Wikipedia says:
The idiom "red herring" is used to refer to something that misleads or distracts from the relevant or important issue.It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or characters towards a false conclusion. A red herring might be intentionally used, such as in mystery fiction or as part of a rhetorical strategy (e.g. in politics), or it could be inadvertently used during argumentation as a result of poor logic. The origin of the expression is not known. Conventional wisdom has long supposed it to be the use of a kipper (a strong-smelling smoked fish) to train hounds to follow a scent, or to divert them from the correct route when hunting; however, modern linguistic research suggests that the term was probably invented in 1807 by English polemicist William Cobbett, referring to one occasion on which he had supposedly used a kipper to divert hounds from chasing a hare, and was never an actual practice of hunters. The phrase was later borrowed to provide a formal name for the logical fallacy and literary device.
No there is no stinky smell here. This is a 3.5 star hotel. There are 8 rooms in this grand hotel. You just need to find the correct "room" and its occupant. The occupant will be sleeping in a container with a traditional official geocaching logo printed on white paper NOT RED Paper. There is only one correct room/bed/occupant.
I hope you have fun visiting.
This is another winter friendly cache!
Congratulations to VIP Adventurers for the First to Find