How considerate are your hotel neighbors?

[DisDarling]

I feel we are very considerate- we dont let the kids run, we make sure the tv volume is decent, and we shower at a respectable time in the morning.

 

[Disney Doll]

I can't say I've had any awful experiences. None that stand out in my mind anyhow.

I am a pretty heavy sleeper, so a noise would have to be fairly loud to awaken me.

I do try and be considerate of others when I am in a hotel...I tend to speak loudly, as I talk to older, hard of heairng people all day, so I really try and modulate my voice in a hotel.

 

[MouseWorshipin]

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

They were Wrestling weren't they!? Only people who visit China will get this. The hotels have signs in the elevators about No Drugs Taking, No Prostitutions, No Wrestling!

In Singapore cabs they also have signs for NO GUM CHEWING! This is a big concern, I guess. (They do NOT allow dirt in Singapore.)

 

[aprilgail2]

One hotel in there was a VERY noisy party going on until all hours of the night...problem is that it was MY family that was the problem!! Finally security came and made them shut up LOL...I was in my own room trying to sleep, I was not part of the drinking and noise....it was a family wedding and they rented the extra room for everyone to hang out in and stocked it with drinks and food so all out of town guests for the wedding would have some place to hang out....only problem was they forgot they were not the only people in that hotel!! We used to have family reunion vacations every year and go to these cabins in PA...they had about 12 cabins there and we usually rented them all...one year one family couldn't go so that cabin was rented to another family...I felt so sorry for them because they were so outnumbered..we took over the entire place!
Bad neighbors I have had I really can't recall anything terrible other than being near a door between corridors and the darn thing opened and closed all night long, and that same hotel we were near the ice machine and people at 3am were there getting ice, talking loudly etc..very noisy.....after that and being stuck in a room next to some guy that was snoring loud enough to wake the dead (I can't believe another human could be in the same room as some of these snorers and actually sleep!)numerous times I now travel with a noise machine to drown out all noises like that.

 

[southernbella]

When I was about 6 months pregnant with oldest DD, DH & I (big NJ DEvils hockey fans) found out that the 2nd game of the Stanley Cup was being played in Dallas (Stars vs Devils). So we got the bright idea to drive to Dallas, watch the game, spend the night & drive home (from Alabama). Not being familiar with Dallas, we got a hotel in a "safe looking" part of town. Big mistake.

We wanted a room with a jacuzzi tub in it. The "tub" was a huge party-size jacuzzi like you would see in someone's backyard. It took up most of the room. After we stopped , we decided to make the best of things.

About 2 in the morning, I wake up to someone beating on the next door neighbors door, screaming & carrying on. Turns out, the "gentleman" at the door was the husband & brother to the couple inside the room. The argument went on until 4:30 in the morning! Hotel management would do nothing. The husband finally decided to just wait in his car for them to come out. He was still waiting when we left the next morning. SBella

 

[Saffron]

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!

Oh my gosh! The thought of that just made me roar out loud laughing! It's like something of a G rated nightmare.

 

[debden]

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

OK Mackey Mouse you got me actually considering that one! (As long as I get the whole top floor to myself!!)
Debbie

 

[ducklite]

We were in an Embassy Suites near Cleveland, OH and there was a large family reunion going on with a lot of unruly kids, drunks, it was just terrible. They were smoking all over the non-smoking floors, throwing beer cans over the balcony into the atrium area below, just nasty pigs from hell. We complained and complained and the hotel wouldn't do anything. They finally moved us to a new room but the phone didn't work. I madr a complaint to the local BBB and to the Hilton corporate ofices when we got home, they of course then couldn't bend over backwards to apologize enough, but it was too little too late and we'd never go back.

In Hershey, PA at the Hilton Garden Inn there was a school group, the kids next door were laughing and carrying on all night. Again the phone in our room was broken and at 4:00am I went down to the lobby and told the night manager if he didn't get the noise to stop I"d call the police. The night manager gave me all sorts of grief and told me he'd kick me out for calling the police--he said they had chaperones on every floor. I asked him if he knew the chaperone on our floor had a pile of empty beer bottles next to the chair he was passed out in. Of course he didn't the guy was as smart as a bag of sand. He went upstairs with me, and then another chaperone showed up and gave me a "kids will be kids" remark, I told her that she needed to have the "kids" go sleep in HER room then. Long story short the head of the group ended up making the boys apologize to me in the morning. I called the GM the next day and he was less than helpful, so I called Hilton and complained. ABout a week later the GM called me again apologizing, his night manager had conveniently forgotten to tell him about the incident. I told him that maybe he should have been more apologetic when I called him the first time instead of blowing me off, because that showerd his true colors, and I hung up on him. I do'nt have the time to waste on people who's parents didn't have children who lived.

We were in a B&B and the couple next to us were, um, enjoying each other all night long. About 3:00am my husband banged on their door and asked if he could join, because they were already sharing their love life with the entire place.

We were at the Polynesian, and these kids were running up and down the halls all night long. We ignored it until about midnight, then DH stuck his head out the door and told them in no uncertain terms to go to their room, now, before he called security.

There have been plenty of other times as well. We try to be as quiet as we can in hotels, keep talking in the hallways to a minimum , etc. We're sorry if we woke you up on NYE at 2:00am, we would have been back to SSR a lot earlier except for the HUGE traffic jam at DTD that caused us to wait forever for a bus.

Anne

 

[azgal81]

We stayed next to the loudest family ever awhile back. They were screaming at each other (I think all they ever do is fight or at least it seemed that way) and crying at 2 am in there room. It was so loud that yes we could hear them through the wall. Finally I just sat up in the bed and yelled as loud as I could shut the fu** up!! That worked thankfully. Luckily they were there at the end of our trip so we only had one night with that crap. Who yells on vacation anywayse.

I have never had any other really bad experiences I can usually fall asleep pretty easily and sleep through other racket but that was just insane.

 

[DVC-Don]

This was back in the early 1980's in Wells Beach, Maine. We had some roudy neighbors so the next evening when we were going out I got the PBS station out of Boston (2) that was broadcasting The Lawrence Welk Show on the TV and turned up all the way up.

 

[dolphinrescuegirl]

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 [/QUOTE]

When we evacuated because of Hurricane Rita this was a major problem for us as well. Not to mention that my cats were already scared and I was sick as a dog!! My cat and I tend to get extremely sick when exposed to that much stress

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I am thankful I am a sound sleeper.

I don't recall hardly any (if any incidence) of loud neighbors other than ordinary cannot be avoided noise.

 

[delilah]

I can only remember one time that noise disrupted my sleep at a hotel, and that was when I was staying overnight before taking my board exam. It sounded like the people upstairs were bowling or moving furniture all night. Then, about 2am, it was people coming back from drinking. But, in all honesty, I might have been a little keyed up about my exam.

The worst display of bad behavior was the young couple we saw last May-June at SSR. We were at the Congress Park pool, and, apparently, this was a couple of honeymooners. We were there in the late afternoon/early evening. The woman was dressed in a skimpy bathing suit--think mini skirt over thong. The skirt was so short it didn't cover any of her bottom. The back said "Juicy". (My brother got alot of mileage out of commenting on that one.) We were there with my brothers and all the kids, aged 3-7. There weren't alot of other people there, maybe one other family with kids. The honeymoon couple went over to the hot tub area and proceeded to do things that really should only be done in one's own room. I love my husband, too, but really. Finally, we all decided we had a enough and left. Didn't want to have to answer my 7yo questions.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

The honeymoon couple went over to the hot tub area and proceeded to do things that really should only be done in one's own room. I love my husband, too, but really. Finally, we all decided we had a enough and left. Didn't want to have to answer my 7yo questions.

I don't like to complain about other guests but that would have done it for me! Of course my DH would have moved his chair over to the hot tub area, gotten himself some popcorn and watched the movie.