things a hotel cannot control?

[thehippie777]

I will forever hate the inquiry: "This is a quiet room, right?"

What am I supsta say? No, you got the awful pleasure of sharing the room with a circus?

I mean, why do people think that is a logical question to ask? The entire hotel is right beside a highway...so you tell me!? I can not garantee the neighboring rooms are going to be respectful to you...I cannot control them as much as I can't control you.

What do you all think?

[smileyeagle1021]

in all fairness... some hotels do have quiet zones where guests have to sign an agreement that if they get any complaints they will be asked to leave the hotel...

i'm taking it though your hotel is not one of those..

[thehippie777]

All of our rooms are double-padded. I have personally stayed in rooms in this hotel, and I have even slept during the day...without waking up once. Basically, our hotel is small enough that if anyone is making noise (like a party), they just lost their right to be here. So, as far as I am concerned, everyone has signed the "quiet zones" form the minute they rent here.

[friendofjimmyk]

What am I supsta say? No, you got the awful pleasure of sharing the room with a circus?

?

*cue the circus music* I don't know why - but that statement made me giggle.

[Sparky]

"This is a quiet room, right?"

Maybe they're really asking "This is not the room right next to the ice machine, or the one right across from the elevators, or the one with the air conditioner that makes the high-pitched squeal all night long, or the one just above the bar, or the one everyone has to walk past to get to and from the pool, right?"

[BaristaTrav]

"Usually. yes. But tonight Megadeth is staying in the room next door and they like to plug in and run through their set 2 or 3 times starting around 3 am."

[ebonyknight]

I will forever hate the inquiry: "This is a quiet room, right?"

What do you all think?

I think you just hate the customers.

[South Texan]

"This is a quiet room, right?"

"Well, I never have heard the room itself make any noise, so I think it is safe to state that the room is a quiet one. Then again, it may just be a little shy."

[greensinestro]

To me, it's difficult to get a quiet room at any hotel. I have had my share of problems, like the time this family came with their whiney little girl who not one time would shut up. I had to pound on the wall to get them to shut her up, being it was very late at night, and it was as bad as the Chinese water torture.

My dad also had an issue once where this man above him was pacing his room, apparently for exercising. He would go back and forth, go up to his door, then pound on it. After about five minutes of this, my dad took his ironing board and pounded on the ceiling with it. Needless to say, this man stopped his exercising.

[calulu]

If you want a quiet room or an ADA acomm you have to really do your research I've discovered. Disney ignored my ADA accom and nearly killed me before ending up picking up the tab for my stay in their overpriced resort.

But the quiet issue is a tricky one. I've learned whenever booking a new hotel to ask how far from the interstate, look at a map online showing exactly what the proximity to traffic the sleeping arrangements are, nearby bars, strip clubs, etc.

Too many times in the past I've stopped someplace that looked 'nice' from the interstate only to have a sleepless night due to hooting truckers and rednecks coming and going out of the bar/tittyclub/diner next door all night long, or heard the roar of traffic all night long.

Worst. Night. Stay. Ever!! Took place in Americus, Georgia this December in the only 'nice' hotel in town, which happened to be a perfectly pedestrian nicer chain hotel. I was troubled to notice when we pulled up that attached was a restaurant/bar with what looked like 300 pound redneck hookers and assorted drunken redneck trash loitering in the parking lot. Live music and noise spilling out of the bar. I asked the clerk if there was any way to be put towards the back of the building, as far away from the bar situation as possible. Oh, yes ma'm, the room was at the end of the building, farthest from the bar and traffic. And once the bar closed at 1 am the real fun started, squealing tires, shouted obscenities, sex noises from adjoining rooms, running, screaming, yelling, etc. No one slept a wink and calling the front desk did no good at all. I would have switched hotels but, there ARE no other hotels there in rural Georgia... What do you do in a situation like that without coming off as a SC?

[Evil Queen]

What is an ADA? I used to go to Americus a lot, what hotel did you stay at? My Dad stayed in a nice Ramada Inn (or was it Red Roof?) in Cordele. He really liked it there. (he was there for three months on a job sight.)

I usually tell poeple "Oh, you'll be on the third floor so it should be nice and quiet." Or "We're not at full compacity tonight but if someone's making a LOT of noise, please tell me."

[Umingmaq]

I think of a quiet room as one away from the unavoidable sources of noise: elevators, ice machines, directly over the bar, next to the highway rather than in the other wing, etc. I don't think I've ever asked for one up front, but I have thanked the clerk when they told me they were giving me one of these gems. I don't take it as a guarantee.

[greensinestro]

But the quiet issue is a tricky one. I've learned whenever booking a new hotel to ask how far from the interstate, look at a map online showing exactly what the proximity to traffic the sleeping arrangements are, nearby bars, strip clubs, etc.

I've had this issue also happen to me. Once at a Key West Quality Inn, I requested one of their nicer rooms, and it had a balcony overlooking A1A. No sleep hardly at all, due to hearing the traffic go by all night long.

Or, at a Best Western inside Disney World, we had this nice room with a view, right outside of the elevators. All night long, we got to hear the "ding!" of the elevator opening and arriving, plus the sound of drunks getting out to continue their partying. And, even if you request a room at the rear as far away as possible from where you think the noise is, it will follow you.

In Lake City, I took my boys to the Ichetucknee River, and our room was right outside the stairs. No elevators at all. At around midnight, this was when a group of six decided to hang outside, drinking beer and smoking. Had to call the front desk to get them to leave.

And my favorite, in Atlanta, GA when we stayed at a Ramada Inn where a basketball team was staying. Called the front desk three times that night to no avail, the cops even showed up a couple of times, yet nothing could be done to stop the noise. I don't know about anyone else, but when I took trips like this for school or sports, strict rules were in place against stuff like this.

So, yes, I know all about how unquiet hotel rooms are. I used to love getting away from home, but there is nothing like sleeping in your own house in your own bed.

[smileyeagle1021]

What is an ADA? ."

Normally when someone says ADA they mean they need a room that meets Americans with Disabilities Act requirements (i know that's what our chain calls rooms that can be accessed by wheelchairs)

[Andara Bledin]

I feel sorry for all of you people who can't sleep around traffic.

I'm a city girl, so traffic to me is no more distracting than a fan; it's just white noise.

As for noisy people in neighboring rooms, call the front desk every time there's a problem. Banging on walls/ceilings is a bad idea as not only are you making noise for other guests, but you never know when the noisy person is some psycho with a weapon.

Also, if you don't call the desk to complain when it's happening not only can they do nothing about it, but you'll look suspicious when you mention it the next morning. How many crackpots do the hotel people post about who say nothing their entire stay, but when it comes time to check out, suddenly nothing was good enough and now they want everything comped?

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