What do you do with loud neighbors at resorts?

[DawnM]

Right now we don't have a problem. The loud people are a ways down from us but when we are outside we can hear them. I would hate to be next to them or below them!

We have only had a huge problem ONCE! We were staying at a Westgate property and the family moved in at 4am VERY LOUDLY. Yelling, banging, etc......then they continued to be loud the next night until almost 3am.

We called the front desk about 8 times during those 2 days.

FINALLY we convinced the front desk to move us. But we lost 2 nights of good sleep on vacation, which was not a good thing and did cause issues with enjoying Disney.

What issues have you had?

 

[soniam]

I usually just say something to them in person. Sometimes people don't realize they are being loud. If you do it very nicely, most people actually get embarrassed.

 

[Detailor]

This hasn't happened to us very often but, when it has, we've called either the front desk - as you did - or security to handle the problem. My feeling is that this type of behavior is a problem of the resort's and their staff is paid to handle such things.

Dick Taylor

 

[jcota]

Give security a call. If they fail to do their jobs call the police

 

[Gina-Gina-Bo-Bina]

This hasn't happened to us very often but, when it has, we've called either the front desk - as you did - or security to handle the problem. My feeling is that this type of behavior is a problem of the resort's and their staff is paid to handle such things.

+1

And if they fail to resolve the issue as a result of the first call, I have no hesitation in calling a second (or third) time.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

We had that problem at a hotel once. A couple across the hall was having a loud and very colorful argument. She said, "You're just a big meanie." He said, "Fine, I'll leave but not until you give me my pants." She said, "You're too much of a girl to wear pants." He said, "Damn it Dolly! I'm a man! Now let me put my pants on!" When they started banging things around in the room, I called the front desk. A security guard knocked on their door and said, "Keep it down." A few minutes later they were fighting over the pants again. Other people must have called because security came back. This time the guy said, "Don't worry, I'm leaving right now," and then we heard the door close. I don't know if he left with his pants on or not!

 

[dancin Disney style]

We have had many bad hotel neighbours. I think I have a curse.

The absolute worst happened to be at a WDW resort. We had a room with the connecting door and the people on the other side came in very late in the evening....maybe 1am. They woke us all up slamming the room door and then slamming the dresser drawers. The next morning they started again at about 6am but this time they were slamming doors and yelling at crying children. So my DH got up to use the washroom and (I swear this was an accident) he tripped and put his hand up to stop from falling. Well, his hand with all his weight went onto that connecting door. It made a huge bang and low and behold we never heard another peep from those neighbours.


We had another really bad one at a non WDW hotel where the people next door were letting their infant cry it out....for about 90 minutes in the middle of the night. It was such a cruel thing, I was really tempted to knock on their door. The poor little one was crying in the way that their body goes blood red and they don't breath while they cry because you get a blast of screaming and then the gasp for air. IMO, that's neglect to let it go on for so long. I saw them in the hall the next day and that baby was no more than 2 months old.

 

[Mambo Junkie]

We have had excellent luck with WDW neighbors. The worst experience we ever had was with a timeshare about a mile off property. The kitchen and hallway had tile floors and the kids must have had those shoes with the roller skates or a luggage cart or something. They talked and screamed loudly and never went anywhere except to the pool where you could not enjoy the balcony for all the screaming. It made me always request top floor away from a pool. We did not have a problem but when we stayed at Caribbean Beach we had a lake view room. Whenever we'd leave we could hear loud screaming coming from the pool in a section across the lake. I felt sorry for anyone staying in that section.

Edit to add: we just left OKW yesterday and we were having breakfast on the balcony. My little granddaughters decided to arrange the chairs to make a fort but were scraping them very loudly across the tiles. I told them to stop, that we had downstairs neighbors but my son said they had left a couple of days ago. About an hour later when we were leaving to go home we were coming down the stairs and our downstairs neighbor was coming out of her room. I apologized profusely and told her that my son had assured me that there was no one downstairs. She laughed and said it was ok and I told her we were leaving so no worries about a repeat. I was so embarrassed.

 

[bankr63]

It does seem odd that people can be so oblivious to their surroundings. We had a situation at a resort one year where a group in their late 20's were having a get together in their unit. This was a few buildings away, and though I wouldn't have wanted to be in adjoining unit, it wasn't that bothersome across the pond. They kept the windows closed so there was only a little sound leakage.

That is until 2am when a couple decided to have an argument, and stepped out onto the balcony to have it in "private". Well private was oblivious to the probably several hundred people with windows open listening to every bitter word. Or in my case half the words. I closed the window, set the a/c, and drifted back off to sleep. I suppose someone may have called security, I just blocked it out.

 

[soniam]

If people are arguing or fighting, I would call security/the police. I wouldn't want to get accidentally injured on someone else's domestic dispute. If I felt threatened by the situation, I would let someone else handle it. However, if they are just noisy, I just ask nicely first.

We did this in Hawaii. A family moved into the condo next to ours. Their first morning they were up early talking on their patio. They probably didn't realize that their patio was right next to our bedroom slider, which was open for the breeze. I just stepped out, nicely explained the situation, and asked if they could keep it down. They were very apologetic and embarrassed. We never heard another peep our entire stay. I would have felt bad if I had involved the police, and there was no general office to really call.

 

[ready2vacation]

Reminds me of my husband's and my one and only cruise (never to embark again...). 8 night Caribbean cruise with an unexpected bout of severe weather which caused the ship to rock profusely most of the trip. Every time the ship would rock our bathroom floor would creak....yeah, pretty much like the ship was breaking in half lol...but the first night it did that our rocket scientist next door neighbor evidently thought my husband and I were *ahem* very active and started banging profusely on the wall. We still laugh about it years later, but spend our time on land now.

On a side note, we are also older parents and have a 3 year old. She has extreme/violent night terrors on occasion so we choose to stay offsite in a villa so that hopefully everyone can sleep in peace - particularly our neighbors

 

[Sadie22]

On our last vacation the desk clerk made a point of putting us in a quiet room. It was great until a large family group arrived to use the three rooms across the hall. They kept their room doors open, going in and out and talking loudly in the hallway and calling to each other. After a while they were going in and out but letting the doors slam, and one husband and wife was having a very loud discussion in the hallway. DH was in bed. I opened our door in my nightgown and encountered an older gentleman leaving his room. I put my finger over my lips and closed the door. They all got quiet and stayed quiet after that. I didn't have to say anything.

 

[Princess Disney Mom]

I use a white noise app on my iPhone. That helps some. Avoiding connecting rooms help too.

 

[ncdj2013]

I always have earplugs.

 

[patman]

Give security a call. If they fail to do their jobs call the police

Call the police because someone is being loud? Do you think they may have something more important to do? And being loud in a hotel room
is not breaking a law.

 

[Gina-Gina-Bo-Bina]

Call the police because someone is being loud? Do you think they may have something more important to do? And being loud in a hotel room
is not breaking a law.

I don't know about your city, but ours has noise bylaws. You are absolutely within your right to call the police if someone is being loud outside of the permitted hours. I don't know if that would apply to someone being loud in a hotel/resort room or not, but in general principle...yep, police can be summoned to address someone causing a (noise) disturbance.

 

[Mambo Junkie]

I don't know about your city, but ours has noise bylaws. You are absolutely within your right to call the police if someone is being loud outside of the permitted hours. I don't know if that would apply to someone being loud in a hotel/resort room or not, but in general principle...yep, police can be summoned to address someone causing a (noise) disturbance.

We have it too. We have an ordinance that if your dog is outside and barks for more than 10 minutes consecutively regardless of time of day you may call. It's a shame we need laws requiring us to be considerate of each other but there it is.

 

[ToddyLu]

Our worst incident was at WDW...one of the value resorts. The family in the room adjoining ours was up about 4-5 a.m. with screaming kids at the top of their lungs because Mom was brushing their hair. The screaming was continous for probably 30 minutes. DH slept through it the first morning, I got to hear every screech. The second morning he was up and after about 10 minutes of it he said," yep, that is a bit excessive", so we called security. We heard security knock on the door and not a word afterwards.

For the person who said security didn't need to come for noise disturbance....really?

 

[ep4244]

My only loud WDW hotel neighbors were my own kids and their friends. After 3 warnings and the girls still wouldn't quiet down, and let me say those 4 teens could be really loud, I called security on them. After security stopped by their room they came barreling thru the connecting door and you could see the fear in their eyes. After they went back to their own room I laughed myself silly, but I didn't hear a peep them the rest of the 2 week trip.

 

[pampam]

ep4244, I love it.