How considerate are your hotel neighbors?

[DisneyPhD]

This is thread is inspired by peoples opinions about a baby briefly crying at night.

It seems to me that people sure have better luck (or expectations) of their resort or hotel neighbors being considerate of others.

As much as I try to be and teach my children to be, It appears I never get considerate neighbors, (or get a lot of bad ones who make the good ones go unnoticed more likely the case.)

Here is some of my examples.

At 11:30 at night I hear a lot of talking and yelling outside my room, this goes on for 10 min so I open the door to see what is happening and around a dozen preteens are seated outside our room taking up the whole hall way just talking and playing around (one was actually resting on my door.) They looked at me like I was the one doing something strange when I told them we were sleeping and to leave. (this was in a hotel in Canada.)

The people in the one bedroom below us at OKW (we were in the studio) came home at 3:00 am and started partying, loud music, yelling dancing. I couldn't believe it, in what world is this ok? I called front desk and it was taken care of with in 5 min of the call, I could hear the CM come up and knock on the door. (good for OKW, that is a big place.)

I think our worst night was at Yacht club. Not only did we have people yelling (in other languages all hours of the night, all night) drunk people in the halls there was a group from England (you could tell by there accent, we could hear everything they were saying perfectly clear.) that was so loud all night. I banged on the door and asked them to keep it down, called the front desk twice (they came up but the people just never answered the door) they kept this up for hours. I was 8 months pregnant and mad as I could be.

Once at motel in Mackinaw City our lock door neighbors moved in at 11:30 at night. There toddler or older child played with the lock door for 15 min yelling and screaming until I finally banged on it and told him to leave it alone. I hope I scared the pants of him. I know that was mean but who lets there kid play with the lock door like that. I woke in a start thinking someone was breaking into my room.

We had a room next to the stairwell in one non Disney resort (in MI.) Were felt jipped by the place to start with, (we are so spoiled by Disney.) People were running up and down the stairs all night (and morning.) slamming doors, yelling.)

There has been a number of crying babies, but honestly that doesn't bother me. While I teach my kids not to run up and down hotel corridors, I do understand young kids enthusiasm to be at WDW and get to see Mickey so I try not to be bothered by them. (especailly after say 7:00 am and before 10:00 or 11:00 pm.)

It really is the rude (and most likely drunk) adults that gets to me.

How about you guys? I know I am not the only one that gets the unfortunate experience of being near people who don't have any consideration for the fact that hotel and resorts rooms are full of other people. (especially after certain times at night.)

Let's hear about some of those times that you got the wrost hotel neigboor before (so I don't feel like such a jerk magent!) Vent away. Thanks for listening to mine!

 

[HayGan]

Being that I travel alot for work, I have plenty of hotel horror stories but unfortunately most of them are inappropriate for a board such as this The worst experience I ever had was at a very nice hotel in Beijing, China where some business men had some special local visitors I had to have my room moved as it was soooooooooooo bad

I can't stand when people insist on having loud conversations in the hall or screaming down the hall after 2am! It really is annoying especially when you have a client meeting at 8am

 

[AllyandJack]

I had been really lucky.....until we stayed at the Polynesian. There was a family on the floor. We had an adjoining room with who-knows-who, yet this family was spread out over the entire floor. Kids at one end...granparents at the other...uncles, aunts, cousins, step-cousins, friends of friends of friends. They would yell to each other and use the door lock thing to prop the doors open, so we'd hear BANG! BANG! as they paid visits to each other. They played in the hallway...hockey...basketball...at all hours of the day and night. They moved their patio furniture into the hallway and had it set up like a restaurant. I called the front desk and was told that I was welcome to find another resort on property if I wasn't happy at the Polynesian. I packed my bags and left for the Grand Floridian.

Then, I hit another lucky streak (well, except for getting a crappy room at AKL that had me up against the staircase....that's not the guests' fault though, so it doesn't count).

Then, I stayed at The Swan. Drunk people next door. One guy was in the bathroom and his companion thought it would be funny to bang on the wall while he was in there. Then I'd hear the guy from the bathroom laughing and yelling about how it wasn't funny. Then, there would be more banging. I was ready to go over there, but DH told me to call the front desk. After what happened at the Polynesian, I wanted to take care of it myself (insert knuckle cracking here). But, DH won and we called the front desk and they came up and put a stop to the nonsense.

So, for The Swan staff and shame on you at the Polynesian.

 

[Planogirl]

One of our worst experiences was at a hotel where of all things a large religious youth group was staying. These kids went absolutely wild. They were running all over the hotel, screaming and carrying on and their chaperones were nowhere to be found.

We tried to ignore it for as long as we could but sometime past midnight we'd finally had enough and checked out and went elsewhere. The hotel staff said that the kids wouldn't listen to them when we left. Personally, I would have called the police.

We've had other incidents: loud teens at the Allstars, a kid of about 5 or 6 that screamed until pretty late every night at the Polynesian, people upstairs at various hotels that sounded like they were bowling. I blame a lot of this on not only obnoxious jerks but also poor construction.

 

[TDC Nala]

Here I am again with this complaint. This goes out to all my neighbors on multiple stays at Pop Century. I dont' recall it happening at other resorts.

If you're going to prop the room door open on the security latch so that you or your kids can run in and out of the room without opening the door every time, please wrap a washcloth around the latch first so it doesn't wham! every time the door shuts.

I do recall a response to that from a person who stated that they are awakened by the likes of me coming in from PI at 2 AM and opening and closing the room door. Not slamming it, mind you...but opening and closing it normally. I can't really fathom the solution to that one, since I never know what time my neigbors want to go to bed, so I'll continue to open and shut the door.

 

[DisneyPhD]

The hotel that the teens were camped outside my room was a "indoor amusment park" and the whole place was crazy. They actaully had staff or "security" walking the halls. We were with a large group, and I know we were pretty crazy (12 kids 5 and under with 12 parents) but did quiet down at 10:00 pm.

One thing about WDW resorts is for the most part I have found they take care of problems really fast (like in OKW) and I don't hesitate to call anymore.

So sorry Poly was that about about it. YC wasn't very good for us either.

Funny the most quiet places we have been at recenlty was PORS (1st floor) and SSR 1st floor also. Go figure! (we have never stayed at a value, mostly because of fear of nosiey groups, but they happen at any resort I think.)

Not too many of the problems that HayGan mentioned (at least not a WDW. ) I think people are too tried from the days at the parks.

 

[Pixiedust34]

people upstairs at various hotels that sounded like they were bowling.

I always request the top floor when I can. I've had my fill of kids bouncing like Tigger right over our heads when we're trying to sleep. I'd rather use the stairs or wait for an elevator than put up with that again.

 

[Brianne]

The only complaint I have were the paper-thin walls at GF. The neighbor must've opened & closed (more like slamming it, really) the sliding closet door 10 or 15 times within 10 minutes....at 5:30 in the morning.

We've gotten lucky for the most part. *knock on wood*

 

[Marseeya]

At our stay at AKL, it was so quiet, I could have sworn we were the only ones on our wing! We were on the 2nd floor and couldn't hear anything above us. Towards the end of our stay, we got neighbors on one side of us that had a rowdy tot, but we could only hear the child from the balcony, which was only the mildest of annoyances in the grand scheme of things. I have to say, that stay really spoiled us. I was worried, too, from everything I'd read before our trip. With some of my health problems, I couldn't afford to lose any sleep due to loud neighbors. It would have totally ruined my trip.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I've had some real humdingers! Like the drunk people at Wilderness Lodge who were on their balcony early into the morning talking VERY loudly and their child was allowed to open and bang close the drawers from their tv cabinet again and again and again... until very late. We did call security eventually when it was well past the normal noise catagory. They quieted down for a little while and then started back up. We had a hard time being quiet the next morning, however and found (nothing that would bother other people, we just found the connecting door facinating...).

Another time there were VERY loud kids obviously left alone at Pop Century when my son and I were there. I didn't wait too long to call security with that room number.

Also, in New York City at an Embassy Suites. Security was called and they were quick to take action and they made sure that the people (teens it sounded like) stayed quiet. That was the best situation as far as the hotel believing us right away, taking action, and following up.

I realize that some noise is normal in a hotel and I'm perfectly fine with that. I don't expect silence and I bring earplugs to wear when sleeping. I'm talking about noise that is way beyond normal. Or that is so loud that we can't even hear our own tv if we are awake. A screaming baby during the night does happen and hopefully the people are trying to quiet the baby, but that's not something that they are trying to have happen (I didn't read that thread to know that situation).

 

[DisneyPhD]

I do recall a response to that from a person who stated that they are awakened by the likes of me coming in from PI at 2 AM and opening and closing the room door. Not slamming it, mind you...but opening and closing it normally. I can't really fathom the solution to that one, since I never know what time my neigbors want to go to bed, so I'll continue to open and shut the door.

I think there are certian noises that are just to be expected and there is nothing you can do about it. The sound of toleits flushing (those WDW are porwerful!) Doors opening and closing (not slaming.) foot steps in hallways, hushed voices, normal laughter (not loud.) T.V's on low. Babies crying for breif amounts of time. Kids using outside voices until an adults reminds them to be quiet. Also I expect more noises during day time hours. (and let my kids make a bit more "normal noises."

I try to let it go. I can't sleep in hotels because of most of these reason and am making sure I take some tylonal PM with me this time (but I must admit I sleep better at WDW because we are tried from all the fun.) I also don't mind being woken up by others earlier in the morning then I would wake at home because I am so excited to get up and moving myself!

 

[grinningghost]

I've never had any really bad hotel neighbors - but home neighbors - that's another story.

 

[Michie]

My worst experience~staying at hotel where there was 300 Red Hat ladies I had to be on the road about 6 a.m.. Did not get to sleep until about 4 a.m. due to the door slamming, cackling Was not happy!

 

[sajetto]

My worst experiences were last year at POP. An entire family decided to set up lawn chairs in the corridor and talk loudly until 3 am!

The other bad one was at a non-disney hotel. I couldn't believe it, but there was a teenage SLUMBER PARTY at this hotel. Very classy, very expensive so I'm guessing mommy and daddy had some serious cash. There were at least 13 teenage girls running up and down the halls giggling in the middle of the night. When we woke up the next morning the girls were passed out in one of the mutiple hotel community seating areas! They were all sleeping on the couches with boxes of pizza wide open, ,NO LIE!!!!!!!! Where the heck were the parents and why were they sleeping out there?!! They had a suite that ran $700 a night!

As you can tell, I was pretty miffed about the second one. For the life of me I don't see how hotel managment missed a group of 13 teenage girls passed out in a lobby.

 

[Feralpeg]

Our worst experience was at Coronado Springs. We were on the second floor of Castias 5. We were right near a "quiet" pool. People were standing on the balcony outside our room yelling to people in the pool. This was at 1am. When I went out to ask them to stop yelling, they said "No English". Funny, they were yelling to each other in English.

 

[Servants of Evan]

I always try to be more considerate to others than they are to me... but I'll admit that when I'm out on the road for some of my meetings I'm up at 05:00 and I need my alarm clock LOUD to wake me!

 

[Mackey Mouse]

I hope that I am very considerate.....we do not walk around in our shoes or sneakers when we are in the room for any length of time...we usually have slippers with us. We do not slam doors and just try to be considerate of our fellow neighbors. If we watch TV at night, we keep it down low enough so that we can hear it and not everyone else.

Staying in Savannah this past month, neighbors above us were very noisey. It was an older hotel so I spoke with concierge...she laughed and said I better move you tonight as I am putting champagne in their room and he is proposing to his girlfriend tonight at dinner. I laughed and thought if I thought they were noisey before wait till they start celebrating their engagement, we moved to the top floor. Thanks to that on-the-ball concierge person...

 

[katerkat]

At the hotel for my SIL's wedding, there was a girls' basketball group. They started knocking on ALL the doors at 1 am to see if their friends were in that room. At 7:30 am, my father caught them outside of my sister's room, about to knock. I don't want to know what he told them.

 

[debden]

Yes and all the above horror stories are why we stay in vacation homes offsite.So yes we do have a nice,quiet,pieceful,relaxing stay in our home away from home and I would not trade it for any of the 'onsite' hotels even if they offered it to me free.....
Debbie

 

[Mackey Mouse]

But Debden, what if they offered you the Walter E. Disney suite at the GF....you would not take it??