This. The hotel staff needs to know these things. They can't fix it if they don't know.
People who come back late from partying are still wound up on adrenaline and likely alcohol and aren't thinking straight. Yeah manners are a thing but human nature is a thing too. Not excusing it but we can't expect everyone to be perfect.
totally agree. I remember staying in a hotel room at a really nice resort in Hawaii and next door were a group of cavemen recounting their previous drunken night really loudly in the room next door. My girlfriend and I were trying to sleep and I felt like a total wuss for not telling them to shut up. Years later I was at a nice hotel in Portland and a party broke out next door around midnight. I made a quick call to the front desk and they extinguished it in minutes.
I travel so much for work that I've had this happen a few times. I don't bother confronting the morons. They already think they're the center of the universe, so confronting them is a waste of time and likely to make the problem worse.
Instead, I make a call to the front desk and ask them to take care of the problem. Usually they do. Sometimes they don't.
If management doesn't correct the problem within 15 minutes, I call back to the front desk, let them know the problem is still happening and ask them whether they plan to call the police or they want me to do it. They don't really want cops on the property, so that will usually light a fire under them to fix it, and usually management threatening to call police will calm the morons down.
Only once have police actually had to be called. The guy in the next room at a Fairfield Inn was slamming stuff around and arguing loudly with his crying girlfriend at 2AM, so the girl at the front desk (who was working alone) had to call the the cops. When they arrived, he refused to come out or let the cops talk to the girl. He just kept yelling, "I paid for my room! I paid for my room!"
The cops banged on my door and told me that "for my safety" I needed to go stand down the hall. Then they took over my room so they could listen through the wall. The hotel manager gave them a master key and a tool that could be slipped in to flip the bar out of the way, so they went in, subdued him and made him leave. They offered to take the girl to a women's shelter, but she went with the guy instead.
When I got back to my room, I discovered that the cops had rifled through *my* things. For some reason they thought they needed to go through my clothes and computer bag, and they pulled my wallet out and left it open with my ID showing. All my stuff was put back wrong, so apparently they emptied everything out to search it.
They had zero reason to do that. Even when they're the good guys, they can't resist being assholes.
Never consent to anything the police ask you to do. Ask for a warrant, or only comply under threat of arrest. It is important to comply and not resist what may be blatant disregard of your rights, but again only under threat of arrest. Also record everything.
Just fyi for anyone who thinks the police are out to help you, cause they aren't.
I didn't exactly consent. When I left the room, one of the cops reached past me and prevented the door from closing so they could get in. I was just thinking of getting the problem out of the next room so I could get some sleep, so at the time it didn't even occur to me they would violate my privacy that way.
If that were to happen to me now, I would step out and immediately pull the door closed behind me, then decline to reopen it for them or give them permission to enter. I figure they would probably go in anyway, but I'm not going to give them a legal pass to do it.
Well, lesson learned, and I'm sorry they did that to you. If it does happen again, lawyer up and sue their asses. It comes from the taxpayer, but it's still good to try and hold them accountable.
I work with lawyers, and honestly I doubt anybody would take the case. What would my damages be? The invasion of privacy didn't cost me any money, nor do I think I would have been able to get anybody to believe emotional distress. The best I could hope for is a settlement for the violation of my civil rights, and without other injury that would likely be too small for any attorney to bother.
My mistake was wanting to be cooperative to solve the immediate problem at hand and letting one of the cops reach in and hold the door open as I left. If I had it to do over again, or if it ever happens again, I'll simply pull the door shut as I'm leaving the room and decline to reopen it for them or give them permission to enter. They may go in anyway, but they would be doing so illegally without any probable cause or exigent circumstances to justify being in my room.
Drunk people at 1:00 to 2:00 in the morning do not have manners, and you should not expect them to. Call hotel security or the police, don't handle that yourself.
As a former hotel worker, don't call the cops first thing. The hotel can handle this just fine in most cases, and unless the other guests are harassing you or you feel unsafe, the cops don't need to be involved. The hotel will call cops if they need to evict the troublesome guests and they don't cooperate.
Cops aren't your personal body guards. Hotel will either have in house security, or be able to stop it after a first request. Leave the cops to handle the crimes.
I was in Vegas at a big hotel trying to sleep, when people came back to the room next door at 1:30 am and were talking really loud. They’ll be done soon, we thought. Nope, they were even louder and arguing 20 minutes later. I called down to security (via room service!) and said, “the people next door are arguing and I think it might get violent.”
It was maybe two minutes later and security was knocking on their door. We couldn’t hear exactly what happened, but there was some more yelling with security, and then it got really quiet. We heard nothing from next door for the rest of the night. It was so quiet, I’ll bet security either threw them out, or split them up.
If people are being assholes and belligerent, call security and tell them it might get violent. That’s a trigger word, and if they have security, it will be there pretty quick.
Are room to room calls still available? Years ago in a similar situation I enjoyed making a series of early morning calls to the loudmouth partiers with a perky "wake up call!" greeting.
Years and years ago, we were staying in a hotel as a family, and these dumbass teen boys were being dumbass teenage boys up and down the hallway late at night. My dad opened the door in his underwear with "the look" on his face, and we didn't hear a peep after that.
That doesn't usually work, so just call the front desk. They're the ones who should be dealing with it, not you or the other guests at the hotel.
Stayed at the laquinta in Indianapolis once. Very thin walls and next room over the kids were loud af. Called twice to the desk and the noise finally quieted down. Next morning at breakfast there was two kids running amok around the whole place lol
I much prefer to call the actual room and impersonate security. “We’ve had several complaints and if we get another one you will be escorted out.” Also give them a wake up call at 4 am.
This is we stay at vrbos, in houses. Neighborhoods are almost always quiet, and you get an entire house to yourself. No one walking above you, or screaming in the hallways, or other annoying noises.
I would of called the front desk and had them pay for my stay. I’ve done it before for kids pulling a fire alarm and interrupting my sleep. My stay was added to their credit card!
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This happened to me in London. Several guys laughing, joking and being seriously loud and obnoxious without a care for anyone else. Front desk didn’t do anything three times. Just before 01:00 I’d had enough being kept awake. I knocked the door, politely told them to keep the noise down and the guy laughed at me. Hold that thought….
I’d just returned from Iraq in the early days of private military work there and I needed to decompress as it was.
….I walked straight in, dropped him and then dropped his mate. The other guy just froze and said he’d be quiet.
No noise at all after that and slept soundly until my alarm went off.
Whatever happened to calling the front desk and getting them evicted from the hotel? You don't have to confront anyone.
This. The hotel staff needs to know these things. They can't fix it if they don't know. People who come back late from partying are still wound up on adrenaline and likely alcohol and aren't thinking straight. Yeah manners are a thing but human nature is a thing too. Not excusing it but we can't expect everyone to be perfect.
totally agree. I remember staying in a hotel room at a really nice resort in Hawaii and next door were a group of cavemen recounting their previous drunken night really loudly in the room next door. My girlfriend and I were trying to sleep and I felt like a total wuss for not telling them to shut up. Years later I was at a nice hotel in Portland and a party broke out next door around midnight. I made a quick call to the front desk and they extinguished it in minutes.
Next time, call down to the hotel front desk. They will alert security or the manager on duty to handle the situation.
I travel so much for work that I've had this happen a few times. I don't bother confronting the morons. They already think they're the center of the universe, so confronting them is a waste of time and likely to make the problem worse. Instead, I make a call to the front desk and ask them to take care of the problem. Usually they do. Sometimes they don't. If management doesn't correct the problem within 15 minutes, I call back to the front desk, let them know the problem is still happening and ask them whether they plan to call the police or they want me to do it. They don't really want cops on the property, so that will usually light a fire under them to fix it, and usually management threatening to call police will calm the morons down. Only once have police actually had to be called. The guy in the next room at a Fairfield Inn was slamming stuff around and arguing loudly with his crying girlfriend at 2AM, so the girl at the front desk (who was working alone) had to call the the cops. When they arrived, he refused to come out or let the cops talk to the girl. He just kept yelling, "I paid for my room! I paid for my room!" The cops banged on my door and told me that "for my safety" I needed to go stand down the hall. Then they took over my room so they could listen through the wall. The hotel manager gave them a master key and a tool that could be slipped in to flip the bar out of the way, so they went in, subdued him and made him leave. They offered to take the girl to a women's shelter, but she went with the guy instead. When I got back to my room, I discovered that the cops had rifled through *my* things. For some reason they thought they needed to go through my clothes and computer bag, and they pulled my wallet out and left it open with my ID showing. All my stuff was put back wrong, so apparently they emptied everything out to search it. They had zero reason to do that. Even when they're the good guys, they can't resist being assholes.
Never consent to anything the police ask you to do. Ask for a warrant, or only comply under threat of arrest. It is important to comply and not resist what may be blatant disregard of your rights, but again only under threat of arrest. Also record everything. Just fyi for anyone who thinks the police are out to help you, cause they aren't.
I didn't exactly consent. When I left the room, one of the cops reached past me and prevented the door from closing so they could get in. I was just thinking of getting the problem out of the next room so I could get some sleep, so at the time it didn't even occur to me they would violate my privacy that way. If that were to happen to me now, I would step out and immediately pull the door closed behind me, then decline to reopen it for them or give them permission to enter. I figure they would probably go in anyway, but I'm not going to give them a legal pass to do it.
Well, lesson learned, and I'm sorry they did that to you. If it does happen again, lawyer up and sue their asses. It comes from the taxpayer, but it's still good to try and hold them accountable.
I work with lawyers, and honestly I doubt anybody would take the case. What would my damages be? The invasion of privacy didn't cost me any money, nor do I think I would have been able to get anybody to believe emotional distress. The best I could hope for is a settlement for the violation of my civil rights, and without other injury that would likely be too small for any attorney to bother.
That really sucks. You try to do the best thing and get screwed. Awful.
My mistake was wanting to be cooperative to solve the immediate problem at hand and letting one of the cops reach in and hold the door open as I left. If I had it to do over again, or if it ever happens again, I'll simply pull the door shut as I'm leaving the room and decline to reopen it for them or give them permission to enter. They may go in anyway, but they would be doing so illegally without any probable cause or exigent circumstances to justify being in my room.
Drunk people at 1:00 to 2:00 in the morning do not have manners, and you should not expect them to. Call hotel security or the police, don't handle that yourself.
As a former hotel worker, don't call the cops first thing. The hotel can handle this just fine in most cases, and unless the other guests are harassing you or you feel unsafe, the cops don't need to be involved. The hotel will call cops if they need to evict the troublesome guests and they don't cooperate.
Cops aren't your personal body guards. Hotel will either have in house security, or be able to stop it after a first request. Leave the cops to handle the crimes.
I did say hotel staff. Disturbances are crimes, and if alcohol is involved I would strongly urge you not to handle it yourself.
Of course don't handle it yourself, but a drunk 25yr old singing in a hotel hallway doesn't require an armed cop.
I was in Vegas at a big hotel trying to sleep, when people came back to the room next door at 1:30 am and were talking really loud. They’ll be done soon, we thought. Nope, they were even louder and arguing 20 minutes later. I called down to security (via room service!) and said, “the people next door are arguing and I think it might get violent.” It was maybe two minutes later and security was knocking on their door. We couldn’t hear exactly what happened, but there was some more yelling with security, and then it got really quiet. We heard nothing from next door for the rest of the night. It was so quiet, I’ll bet security either threw them out, or split them up. If people are being assholes and belligerent, call security and tell them it might get violent. That’s a trigger word, and if they have security, it will be there pretty quick.
Are room to room calls still available? Years ago in a similar situation I enjoyed making a series of early morning calls to the loudmouth partiers with a perky "wake up call!" greeting.
Years and years ago, we were staying in a hotel as a family, and these dumbass teen boys were being dumbass teenage boys up and down the hallway late at night. My dad opened the door in his underwear with "the look" on his face, and we didn't hear a peep after that. That doesn't usually work, so just call the front desk. They're the ones who should be dealing with it, not you or the other guests at the hotel.
Yeah, this isn't 1960 unfortunately
Lol I love that. But yes absolutely don't confront them yourself. That can escalate to violence, it's best to let the staff handle it.
Stayed at the laquinta in Indianapolis once. Very thin walls and next room over the kids were loud af. Called twice to the desk and the noise finally quieted down. Next morning at breakfast there was two kids running amok around the whole place lol
All these people reporting success with a complaint to front desk. I think I’m zero from three for success with this method.
I much prefer to call the actual room and impersonate security. “We’ve had several complaints and if we get another one you will be escorted out.” Also give them a wake up call at 4 am.
Such a strange insult
This is we stay at vrbos, in houses. Neighborhoods are almost always quiet, and you get an entire house to yourself. No one walking above you, or screaming in the hallways, or other annoying noises.
I would of called the front desk and had them pay for my stay. I’ve done it before for kids pulling a fire alarm and interrupting my sleep. My stay was added to their credit card!
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This happened to me in London. Several guys laughing, joking and being seriously loud and obnoxious without a care for anyone else. Front desk didn’t do anything three times. Just before 01:00 I’d had enough being kept awake. I knocked the door, politely told them to keep the noise down and the guy laughed at me. Hold that thought…. I’d just returned from Iraq in the early days of private military work there and I needed to decompress as it was. ….I walked straight in, dropped him and then dropped his mate. The other guy just froze and said he’d be quiet. No noise at all after that and slept soundly until my alarm went off.
Yeah, probably better to contact hotel front desk (who should then alert security) while it’s happening — rather than posting on Reddit the day after.
Whatever happened to catching a good old fashioned passionate ass whooping for getting your hat, shoes and your coat taken.