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I'm sorry, but I believe you should be considerate of other's while staying in hotel rooms!
Kids/Parents/Adults running talking loudly while in closed quarters very early in the morning or very late at night is extremely annoying. People pay big money to go on vacation and sleep, not to be annoyed or awaken by rude people. We always are considerate of other's.
Look, noisy neighbors may very well be annoying, but many of the things that wake you up in a hotel room (and I've stayed in many) are things like whoosing water, flushing toilets, ringing phones and closing doors. Are people not allowed to shower and leave because you could be sleeping? If I've got a 5 AM flight is it "rude" if I shower before departing at, say, 3 AM? And for those who say yes, is it then "rude" to be unshowered while practically sit on someone's lap in a tiny plane seat (or getting groped by TSA)?
A hotel is shared space so, by definition, you're going to be doing things at different times than people not on your exact schedule, and I'm sure that every single person who has been annoyed, has also annoyed someone else, even inadvertently. Some will get up early, some will go to bed late
And, when awake, it's inevitable that some noise may be made which someone else, a someone that may be trying to sleep, could hear. Again, not rude, just life.
Should you run through the halls knocking on doors and screaming at 4 AM (or anytime, really)? Of course not! But there's big difference between that and an excited youngster going on and on TO HER OWN PARENTS in THEIR OWN HOTEL ROOM, before they get going for the day, or excitedly talking about her day at Disney before bed.
I still clearly recall a night spent in a VERY expensive hotel room next door to a crying baby, well before I had children myself. Was it annoying when I was woken up multiple times by someone else's child and was paying $600/night for the privilege? Absolutely! Was it the hotel's fault? Not so much. Were they "bad parents" because their baby cried? Not even slightly, and it never crossed my mind that they were. Later, when I had my own little colicy dear, I remember thinking I probably should have gone over to rock the baby and let them sleep. They probably hadn't in a while and, what the heck, I was up.
It is not "rude" for your child to talk while in your hotel room. Sorry, it's just not. It sucks that Disney's architectural design was poor enough so that you can hear that next door, but it's still not "rude" of the family simply because you, another guest (they are guests too, remember), can tell they exist.
I do, actually, think it's rude to assume that everyone else must conform to your schedule, standards and desire to make YOUR vacation what you expect it to be. (And I'm not saying that's what the original poster was advocating, per se.) In short, it's not all about you (or me, or any one person) in any group experience like Disney. I sure as heck HOPE my son is jumping out of bed so excited that he can't stop talking about what he wants to do that day when we're at Disney World next week. It's called joy, and it's a good thing, and kind of the whole point of the trip, I might add.
When my oh-my-god-he-never-sleeps baby (and I) were woken up by our neighbor's fireworks at 9 PM the weekend after the 4th of July I was plenty annoyed, mostly because I hadn't slept in months, and he almost never did either. But, when I look and see it's 9 PM on a Friday night, in an area where fireworks are legal, then, no, it's not actually rude of them, even if they most certainly bugged me, and my child didn't fall back asleep for another three hours.
My point being: your, or my, right to quiet, doesn't trump their right to enjoyment.
The number of things dubbed "rude" or even more commonly, "bad parenting," on these boards absolutely crack me up.
According to posters here if your child isn't quiet, calm and still 24/7 AT DISNEY WORLD, for goodness sakes, you're a bad parent. Complaints about kids "acting up" in lines, in restaurants, in the parks, on rides, in hotels, in lobbies, on the monorail. ("If you can't control your child in line, you're a bad parent," "If your child can't hold still, you're a bad parent," "If your child doesn't sit still you're a bad parent." "If your child talks on a ride, you're a bad parent." "If your child accidentally bumps into me, you're a bad parent") Basically, everywhere you are, they are supposed to be seen-but-not-heard, apparently. I am frequently confused about whether we're talking about Victorian-era England or the Happiest Place on Earth.
I guarantee that every single finger-pointer here has been in MULTIPLE situations where their child melted down, squealed, ran away, whined, asked for something you had no intention of giving, had a fit, failed to use their indoor voice, wiggled, squiggled or otherwise acted less than perfectly in a way that disturbed someone else around you. If you haven't you're either A) childless or B) lying. I crack up each and every time I read the, "my child would never do that, because we wouldn't allow it" line. (Often, though not always, the parents who say things like this frequently have terribly behaved kids, but are simply too blind to deem anything their little angels do as "wrong.")
I don't claim to be, and don't think I am, a perfect parent. And goodness knows I don't have a perfect child. He's only 3 but he has already, MANY times, embarrassed me by acting out. You can bet I don't "allow" him to act that way, and we've had many a clenched mouth, under my breath stop-it-right-this-instant-or-else conversation in public, but that doesn't mean he won't do it again. And it usually gets worse when I follow through and discipline him. That might mean that if he's failing to listen/throwing a fit while we're in Disney World, that I have to carry him out, quite possibly kicking and screaming, because I warned him that would happen if he continued to behave that way, and he didn't listen.
It happened in a Hallmark store just last week. We had a conversation before going in about not touching and staying by my side. If he was good, he got to pick out an ornament. Well, he kept drifting off and picking things up. Gentle reminders ("Cooper, what did we talk about?" "Cooper, come here now") stopped working. Then he got two warnings and, when he failed to comply, his ornament went back on the shelf. What had a been a drifting, touching issue now became a total fit. I put my basket on the counter, apologized to the cashier and walked out with him kicking and screaming in my arms. Took him to the car for a time out followed by a chat. Said we were going back in to pay and he had to apologize to the staff, but he still wasn't getting the ornament. He did it, snuffling all the while. I have no doubt he'll do something similar many more times in his life. I'm not naive enough to think he's "cured."
Of course, you're just as likely to run into him when he's so sweet and polite you'll want to adopt him on the spot. As did the lady he approached out of the blue and said: "Excuse me mam, my name is Cooper, and I'm 3 years old, and I think you're nice because you look like a grandma." All on his own, no prompting or encouragement from me. (Luckily, she was 65 and not 35 or it might not have been so sweet.)
I'm the same parent in both scenarios, but I'm gonna' guess that the grandma-lady has a much more positive view of my parenting skills than the Hallmark store employees and patrons at this point.
Unlike the sentiment expressed here, my view of parenting is that 95% of parents are doing the best they can to raise good, decent, kind and considerate human beings, even if they approach things differently than I do. I worry about how I raise my own son, not how you raise yours.
The truth is, MOST kids are both devils and angels. It's just a question of when you catch them. And, I agree, if I'm still carrying my son out of stores with fits five years from now, we've got a problem. Expectations definitely will, and should, change with age.
Spend more time worrying about what YOU do and less about what others do "TO" you and you'll be a whole lot happier. For instance, in the situation described here, you can't control someone else's family--and let's assume for a minute they were out-of-control hillbillies with no regard for anyone but themselves--so if it's bothering you so much, move yours. Problem solved and a whole lot more productive than complaining about what "bad parents" your neighbors are.
Sorry for the rant ... It is NOT meant as a diatribe against the original poster, because I've found the sentiments expressed in the follow-up messages here to be endemic. Feel free to point out all the ways I'm wrong, wrong, wrong and rude, rude, rude and give all the parenting advice you desire. That's your right and I promise not to elaborate again. I've more than had my say.
and good thoughts your way! I hope things get better for you guys! 
Wed-Sun evenings there is live entertainment at Scat Cats. POFQ/POR are sister resorts, so if you want to use the pools at POR it's allowed. There's also a boat to DTD, which is very relaxing.
