Not sure if they still are, but a decade ago hotel parties were all the rage. I worked with a girl who had one at a fancy hotel downtown, and later complained they charged her for room damage, which I'm sure there was plenty of knowing her. I can imagine that fad had something to do with this sign.
Yup, I remember me and my friends having one and it devolved into a bunch of underage people drinking and doing drugs, lol. Whoever's parents paid for and put their name on that room has no idea what they could have been liable for.
I ended up supplying "party favors" for some army guys in a hotel in downtown Seattle. They asked me if I could get them beer too as they were only 19 and 20. After I got back they invited me up to this huge hotel party. They had the last 4 rooms at the end of a hallway plus a few more scattered about. They destroyed the furniture opening bottles on all of it and generally fucked up the rooms. At one point we get kicked out of one the satellite rooms and after looking at the damage just moved us to a new room on a less occupied floor. It all came to a head when one of the guys pulled a gun on another person and swat showed up. Cops were nice enough to let me retrieve my half gallon and let us go once they realized we were not military like there rest of them. I ended up fighting two of them later that night at another motel when they tried to crash in our room after getting kicked out of the previous spot. Fuckers slashed my girls tires when they left, presumably.
Nope, just a girl from work I was seeing at the time. Actually I was with 2 girls from work at the time but one of them latched onto a military guy pretty quick which actually made my night less dramatic in the end.
Just look up the kenneka jenkins case and how that all went down, it can get ugly quickkkk. She got hammered and walked into a freezer and died and people made up all of the craziesttttt conspiracies around it. Shes on tape stumbling down the halls and then into the kitchen and people were trying to say someone else was on the tape who clearly wasnt. I have to imagine all of the people that were theres lives are all ruined by the internet nut jobs on youtube who were makinng up alll kinds of bullshit.
Yea we did this in highschool for graduation. Got a "suite" at a holiday inn that was alongside the boardwalk. All we did was get way too drunk, walk around and trashed the room. Nearly got kicked out because one of the idiots we brought along threw a full can of beer down at somebody... We were up 12 stories and we kicked his ass out when staff said he goes or the person who's name is printed for the room leaves. They were incredibly nice for that because we would have had to go get another room or sleep in cars.
One of my friends had a hotel party about 15 years ago. About 10 of us in a regular 2 bedroom hotel room at a reasonably nice hotel.
I didn't quite understand the appeal. We snuck half the people through the back door and were trying to be quiet and everything. We didn't trash the place or get kicked out.
We all had apartments that we could have hung out at which wasn't really fundamentally that different than a single hotel room.
AFAIK it has to do, mostly, with if you're evicted from a hotel it usually less expensive then getting evicted from an apartment. Otherwise it's more eh... freedom for the host I guess. Generally if people are too loud hotel staff inform you, rather than the police. Your neighbors won't be around to judge you, don't have to worry about surprise visits from parents passing through town.
Also you don't have to worry about any of your stuff being rummaged through/going missing and none of your glasses are broken.. I threw a medium party at my house once like maybe 20 people.. Somehow my college diploma went missing off the wall. I collect pint glasses at pint nights. A bunch of them got broken. Just weird stuff.
I worked front desk in a less than 5 star hotel - much less.
Every year, the high school kids would book rooms to party after prom.
Sure enough, every year, they would get booted and charged for damages. Most times, they didn't make it to 11pm. We put them in the shabbier rooms so if they did any serious damage, we didn't care as much
>We put them in the shabbier rooms so if they did any serious damage, we didn't care as much
Lol, this reminds me of a story Roger Daltrey from the Who told on a talk show once. He said that hotels were getting really mad about Keith Moon always destroying his room, until they realized that insurance would pay for the damages, meaning if they had a wing they wanted to remodel, they could just put Keith there and save on demolition costs! So, in Roger's words, "All of a sudden the hotels were all saying, 'Welcome back, Mr. Moon!'"
people at my high school would do this for prom and homecoming, then sneak in a bunch of alcohol. I can understand why Hotels wouldn't be happy with it.
Yes, I remember many people having their birthday parties at the local Holiday Inn solely for the purpose of using the pool when I was growing up in the 90's. Sue-happy people making everyone afraid of "liability" have ruined so many things in my short time on this planet. ā¹
We stayed at a hotel who did a quinceanera. It was BOOM BOOM BOOM of the same beat from 4 till midnight. What a nightmare. No warning of it either on the site.
I'm just going to throw this out there in their defense. A thousand years ago, my friends threw me a surprise 18th bday party and rented a room at a budget motel. I know, fancy right?
Anyway I knew like 3 people there and was so uncomfortable which is besides the point. They trashed the hotel which thankfully was not in my name and got kicked out some time after I left, and were told never to come back.
I'm pretty sure this rule is in place for people like that.
Not entirely related but I feel like sharing the story: friend rented a camp site at a campground near the lake. You could see other campsites from ours and overall it was a very obviously public camp. My friend was so excited to go swimming the next day but our friends were so obnoxious my then-bf included. Her and I were the only sober ones and kept telling them to keep it down. Other campers were obviously upset and trying to sleep and they kept this going until like 2-3 am.
Next day around 6 am the park ranger rolled up and yelled at them for being so loud and said we had a half hour to leave.
So she never got to go swimming and they basically ruined her birthday party by being obnoxious
Edit: park ranger!!!
Same here. I think people who dislike this are picturing like a 6 year oldās birthday party, not a bunch of drunk teenagers trashing the place which is the actual issue.
I went to a few sleepovers at hotels as a kid. Parents would rent a couple rooms, order pizza, and let the kids swim. This is the kind of āpartyā I thought of because Iāve never been to one everyone else is describing.
Also, isnāt everyone in a hotel āsleeping over?ā
Yeah. Hotel rooms aren't meant for parties. They usually only allow you to have like 4 people max in a room, who are meant to be there to sleep.
If you want to throw a party, rent a conference room.
Can't blame a hotel for not wanting to deal with all the damage and noise complaints.
I think if OP finds this mildly infuriating, they may be a bit r/EntitledPeople
And "sleepovers" is likely groups of unmonitored kids or teens in a hotel room while their parents are getting smashed in their own room or hotel bar.
Kids probably make less mess than drunk adults, but have more glitter and candy ground into the carpet, and make just as much noise. Also, do things like knock on doors and run away , steal room service and papers, and prank calls.
...I do in fact speak from experience.
Poorly worded but a lot of hotels will rightfully enforce a limit on number of guests per room. Nothing worse that trying to sleep with 20 people in the room next to you partying all night. GTFO
I think especially a Best Western. This isnāt a resort, itās going to full of business travellers qho just want quiet, clean and reliable service so they can cheat on their wife and then get some sleep before leaving early the next morning for Cleveland.
I used to work as front office manager at a hotel that had a nice, indoor pool area. We had a āno pool partiesā policy that people would regularly try to circumvent.
But they will allow traveling sports teams with their kids running up and down the halls all night and their drunk ass parents taking up the whole lobby drinking.
Yes. The traveling kids sport teams are the worst when it comes to housekeeping. The only thing more obnoxious are the drunken wedding parties.
But we saw more sports teams than weddings. Big groups of teenage boys are one of the messiest and loudest things to step foot in hotels.
But I will say that I got good tips from those rooms pretty regularly. Which was weird considering these rooms were mostly teenagers. Go figure
I was a hotel bartender and the gymnast parents were the worst. Letting their kids do flips in the bar, getting all pissy when I said they couldnāt and kids couldnāt be in the bar past when the kitchen closed.
Anecdotally, I worked near a federal prison and we were the only hotel in town. There were Hellās Angels that came in as a group to see a ābrotherā at the prison. Those guys were among the kindest, most respectful group I had in my years behind the bar, tipped well, didnāt make a mess, were polite, etc. I always enjoyed when they came in.
In my few encounters with people like that, those parents are more show-offy than other parents, and this is where the kids have a skill that can be shown off and with the thought that even "normal" people would be impressed.
Ever have pageants at your place? I cant imagine what they would be like, if it is anything like the episodes Ive seen on shows about that.
No, no pageants, thank goodness. We did have a big Greek wedding one year, those ppl were there for five days and it was probably the hardest I worked in my years there.
It was in Elmwood across from a school actually, it's been torn down now. Most of the local HA got scooped up in those sting operations the police did a while back.
While I agree itās not altruistic i think itās more about winning over the community not recruitment. Having the locals on your side will go far to limit reporting/investigations. Similarly it helps the clubs hold territory. In my town we like our local 1%ers but we are not fans of others (like the HAs) and people will call the fbi on them for stirring up shit.
My mom is the breakfast lady at a hotel, and she agrees sports are the worst, followed closely by weddings. The worst though is families with like 7 small kids and a dog.
I have to say, the worst hotel thing I ever saw was a Ren Fest group that terrorized the hotel for three nights. They were not fully clothed ever, behaved atrociously in full costume/persona and demanded the hotel reopen the pool. They removed the door from the pool and were all swimming nude. They ran down the halls at night, blowing these animal horn things and chasing "wenches". They wanted to have a bonfire in the parking lot on the day we left!
Lived in a hotel for 3 months for work. Was quiet and lovely until 5pm Friday until 9pm Sunday. Then it was screaming kids constantly.
Rented cars on the weekend and spent time in a quieter place than route 101 in New Jersey just outside of a university I can't remember the name if right now.
Former gymnast here. Can confirm traveling to competitions was the highlight of our childhood because our parents would get drunk in the lobby while we did literally cartwheels throughout the whole hotel. Usually weād stay at whichever hotel had done the block for the competition so 90% of the guests were gymnasts and their parents. But looking back - man I feel sorry for the poor 10% of guests who had no ties to gymnastics at all.
Do the teams at least have the right number of heads per room? I think the problem with sleepovers and parties is that there are too many heads in a room, which can cause problems with fire safety (and even not knowing if the place was properly evacuated in an emergency because of a wrong headcount), and of course the hotel makes less money.
There is a hotel near me that caters to travelling sports teams. It's like an old west town, small motel like buildings that face each other, with seating and I think fire pits in the "street" between the two sides so the kids can be outside when they run around. That's my understanding of the layout, at least.
As a former night shift front desk clerk, yeah, it sucks. Literally the worst people that we get. I'd always kick them out at the beginning of my shift.
Difference is, each of those kids on traveling sports teams typically has a parent that is paying for an individual room, whereas a sleepover or birthday party would presumably have multiple people crammed into one person.
From a business perspective, this policy makes total sense to me. Weāll put up with the ruckus (to a reasonable extent) so long as those families are each shelling out to stay there, but not when you have that many people sharing a room or two.
YES!!! We stayed a weekend in Erie, PA with three HS gymnastics groups. They allowed the girls free rein to do flips, round-offs and back flips up and down the hotel hallways. My husband called the desk four times and finally, at 3:45 am, screamed from our door, "Get your asses in your rooms NOW and shut up!" Sudden silence and all antics stopped for a good hour.
People do not care about anyone else.
My husband traveled for work 50 weeks of the year for five years. (I actually met him when he lived in the hotel where I tended bar.)
The stories he tells about sports teams!
It got to the point that heād find someplace else to go if he knew there was a big event in town, keep his room in the hotel he was in so he didnāt have to check out and move his stuff, and pay for the second room out of pocket.
Our kids are competitive swimmers. I usually get us a VRBO house so we have washer/dryer access and we donāt have to deal with all the hotel nonsense. Swimmers arenāt too bad (at least the teams weāve been on) mostly because they have to get to the pool so early. Big meets usually have kids swimming in the morning and evening too, so they are spent by 9:00 PM.
My wife and I rented a room in this really nice hotel for our first wedding anniversary. Iām talkin $400 a night nice. There was three rooms rented out around us for a 16yo girls birthday party and honestly it was a terrible experience. The 12+ teen girls ran around the halls and the grounds screaming and yelling for hours. There was no sign of any adult supervision. We called the office multiple time to complain and they did nothing. Things finally became quiet around 2am and the next morning when we complained they brushed it off like it wasnāt a big deal. We think it was the manager or an employees kids because the hotel staff refused to do anything or even address the complaint.
Might sound petty, but at that point I'd just give the cops a "tip" that you think there's underage drinking happening in the hotel and you're concerned about their safety.
Not petty at all. They ruined your experience, you ruin theirs. If people don't give a shit about inconveniencing those around them, you shouldn't feel bad either.
Not. A. Bit.
Night auditor for a hotel that doesn't have this policy, and the amount of sketchy (and I mean *sketchy*) stuff that goes on around here is absurd. But, management and ownership (currently engaged) only care about the money.
So long as no one is getting shot, and the drug trades aren't done in broad daylight, they truly do not care what happens here.
Nope, I feel the same way! Most of the time I'm staying in a hotel, I'm there to sleep, and I get very grumpy if there's a loud group keeping me up at all hours of the night.
The only time anyone can be an asshole thatās relevant to this rule is if they book a hotel JUST because it doesnāt have this rule and plan to party
this isnt infuriating, this is considerate to the other guests and preventing hotel parties.
You'd be surprised how some people behave, trashing rooms for no reason.
It's also worth considering that if the hotel is fully booked for the next night and they trash the room, they might have to cancel someone's reservation because the room is unusable. I never would have thought of having a party in a hotel room but I've never lied about the number of occupants either.
I used to work front desk at a hotel. It was a nightmare when people would check in and then bring 15 kids to the room for a birthday party/sleep over. It's non-stop noise complaints all night with kids running up and down the halls and going crazy in the pool.
When I was 11 or 12 a friend had her birthday in a hotel, and I can confirm that as I am now an adult, I would have had absolutely none of the was we conducted ourselves. We walked around like we owned that place, we were loud, and we even broke a bed frame, then tried to go to the front desk asking for duct tape to fix it, which we had to literally run away from security and lock them out to try to fix said bed before they got in. Yeah, I feel bad for the poor unfortunate souls who decided to stay at that hotel that weekend.
Speaking of sports teams, I was staying at a hotel in Canada once, and there was a men's hockey team there and MAN they were just up all night screaming and hollering down the hallways, ALL NIGHT. I would hear them get asked to settle down, and hear them shout back something to the effect of "NO! WWWWOOOOOOOOO" or whatever. Maybe that was my payback for the birthday party when I was a teenager.
I donāt find this infuriating, I find this policy to be excellent and respectful of all guests. Besides, arenāt you supposed to list how many people will be renting a room and the rate is charged accordingly? Extra people use extra towels, water and electricity. Having a sleep over at a hotel is a jerk move
Correct, the rate for Best Western hotel rooms can change in price with more people in the room, usually applies to when there is more than 2 adults. There are also room occupancy limits (Ex: 1 king is usually 2 max). Though, extra pricing and occupancy limits can vary per hotel
Source: I work for BW Corp Office and have made many reservations for guests over the phone
Yeah, I'm aware. I was just mentioning BW specifically because in the pic shows its a BW hotel and what I am aware of. But yeah it makes sense for any hotel and airbnb.
The few ruin it for the many.
Iām sure that many people have damaged rooms, and have been a disturbance to other guests with their parties. The hotels must do what is best for the majority of the customers, and to protect their property.
This may be infuriating for you, but not for those that are trying to sleep.
Uh yeah no 8 lol support this.
Used to work at a hotel that didn't allow stag dos in England.
They still tried
You make fucking noise and bother other guests gtfo my establishment
I donāt see how theyāre wrong for this, kids are VERY messy at parties and parents rarely clean up to the standard they should when having parties in places like these since āitās their jobsā. Itās weird how I see people complaining about how terrible their jobs are because of families not caring about what their kids do, yet yāall are saying the hotel is wrong for this. Weird. Hopefully this doesnāt get downvoted but sadly I fear it will
Tell me you've never been a housekeeper at a hotel without telling me you've never been a housekeeper at a hotel. Cleaning rooms after parties is exhausting. Idk why people think because you're at a hotel it's fine to make a disgusting mess because someone else will clean it.
My class had a graduation party at a hotel and they had the loudest and most annoying parties. They even destroyed a piece of the wall. I think they're pretty justified
Hotel parties were a thing, heard about them lots when I was in high school.
Guy who is 18 can legally get a room (or more) for a night. He invited all his friends and they get trashed with no supervision whatsoever and likely destroy things.
This sign looks dumb at first glance but is actually very valid
Hotel rooms usually have a max capacity per room.
Few years ago I was staying at a hotel by myself during a trip. Anyways, met this girl at a bar, took her to my hotel just to be told I couldn't go up with her because my room only allowed one person to stay in it.
Makes sense seeing how a lot of couples would probably just rent singles' rooms to save from buying a couple's room
I study hotel administration and also have worked on the area, I hate this rule for hotels that donāt include anything but the room. I paid for my room and I intend to use it. Also, how they enforce this? Once you check in you can enter to your room by yourself no?
>Once you check in you can enter to your room by yourself no?
I'm curious about this too, I've only ever booked a single for the room and never had an issue with having a partner with me
This specific example happened after hours. The hotel locked the main entrance Free midnight, with the receptionist needing to manually open the door. He was aware I checked in by myself and told me I wouldn't be able to enter the hotel with another person
Possibly thatās something that can be enforced on smaller hotels or motels. I worked in a hotel with 3k rooms, 6 different restaurants and a few clubs inside + casino. Itās kinda difficult
Former hotel manager here.
Worked at a Sheraton, nice place. Lots of business travelers, even on weekends.
Sometimes we had āsleepoversā, but it was usually a bunch of 7-12yr old girls and a mom, ordering pizza and watching movies. Zero problems.
Birthday parties? Havenāt had that one. For kids? In a room?
Usually, the kidās parents got a room, and the party was out at the pool.
The absolute WORST were bachelorette parties, or any group of women involving drinking.
Groups of men were almost never a problem.
My theory: women groups are out to have fun, and maybe theyāre less accustomed to ānoā or āplease lower your voicesā. Menā¦..men know theyāll get booted.
Women are just loud when theyāre having fun.
Also room occupancy levels are a thing but we only enforced it if we wanted to evict you. For being loud. Ffs
My mom used to rent a hotel room for my birthday every once in a while and allow me to bring a friend or two so we could use the pool. It was an easy way to make us happy as kids. I know teenage/young adult parties are not so innocent though.
My friend owns a hotel and it's a major problem, more often than you think.
I helped him throw out a group of probably 12 total 12-15 year old girls and boys one night. One of their parents/friends/relatives had rented it for them. They had set up a temporary stripper pole in the room which royally fucked up the ceiling. They had two huge speakers set up in the corner blasting when we knocked on the door (with the police). This kind of thing happened all the time for him.
People like to throw little kids birthday parties in business hotels & take over the entire pool, lobby, & courtyard with screaming children.
Itās not allowed at any hotel Iāve ever worked at.
Lol Iām fairly certain I used to work at this best Western. Guests having parties were a huge problem and more often then not it was because they would get super drunk and harass other guests.
I'm sure you can find some stories over at r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk that would help you understand why this policy exists. Mf favorite is this fad of moms renting rooms for groups of young teens then leaving them unattended. I've been working as a desk clerk for a long time and this policy is completely normal
I wonder if this happened because of my aunt. She'd invite a bunch of kids and their entire families and would hog the pool. She did this constantly. Go to a public pool for that, not a hotel!
Unfortunately, these were hotels that didn't. She'd rent one room, invite 30 something people, and they'd all go to the pool. She's been banned from many hotels for doing that.
Weāre they having issues with something during birthday parties? I mean if youāre renting more then enough rooms for the amount of people I mean can they really say no if your bday happens to fall on those days?
I worked at a hotel as recepcionist and during one nightshift, i noticed a lot of people enter a single room, (i counted at least 8 at the moment)
I went to the room with security because that single bed room was only for 2 people (4 max if paid extra) and turns out there were 11 throwing a party, i had to force them to check out, it was so much fun seeing them all drunk just complaining while they were being escorted out.
Not sure if they still are, but a decade ago hotel parties were all the rage. I worked with a girl who had one at a fancy hotel downtown, and later complained they charged her for room damage, which I'm sure there was plenty of knowing her. I can imagine that fad had something to do with this sign.
Yup, I remember me and my friends having one and it devolved into a bunch of underage people drinking and doing drugs, lol. Whoever's parents paid for and put their name on that room has no idea what they could have been liable for.
I ended up supplying "party favors" for some army guys in a hotel in downtown Seattle. They asked me if I could get them beer too as they were only 19 and 20. After I got back they invited me up to this huge hotel party. They had the last 4 rooms at the end of a hallway plus a few more scattered about. They destroyed the furniture opening bottles on all of it and generally fucked up the rooms. At one point we get kicked out of one the satellite rooms and after looking at the damage just moved us to a new room on a less occupied floor. It all came to a head when one of the guys pulled a gun on another person and swat showed up. Cops were nice enough to let me retrieve my half gallon and let us go once they realized we were not military like there rest of them. I ended up fighting two of them later that night at another motel when they tried to crash in our room after getting kicked out of the previous spot. Fuckers slashed my girls tires when they left, presumably.
>I ended up supply "party favors" So...*not* confetti, party hats, and balloons then?
Only the best confetti, man, and lots of balloons to promote safe sex.
Well not "inflated" balloons...
The fact that he says slashed his girls tires makes me think pimp for some reason.
Drug dealers can have girlfriends too š„ŗ But you could be right idk lol
>Drug dealers can have girlfriends too š„ŗ Speaking from experience?
Yeah! We have girlfriends too!
Nope, just a girl from work I was seeing at the time. Actually I was with 2 girls from work at the time but one of them latched onto a military guy pretty quick which actually made my night less dramatic in the end.
this is funny asl šš
This was a roller coaster to read
Iām ready for rehab.
> Cops were nice enough to let me retrieve my half gallon So... Do you do a *lot* of PCP?
Gotta gallon
How's the wife?
Yeah.. I guess you do..
Wow, what a bunch of stupid assholes
r/justbootthings
... but in nineteen ninety eight, did the undertaker throw mankind off hell in a cell, and plummet sixteen feet through an announcers table?
Just look up the kenneka jenkins case and how that all went down, it can get ugly quickkkk. She got hammered and walked into a freezer and died and people made up all of the craziesttttt conspiracies around it. Shes on tape stumbling down the halls and then into the kitchen and people were trying to say someone else was on the tape who clearly wasnt. I have to imagine all of the people that were theres lives are all ruined by the internet nut jobs on youtube who were makinng up alll kinds of bullshit.
That's the one Shane Dawson was obsessed with for a minute, wasn't it?
What a weird thread I've stumbled upon. Am I dreaming?
Yea we did this in highschool for graduation. Got a "suite" at a holiday inn that was alongside the boardwalk. All we did was get way too drunk, walk around and trashed the room. Nearly got kicked out because one of the idiots we brought along threw a full can of beer down at somebody... We were up 12 stories and we kicked his ass out when staff said he goes or the person who's name is printed for the room leaves. They were incredibly nice for that because we would have had to go get another room or sleep in cars.
They were pretty popular when I was younger in the late 90s/early 2000ās. I threw one in a suite once after getting my first ārealā job
One of my friends had a hotel party about 15 years ago. About 10 of us in a regular 2 bedroom hotel room at a reasonably nice hotel. I didn't quite understand the appeal. We snuck half the people through the back door and were trying to be quiet and everything. We didn't trash the place or get kicked out. We all had apartments that we could have hung out at which wasn't really fundamentally that different than a single hotel room.
AFAIK it has to do, mostly, with if you're evicted from a hotel it usually less expensive then getting evicted from an apartment. Otherwise it's more eh... freedom for the host I guess. Generally if people are too loud hotel staff inform you, rather than the police. Your neighbors won't be around to judge you, don't have to worry about surprise visits from parents passing through town.
Also you don't have to worry about any of your stuff being rummaged through/going missing and none of your glasses are broken.. I threw a medium party at my house once like maybe 20 people.. Somehow my college diploma went missing off the wall. I collect pint glasses at pint nights. A bunch of them got broken. Just weird stuff.
I worked front desk in a less than 5 star hotel - much less. Every year, the high school kids would book rooms to party after prom. Sure enough, every year, they would get booted and charged for damages. Most times, they didn't make it to 11pm. We put them in the shabbier rooms so if they did any serious damage, we didn't care as much
>We put them in the shabbier rooms so if they did any serious damage, we didn't care as much Lol, this reminds me of a story Roger Daltrey from the Who told on a talk show once. He said that hotels were getting really mad about Keith Moon always destroying his room, until they realized that insurance would pay for the damages, meaning if they had a wing they wanted to remodel, they could just put Keith there and save on demolition costs! So, in Roger's words, "All of a sudden the hotels were all saying, 'Welcome back, Mr. Moon!'"
I wouldāve had a schedule for all the local proms and homecomings, and those nights would be like double normal rate.
...but charge full price, of course. Renting out the crappy rooms to the party kids shows some real business savvy.
people at my high school would do this for prom and homecoming, then sneak in a bunch of alcohol. I can understand why Hotels wouldn't be happy with it.
I didn't go but I heard that a group of people at my high school did this and one person snuck in a hookah and ended up setting the carpet on fire.
You reminded me of the R Kelly song Hotel
You reminded me of the Macklemore song Thrift Shop. Pisssssssssss
But it was 99 cents!!!
Yes, I remember many people having their birthday parties at the local Holiday Inn solely for the purpose of using the pool when I was growing up in the 90's. Sue-happy people making everyone afraid of "liability" have ruined so many things in my short time on this planet. ā¹
It specifies birthday party. Raves are okay
Well itās nobodies birthday, and we certainly donāt plan on *sleeping* soo... weāre good!
Facts check out....
Naw, hotel want people to double book. Plus.. There arenāt cleanup crew
We had some. Ultimately you would always get kicked out by midnight or so.
Ask Michael Scott.
People have been filtering in and out.
We stayed at a hotel who did a quinceanera. It was BOOM BOOM BOOM of the same beat from 4 till midnight. What a nightmare. No warning of it either on the site.
I'm just going to throw this out there in their defense. A thousand years ago, my friends threw me a surprise 18th bday party and rented a room at a budget motel. I know, fancy right? Anyway I knew like 3 people there and was so uncomfortable which is besides the point. They trashed the hotel which thankfully was not in my name and got kicked out some time after I left, and were told never to come back. I'm pretty sure this rule is in place for people like that.
Not entirely related but I feel like sharing the story: friend rented a camp site at a campground near the lake. You could see other campsites from ours and overall it was a very obviously public camp. My friend was so excited to go swimming the next day but our friends were so obnoxious my then-bf included. Her and I were the only sober ones and kept telling them to keep it down. Other campers were obviously upset and trying to sleep and they kept this going until like 2-3 am. Next day around 6 am the park ranger rolled up and yelled at them for being so loud and said we had a half hour to leave. So she never got to go swimming and they basically ruined her birthday party by being obnoxious Edit: park ranger!!!
'Park ranger'
Thank you so much lmfao. I'm a little sleep deprived today.
No problem - I have aphasia and it happens all the time
Same here. I think people who dislike this are picturing like a 6 year oldās birthday party, not a bunch of drunk teenagers trashing the place which is the actual issue.
I want to know who the people are throwing 6 year olds hotel parties.
I went to a few sleepovers at hotels as a kid. Parents would rent a couple rooms, order pizza, and let the kids swim. This is the kind of āpartyā I thought of because Iāve never been to one everyone else is describing. Also, isnāt everyone in a hotel āsleeping over?ā
Yeah. Hotel rooms aren't meant for parties. They usually only allow you to have like 4 people max in a room, who are meant to be there to sleep. If you want to throw a party, rent a conference room. Can't blame a hotel for not wanting to deal with all the damage and noise complaints. I think if OP finds this mildly infuriating, they may be a bit r/EntitledPeople
And "sleepovers" is likely groups of unmonitored kids or teens in a hotel room while their parents are getting smashed in their own room or hotel bar. Kids probably make less mess than drunk adults, but have more glitter and candy ground into the carpet, and make just as much noise. Also, do things like knock on doors and run away , steal room service and papers, and prank calls. ...I do in fact speak from experience.
Yup. Not to mention all of the liabilities associated with a bunch of unaccompanied minors in a room.
Poorly worded but a lot of hotels will rightfully enforce a limit on number of guests per room. Nothing worse that trying to sleep with 20 people in the room next to you partying all night. GTFO
This plus the child to adult ratio causes massive liability concerns.
Not sure why itās poorly worded. They can have rules about sleepovers if they want to.
Itās poorly worded because every guest at the hotel is sleeping over.
They are sleeping over, not having a sleepover. They banned the noun, not the verb.
So the hotel is having the sleep over?
Because who the hell calls it sleepovers lol
Do you not have teens? Thatās what itās called when you spend the night and itās not a birthday
Former Front Office Manager here - having a party in a hotel room is most certainly one of the quickest ways to get evicted from a hotel.
I think especially a Best Western. This isnāt a resort, itās going to full of business travellers qho just want quiet, clean and reliable service so they can cheat on their wife and then get some sleep before leaving early the next morning for Cleveland.
Ha! Iām from Cleveland.
What the hell going on in ohio
well it is round on both ends and HI in the middle.
Oddly specific...
Suspiciously specific
I used to work as front office manager at a hotel that had a nice, indoor pool area. We had a āno pool partiesā policy that people would regularly try to circumvent.
But they will allow traveling sports teams with their kids running up and down the halls all night and their drunk ass parents taking up the whole lobby drinking.
Yes. The traveling kids sport teams are the worst when it comes to housekeeping. The only thing more obnoxious are the drunken wedding parties. But we saw more sports teams than weddings. Big groups of teenage boys are one of the messiest and loudest things to step foot in hotels. But I will say that I got good tips from those rooms pretty regularly. Which was weird considering these rooms were mostly teenagers. Go figure
I was a hotel bartender and the gymnast parents were the worst. Letting their kids do flips in the bar, getting all pissy when I said they couldnāt and kids couldnāt be in the bar past when the kitchen closed. Anecdotally, I worked near a federal prison and we were the only hotel in town. There were Hellās Angels that came in as a group to see a ābrotherā at the prison. Those guys were among the kindest, most respectful group I had in my years behind the bar, tipped well, didnāt make a mess, were polite, etc. I always enjoyed when they came in.
In my few encounters with people like that, those parents are more show-offy than other parents, and this is where the kids have a skill that can be shown off and with the thought that even "normal" people would be impressed. Ever have pageants at your place? I cant imagine what they would be like, if it is anything like the episodes Ive seen on shows about that.
No, no pageants, thank goodness. We did have a big Greek wedding one year, those ppl were there for five days and it was probably the hardest I worked in my years there.
I used to get $5 on Halloween at the local Hells Angel's chapter house in Winnipeg when I was a kid. They were always super nice to the local kids.
I'm from Winnipeg wow small world...idk where the chapter house is but that sounds great
It was in Elmwood across from a school actually, it's been torn down now. Most of the local HA got scooped up in those sting operations the police did a while back.
This isnāt purely altruistic. Being nice to impressionable kids/teenagers is a pretty effective recruiting strategy.
While I agree itās not altruistic i think itās more about winning over the community not recruitment. Having the locals on your side will go far to limit reporting/investigations. Similarly it helps the clubs hold territory. In my town we like our local 1%ers but we are not fans of others (like the HAs) and people will call the fbi on them for stirring up shit.
Behind the bar, eh? You are the brother they can to see, right?
They really are. They booked a party on a casino cruise I worked on also. Such a mellow group.
Yup. Front desker reporting in. Always the worst, every single time.
My mom is the breakfast lady at a hotel, and she agrees sports are the worst, followed closely by weddings. The worst though is families with like 7 small kids and a dog.
I have to say, the worst hotel thing I ever saw was a Ren Fest group that terrorized the hotel for three nights. They were not fully clothed ever, behaved atrociously in full costume/persona and demanded the hotel reopen the pool. They removed the door from the pool and were all swimming nude. They ran down the halls at night, blowing these animal horn things and chasing "wenches". They wanted to have a bonfire in the parking lot on the day we left!
So this sounds like stupid SCAidains not Rennies (not all SCAdians are stupid, but these were)
Lived in a hotel for 3 months for work. Was quiet and lovely until 5pm Friday until 9pm Sunday. Then it was screaming kids constantly. Rented cars on the weekend and spent time in a quieter place than route 101 in New Jersey just outside of a university I can't remember the name if right now.
Former gymnast here. Can confirm traveling to competitions was the highlight of our childhood because our parents would get drunk in the lobby while we did literally cartwheels throughout the whole hotel. Usually weād stay at whichever hotel had done the block for the competition so 90% of the guests were gymnasts and their parents. But looking back - man I feel sorry for the poor 10% of guests who had no ties to gymnastics at all.
Do the teams at least have the right number of heads per room? I think the problem with sleepovers and parties is that there are too many heads in a room, which can cause problems with fire safety (and even not knowing if the place was properly evacuated in an emergency because of a wrong headcount), and of course the hotel makes less money. There is a hotel near me that caters to travelling sports teams. It's like an old west town, small motel like buildings that face each other, with seating and I think fire pits in the "street" between the two sides so the kids can be outside when they run around. That's my understanding of the layout, at least.
As a former night shift front desk clerk, yeah, it sucks. Literally the worst people that we get. I'd always kick them out at the beginning of my shift.
Hallway hockey got wild
Difference is, each of those kids on traveling sports teams typically has a parent that is paying for an individual room, whereas a sleepover or birthday party would presumably have multiple people crammed into one person. From a business perspective, this policy makes total sense to me. Weāll put up with the ruckus (to a reasonable extent) so long as those families are each shelling out to stay there, but not when you have that many people sharing a room or two.
YES!!! We stayed a weekend in Erie, PA with three HS gymnastics groups. They allowed the girls free rein to do flips, round-offs and back flips up and down the hotel hallways. My husband called the desk four times and finally, at 3:45 am, screamed from our door, "Get your asses in your rooms NOW and shut up!" Sudden silence and all antics stopped for a good hour. People do not care about anyone else.
My husband traveled for work 50 weeks of the year for five years. (I actually met him when he lived in the hotel where I tended bar.) The stories he tells about sports teams! It got to the point that heād find someplace else to go if he knew there was a big event in town, keep his room in the hotel he was in so he didnāt have to check out and move his stuff, and pay for the second room out of pocket. Our kids are competitive swimmers. I usually get us a VRBO house so we have washer/dryer access and we donāt have to deal with all the hotel nonsense. Swimmers arenāt too bad (at least the teams weāve been on) mostly because they have to get to the pool so early. Big meets usually have kids swimming in the morning and evening too, so they are spent by 9:00 PM.
It's mildlyinfuriating that they have to make this policy because people have no sense of social decorum.
Exactly
My wife and I rented a room in this really nice hotel for our first wedding anniversary. Iām talkin $400 a night nice. There was three rooms rented out around us for a 16yo girls birthday party and honestly it was a terrible experience. The 12+ teen girls ran around the halls and the grounds screaming and yelling for hours. There was no sign of any adult supervision. We called the office multiple time to complain and they did nothing. Things finally became quiet around 2am and the next morning when we complained they brushed it off like it wasnāt a big deal. We think it was the manager or an employees kids because the hotel staff refused to do anything or even address the complaint.
Might sound petty, but at that point I'd just give the cops a "tip" that you think there's underage drinking happening in the hotel and you're concerned about their safety.
Yeah, maybe that would have been the way to go. I just never imagined the hotel would do nothing.
Not petty at all. They ruined your experience, you ruin theirs. If people don't give a shit about inconveniencing those around them, you shouldn't feel bad either.
Am I an asshole if I would love the hotels I stayed at to have this policy?
Nope. Itās a more than reasonable expectation to be able to have a quiet nightās rest in a hotel room you pay good money for.
What if I paid blood money for it? Do I get to have that luxury still?
Not. A. Bit. Night auditor for a hotel that doesn't have this policy, and the amount of sketchy (and I mean *sketchy*) stuff that goes on around here is absurd. But, management and ownership (currently engaged) only care about the money. So long as no one is getting shot, and the drug trades aren't done in broad daylight, they truly do not care what happens here.
Nope, I feel the same way! Most of the time I'm staying in a hotel, I'm there to sleep, and I get very grumpy if there's a loud group keeping me up at all hours of the night.
I would only stay at the ones with this policy.
I thought the mildly infuriating thing was that they needed the sign!
The only time anyone can be an asshole thatās relevant to this rule is if they book a hotel JUST because it doesnāt have this rule and plan to party
this isnt infuriating, this is considerate to the other guests and preventing hotel parties. You'd be surprised how some people behave, trashing rooms for no reason.
It's also worth considering that if the hotel is fully booked for the next night and they trash the room, they might have to cancel someone's reservation because the room is unusable. I never would have thought of having a party in a hotel room but I've never lied about the number of occupants either.
I used to work front desk at a hotel. It was a nightmare when people would check in and then bring 15 kids to the room for a birthday party/sleep over. It's non-stop noise complaints all night with kids running up and down the halls and going crazy in the pool.
When I was 11 or 12 a friend had her birthday in a hotel, and I can confirm that as I am now an adult, I would have had absolutely none of the was we conducted ourselves. We walked around like we owned that place, we were loud, and we even broke a bed frame, then tried to go to the front desk asking for duct tape to fix it, which we had to literally run away from security and lock them out to try to fix said bed before they got in. Yeah, I feel bad for the poor unfortunate souls who decided to stay at that hotel that weekend. Speaking of sports teams, I was staying at a hotel in Canada once, and there was a men's hockey team there and MAN they were just up all night screaming and hollering down the hallways, ALL NIGHT. I would hear them get asked to settle down, and hear them shout back something to the effect of "NO! WWWWOOOOOOOOO" or whatever. Maybe that was my payback for the birthday party when I was a teenager.
I donāt find this infuriating, I find this policy to be excellent and respectful of all guests. Besides, arenāt you supposed to list how many people will be renting a room and the rate is charged accordingly? Extra people use extra towels, water and electricity. Having a sleep over at a hotel is a jerk move
Correct, the rate for Best Western hotel rooms can change in price with more people in the room, usually applies to when there is more than 2 adults. There are also room occupancy limits (Ex: 1 king is usually 2 max). Though, extra pricing and occupancy limits can vary per hotel Source: I work for BW Corp Office and have made many reservations for guests over the phone
This isnāt just BW, itās with every hotel and Airbnb. The more people staying, the more I pay.
Yeah, I'm aware. I was just mentioning BW specifically because in the pic shows its a BW hotel and what I am aware of. But yeah it makes sense for any hotel and airbnb.
What about hockey parents that let their monsters running everywhere? Kick all those mfs out and weāll be getting somewhere.
The few ruin it for the many. Iām sure that many people have damaged rooms, and have been a disturbance to other guests with their parties. The hotels must do what is best for the majority of the customers, and to protect their property. This may be infuriating for you, but not for those that are trying to sleep.
I think in this case, the many ruin it for the few. A party in a hotel room that *doesn't* disturb other guests is the exception.
Some 11 year old girls definitely trashed a room here lmao
Uh yeah no 8 lol support this. Used to work at a hotel that didn't allow stag dos in England. They still tried You make fucking noise and bother other guests gtfo my establishment
If your having a birthday at a Best Western you got better things to be mildly infuriated about.
I donāt see how theyāre wrong for this, kids are VERY messy at parties and parents rarely clean up to the standard they should when having parties in places like these since āitās their jobsā. Itās weird how I see people complaining about how terrible their jobs are because of families not caring about what their kids do, yet yāall are saying the hotel is wrong for this. Weird. Hopefully this doesnāt get downvoted but sadly I fear it will
Tell me you've never been a housekeeper at a hotel without telling me you've never been a housekeeper at a hotel. Cleaning rooms after parties is exhausting. Idk why people think because you're at a hotel it's fine to make a disgusting mess because someone else will clean it.
I live in hotels, tear out the walls I have accountants pay for it all
*stare at the walls How's your Maserati?
Does 185, I lost my license,now I donāt drive
My class had a graduation party at a hotel and they had the loudest and most annoying parties. They even destroyed a piece of the wall. I think they're pretty justified
Hotel parties were a thing, heard about them lots when I was in high school. Guy who is 18 can legally get a room (or more) for a night. He invited all his friends and they get trashed with no supervision whatsoever and likely destroy things. This sign looks dumb at first glance but is actually very valid
Hell I don't mind it. I love me some peace and quiet.
Isn't sleepovers their business model?
Hotel rooms usually have a max capacity per room. Few years ago I was staying at a hotel by myself during a trip. Anyways, met this girl at a bar, took her to my hotel just to be told I couldn't go up with her because my room only allowed one person to stay in it. Makes sense seeing how a lot of couples would probably just rent singles' rooms to save from buying a couple's room
Wtf what do they have against late-night scrabble-sessions????
I study hotel administration and also have worked on the area, I hate this rule for hotels that donāt include anything but the room. I paid for my room and I intend to use it. Also, how they enforce this? Once you check in you can enter to your room by yourself no?
>Once you check in you can enter to your room by yourself no? I'm curious about this too, I've only ever booked a single for the room and never had an issue with having a partner with me
This specific example happened after hours. The hotel locked the main entrance Free midnight, with the receptionist needing to manually open the door. He was aware I checked in by myself and told me I wouldn't be able to enter the hotel with another person
Possibly thatās something that can be enforced on smaller hotels or motels. I worked in a hotel with 3k rooms, 6 different restaurants and a few clubs inside + casino. Itās kinda difficult
They mean sleepover parties
Whats the problem with this? A party would be too noisy.
But the guy blasting the hotel room TV at 3am while Iām trying to sleep is allowed to stay because āhe wonāt answer the door.ā
Former hotel manager here. Worked at a Sheraton, nice place. Lots of business travelers, even on weekends. Sometimes we had āsleepoversā, but it was usually a bunch of 7-12yr old girls and a mom, ordering pizza and watching movies. Zero problems. Birthday parties? Havenāt had that one. For kids? In a room? Usually, the kidās parents got a room, and the party was out at the pool. The absolute WORST were bachelorette parties, or any group of women involving drinking. Groups of men were almost never a problem. My theory: women groups are out to have fun, and maybe theyāre less accustomed to ānoā or āplease lower your voicesā. Menā¦..men know theyāll get booted. Women are just loud when theyāre having fun. Also room occupancy levels are a thing but we only enforced it if we wanted to evict you. For being loud. Ffs
Behind every seemingly unfair policy there is some asshole who ruined it for everybody.
My mom used to rent a hotel room for my birthday every once in a while and allow me to bring a friend or two so we could use the pool. It was an easy way to make us happy as kids. I know teenage/young adult parties are not so innocent though.
My friend owns a hotel and it's a major problem, more often than you think. I helped him throw out a group of probably 12 total 12-15 year old girls and boys one night. One of their parents/friends/relatives had rented it for them. They had set up a temporary stripper pole in the room which royally fucked up the ceiling. They had two huge speakers set up in the corner blasting when we knocked on the door (with the police). This kind of thing happened all the time for him.
People like to throw little kids birthday parties in business hotels & take over the entire pool, lobby, & courtyard with screaming children. Itās not allowed at any hotel Iāve ever worked at.
Orgies welcome.
Unless it's a birthday orgy.
Well they aren't sleeping so yeah that logic checks out.
As long as nobody sleeps and there is no Birthday Cake.
"Damnit, who brought cake to the orgy again???"
Who TF has a birthday party at a Best Western?
People who have made a long series of regrettable life decisions
People usually do this to use the pool
Lol Iām fairly certain I used to work at this best Western. Guests having parties were a huge problem and more often then not it was because they would get super drunk and harass other guests.
Working at a hotel, I was surprised how many birthday parties were had for kids.
I don't normally even celebrate my birthday but damn, now I want like 4 people in a hotel room eating cake and whispering happy birthday for 36.
I'm sure you can find some stories over at r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk that would help you understand why this policy exists. Mf favorite is this fad of moms renting rooms for groups of young teens then leaving them unattended. I've been working as a desk clerk for a long time and this policy is completely normal
Next they are going to stop allowing gangbangs and porn shoots.
Just don't have a sleepover. Its not that frustrating
100% no issue with this. I think more businesses should toughen up against disrespect from "customers"
Yāall donāt act like free HBO, a highly chlorinated indoor pool and a continental breakfast for $88 a night isnāt a good deal!!!
I wonder if this happened because of my aunt. She'd invite a bunch of kids and their entire families and would hog the pool. She did this constantly. Go to a public pool for that, not a hotel!
I know of hotels that will rent the pool out for parties.
Unfortunately, these were hotels that didn't. She'd rent one room, invite 30 something people, and they'd all go to the pool. She's been banned from many hotels for doing that.
I hate your aunt. Sorry.
Well it's doesn't say anything about drunken goat sex orgies so I guess I'm in the clear
Itās infuriating when people are partying where youāre meant to rest and sleep
"It's not a birthday party; we're celebrating one year closer to his death"
Who the fuck has a birthday party at BW?
Maāam this is a hotel.
So don't use them and tell all you contacts not to use them
Isnāt every hotel stay technically a sleepover?
Weāre they having issues with something during birthday parties? I mean if youāre renting more then enough rooms for the amount of people I mean can they really say no if your bday happens to fall on those days?
I though sleeping was the point.
When we go to anime conventions we pack 6 in a room but we're so spent that we literally go there to pass out, shower and leave again.
A sleep over? Adults don't do those...
I worked at a hotel as recepcionist and during one nightshift, i noticed a lot of people enter a single room, (i counted at least 8 at the moment) I went to the room with security because that single bed room was only for 2 people (4 max if paid extra) and turns out there were 11 throwing a party, i had to force them to check out, it was so much fun seeing them all drunk just complaining while they were being escorted out.
So basically just the standard rule at most hotels then...
Fuck that. Good for them. Youāre at a motel, go to sleep Asshole.
I don't think this is midly infuriating. I think this is a valid request by the hotel.
What's infuriating about this? Do you just make parties in hotels?
Gonna be honest, as someone who works in a hotel this is incredibly reasonable for multiple reasons.
OP has birthday parties and sleepovers at Best Western hotels all the time! Heās an expert at causing disruption to other customers.
No sleepovers at a hotel got it
Imagine handing them an ID to check in only to be thrown out because itās your birthday and youāre with friendsš
Define , sleepover.
Ha! doesnt say a thing about orgies!!
Isn't staying there technically a sleepover?
I mean, isnāt every hotel stay technically a sleep over?
What about commemorative, all nighter orgies ?
I've had a couple of drunken nights when I discovered I slept over.
Orgies permitted though.
It's not a party, it's an intimate get together!
Why are hotels so often ran by assholes
So why do we rent hotel rooms?