13, so maybe

[Mathor]

13 is an unlucky number, so 13,113,213,313, etc etc are not in hotels, and neither is there a 13th floor on elevators or hotels because of superstition. The superstition, i believe, comes from The Bible. There were 13 Apostles, and according to a lot of tradition Judas was the 13th to sit at the table, having betrayed Jesus.

EDIT: also, I forgot Apollo 13 was the only Apollo mission to fail. Go figure.

[billl]

I know a fancy, expensive apartment building in a progressive area near DC where the (local-gov't mandated or something) special low-rent residences are room number 13 on each floor. It's a great program to integrate some of the more "working-class" residents. I don't know why the building didn't just skip 13 though, like they might've otherwise.

[Nightshade]

I know that a lot of streets here will not have a house number 13, which can get confusing at times becasue a) they dont number all the houses and b) you are never sure what kind of road you are on.

[Like_Herod]

That's really quite interesting. I've never noticed it before in the UK but then I don't really stay in hotels there and it's rare I'd go into a building with as many as 13 floors. I do know that we usually have houses numbered 13 though, so maybe it's just the case that suspicion isn't such a big deal?

[Niamh]

In the A&E in my local hospital they have two bed 12s instead of a 12 and 13.