What to do if the person in the room next to you snores

[hrh_disney_queen]

Sound machine is a great thing to have when staying at any hotel. It drowns out all of the aggravating sounds that go on. I highly suggest getting one... they have them at Walmart. I bring mine everytime, and sleep like a baby.

This is always the first thing on my packing list, in fact, I store it in my suitcase. I need white noise always, but in a hotel I can't block out anything. I also turn on the bathroom fan if possible.

As for the occupants of your own room, that is what God made elbows for.

 

[PHXscuba]

Earplugs, sound machines, whatever it takes.

I remember once a couple years ago DH and I were going to a fairly swank hotel for a business trip. I told him to bring the earplugs and he didn't take my advice, thinking the place was too nice for there to be any disturbances. Well, it was nice, but the car alarm in the adjacent parking lot at 4 a.m. wasn't! I popped my earplugs in and slept through the rest, but apparently the alarm went off for over an hour!

I've used earplugs on camping trips with bugs and streams, in hotels rooms with thin walls and noisy air conditioners, in Jamaica on "Heroes Day" with the all-night parties around our resort, at my parents' when my half-deaf insomniac father plays the TV too loud. I NEVER leave home without them.

PHXscuba

 

[Orangeandwild]

You could always leave the tv on very low to block out someone's snoring throgh the wall that would drown out the noise. The bathrooms in most resorts also have a fan you could leave on overnight which provides a constant sound which might help

 

[rlduvall]

My DH snores so bad, I'm exhausted most of the time while we travel since I can't move rooms. Even earplugs don't help me. I'm seriously considering 2 rooms at a value resort next time so DD9 and I can have one room and DS13 and DH have the other.

I live this 'nightmare' too. Luckily, my DH doesn't love Disney as much as my DS9 and I do and I have learned to leave him at home and enjoy my time without him [crowds make him cranky anyway]. At my age, I need my beauty sleep.

 

[mkymouse4ever]

Well at the YC a few years ago, a family member of mine [who snores, terribly] was going to town, I of course being wide awake [could not sleep through it either. When, a pounding came through our walls. The neighbors, I guess couldn't sleep either. Wakes up said family member, and scared them. Asked what happened, and I couldn't stop laughing. I said roll over again & knock it off.

 

[Poohbear123]

Earplugs, sound machines, whatever it takes.

I remember once a couple years ago DH and I were going to a fairly swank hotel for a business trip. I told him to bring the earplugs and he didn't take my advice, thinking the place was too nice for there to be any disturbances. Well, it was nice, but the car alarm in the adjacent parking lot at 4 a.m. wasn't! I popped my earplugs in and slept through the rest, but apparently the alarm went off for over an hour!

I've used earplugs on camping trips with bugs and streams, in hotels rooms with thin walls and noisy air conditioners, in Jamaica on "Heroes Day" with the all-night parties around our resort, at my parents' when my half-deaf insomniac father plays the TV too loud. I NEVER leave home without them.

PHXscuba

Me neither, they are GREAT! I once slept in a bathtub to escape my DH's snoring in Savannah Ga. My DS woke up and wondered WHY I was sleeping in the tub!

 

[Letsbgoofy]

Another vote for a sound machine - I never travel without mine. I never hear people in the rooms next door once it's on.

If the snoring is in your room - elbows work great as does shaking the pillow (or just turn the volume on the sound machine way up).

 

[Collette]

I'm curious if those of you who have heard any noise next door (snoring, children, bathroom, etc.) were in a connecting room?

During one stay at POFQ, I heard really noisy children late at night. I thought they were outside my room on the walkway. When I got up to look there was no one there! Listening by the connecting doors I couldn't believe how much I could hear.

Since then unless my family is with me and we have connecting rooms, I have always requested non-connecting rooms. And I always bring along a small fan to set on the nightstand.

 

[luvthemouse71]

I bring earplugs and they work pretty well for me..but I usually am so tired by the end of the day that I sleep like a brick!!

BTW, I'm in the market for a sound machine, especially one that makes ocean sounds, and is portable. Anyone have any recommendations?

 

[P.I. Squirrel]

We always take a fan with us at POP. It cures the white noise issue, and helps with the temp in the room. We like it cold.

 

[luvthemouse71]

My dh used to be the one people could hear snoring from another room. Then he went for a sleep study and it turns out he has apnea and stops breathing something like 20 times an hour. Now he has a CPAP machine and we all sleep better. Not much you can do if it's in another room except ask to be moved or get some earplugs but if it's in your room, maybe have a medical professional check it out.

This is an excellent point...sleep apnea is actually a pretty big deal. The anesthesiologists/anesthetists I work with make it a point to question surgical patients about it. Sleep apnea can be dangerous, it puts stress on your body. It can contribute to heart disease. Many of the surgical patients with sleep apnea go to a step down unit post-op, so they can be monitored closely.

My dad has an appointment with the sleep clinic. My mom had told me my dad snores terribly, was starting to doze off randomly at times! I asked my dad many times to mention this to his doctor-finally, he listened to me.

Many people that start on a CPAP machine will tell you that they feel like new people, because they are finally getting restful sleep.

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

My MIL snored so loudly in the room next door, that it kept my mom and daughter awake at AS Music. I was in the 3rd room, connected to their room. They came and got me so that I could listen. UNBELIEVABLE noise.

My DH said that he was immune to it since he grew up with his mother's snoring.

My DD stills talks about her grandma's snoring during that trip.

 

[winterman]

I always sleep with a white noise machine. One time we stayed in a room (not at Disney) that was next to the elevator and across from the ice machine. Even there we slept undisturbed.

 

[ladyvet]

Here's my noise story...

I was on a Carnival cruise one time, and was awakened by someone vomiting! I thought it was roommate it was so loud, but it was someone next door.

Otherwise, I've been pretty lucky with noiseless neighbors.

Enjoy your breakfast
Beth

 

[ma2jr]

Open the patio door a few times till he/she wakes up... then go back to bed

 

[Miaka]

This is an excellent point...sleep apnea is actually a pretty big deal. The anesthesiologists/anesthetists I work with make it a point to question surgical patients about it. Sleep apnea can be dangerous, it puts stress on your body. It can contribute to heart disease. Many of the surgical patients with sleep apnea go to a step down unit post-op, so they can be monitored closely.

My dad has an appointment with the sleep clinic. My mom had told me my dad snores terribly, was starting to doze off randomly at times! I asked my dad many times to mention this to his doctor-finally, he listened to me.

Many people that start on a CPAP machine will tell you that they feel like new people, because they are finally getting restful sleep.

Could also be a deviated Septum. Both my dad and my brother were champion snorers until they had it taken care of. I could hear my dad OUTSIDE if he was sleeping, it was amazing.

But as to the original question. I can't sleep without noise (have a fan running all year) but I plan on taking my Ipod and sleeping in headphones to aleviate the "silence" problems, as well as our battery powered portable fan.

 

[CNYGuy]

We bring a white noise machine every time...helps with the kids who go to sleep a little early for a resort (usually by 9 PM). Blocks out neighbor noise, snoring, ice machine, not the fireworks though...

 

[goofy4tink]

What about if the person IN your room snores?????

Drugs!! Gotta love my Lunesta.
Otherwise, take a Benedryl..that helps to get to sleep as well.
Do the resort clock/radios have white noise on them? I know some hotels/resorts have those..it's very nice.

 

[kaffinito]

I am going to apologize right away for my DB. He snores like a freight train on steroids.

He, DSIL and their two kids are staying at BCV in August. I apologize in advance for the noise.

 

[mickey2minnie1]

On our last night at the Poly a family checked in next to ours. At two in the morning their little one was still screaming, crying, and jumping from bed to bed. If it wasn't our last night, we would have asked to be moved. It was awful. Luckily my kids slept through it, my DH and I just got through it.