According to reviews in 1911 trade publications, this brief film featured comedic situations that confronted a "stage-struck young lady" who desired to become a professional entertainer.

In September 1911, when Powers Moving Picture Company distributed its split-reel copies of Lost in a Hotel and An Old-Time Nightmare, this comedy comprised the first half of all the shared reels released.

In its October 7 issue, the trade journal The Moving Picture World compliments the "speedy comedy" for evoking "several laughs" and curtly ending its assessment with "It is commendable.

Powers Moving Picture Company continued producing films as a single, independent studio for only seven months after the release of Lost in a Hotel.

[11][c] It is more likely, however, that subsequent studio managers deemed this short and its split-reel companion An Old-Time Nightmare to be inconsequential releases by a short-lived, secondary production company and were discarded or perhaps were simply left unattended and allowed to decay and disintegrate over time.