How to opt out of adjoining hotel rooms?

[Mattg]

One thing I dislike with hotels is when you book a single room and get given an adjoining room. Sure, the door between the rooms is locked on both sides, but you can still hear a lot of the noise coming from the neighbouring room.

Do the main hotel chains offer a way to state in your preferences that you don’t want an adjoining room?

 

[RooFlyer]

With Accor, you can add free text of preferences with each booking - such as "Away from elevators" , so I guess you could also ask there, but given most of the check-n staff don't seem to know the basic lay-outs of their hotels, it probably wouldn't be effective.

 

[SYD]

Might one scenario where OLCI could be useful - assuming the floor shows which rooms are not “adjoining”?