Hotel etiquette - has it been forgotten?

NotSpaghetti

Is the answer to use more "upmarket" hotels?

I admit we always ask for a quiet room. There's always a few it seems yo me.

Probably yes, but as JackyB said, this comes at a price.
I agree with GrannyGravy13, choose a good boutique hotel. Here's what we get in one of our favourites.
Coffee & Tea Facilities
Flat-screen TV
Desk with writing-materials (pen and paper)
Posh toiletries
Slippers and bathrobe
Telephone & 24/7 room service
etc etc etc

Hotel etiquette probably gone same way as theatre etiquette!! Nothing boils my blood more than paying for theatre/concert tickets and having folks constantly getting up to go to the bar/food/toilet, using their mobiles or talking throughout. I have list it with several people in our small local theatres when they choose to talk through the show. The theatre staff seem to not want to confront these people. I liked it when you couldn't take food in (who wants to smell of fish and chips whilst watching a ban, you could only drink in the interval and unless a real emergency you stayed in your seat until interval/the end. I love my small local venues but some people should really not come to events if they can't keep quiet for a couple hours!

Totally agree Charleygirl5

I tend to go out of season when schools aren’t off.
I don’t mind families. but
I wouldn’t ever go in the high season, when it’s ‘ here we go’, here we go’ 🤣

Don't go to hotels in England at all.
But when abroad try and do Adult Only stay at good hotels with older people.

Where there are daily visits by Company Reps and you can just phone down to Reception if you have a noise problem and they sort it out.

Before this decision. I had a quite a few holidays ruined by dimbo,,massively entitled adults and their out of control children in hotels. They just took. over the place.

Especially in the Canary Islands. Seemed to be par for the course.

The loss of manners and consideration has been going slowly down hill since the Seventies. And was made official when Thatcher came into power.

Nanny27

Yes, sadly the 'good night's sleep guarantee' is long gone from Premier Inn, more's the pity

No, they still have this.

Wherever and whenever possible we opt for smaller boutique hotels, never had a noise problem like some explained on here.

DH always asked for a room away from the lifts and the ice machines, seemed to work.
My worst experience in a 5 star NY hotel was a couple of American men with very loud voices talking loudly outside my room at around 5am, I had only landed just after midnight and was desperately tired I got out of bed opened the door and shouted at them, they just stared at me and walked on, I must have looked a fright but I didn't care.
When I checked out of the same hotel, a porter collected the luggage and I left the room a few minutes after him. I found my jacket which had been hanging on the luggage trolley on the floor in the corridor! Didn't stay there again.

Is the answer to use more "upmarket" hotels?

I admit we always ask for a quiet room. There's always a few it seems yo me.

Sadly, it’s always been a bit like that with the entitled minority who seem to believe the world exists around themselves and their (ghastly) children.

Most of us brought/bring up our children to be well mannered and considerate.

I still think the majority of families do this still, sadly, the ignorant and the rude tend to be the loudest!!

MartavTaurus

Did you phone down to the hotel reception to report it? That's usually the way.

My friend always takes ear plugs. I'd rather know what's going on and be ready to react.

@#£%&-

In most hotels the reception desk isn't manned during the night. At least I've not seen that for ages.

I don't do hotels very often but have stayed in the Ibis Borehamwood several times over the last few years, both weekends and during the week. I can honestly say that apart from a couple of doors opening or closing along the corridor it has been so quiet. I love staying there because of this.

Most of the Premier Inns we have stayed at have been reasonably quiet but we have had a couple where people were charging about all night. I think it's the luck of the draw and depends n what is happening nearby.

One was a hen party - girls in three rooms all collecting in the room next to ours, drinking and screaming into the small hours. They kept going back and fore between the rooms for some reason and the door closing was noisy.

The other was being used by guests at a big wedding close by and included a number of children. That wasn't quite so noisy or so late but the constant running up and down past the door was annoying.

Unfortunately it seems that nowadays so many people are ignorant and have no respect for anyone else, whether it is loud conversations in hotel corridors, letting doors slam shut late at night or early mornings, loud televisions or radios at all hours etc etc. I know I am a grumpy old woman, but it seems these sort of people don’t give a about anyone else. Don’t get me started on mobile phones on speakerphone - I don’t want to have to listen to other people’s inane conversations! Grrrrr…….

Yes, sadly the 'good night's sleep guarantee' is long gone from Premier Inn, more's the pity

We went to Malta many years ago and stayed in a lovely big hotel. It was over Easter which is a big celebration there. A family moved in the room next door. It was horrendous that night. Screaming, shouting and the sound of furniture being smashed up. They were gone the next day. I can't imagine the damage that was done.

We did not phone down as there is no phone in the room any longer - it is expected everyone has a smart phone

We got a full refund from an Irish hotel because the fire alarm accidentally went off in the middle of the night. We all had to troop out in our jimjams! Not the same thing i know.

hi FALLINGSTAR- the refund is no longer standard policy. In the past we've had refunds ( especially when the bathroom ceiling collapsed on our bed due to faulty plumbing). You will see it that refunds are no longer advertised.

Fallingstar

What is the scraping of furniture all about? We once had a room below someone we swore must have been training to be in furniture removals, imho that tends to happen more in hotels abroad with tiled floors, thankfully most floors in hotels over here are carpeted.

Either checking they haven’t left anything, or the cleaner perhaps FS

Did you phone down to the hotel reception to report it? That's usually the way.

My friend always takes ear plugs. I'd rather know what's going on and be ready to react.

What is the scraping of furniture all about? We once had a room below someone we swore must have been training to be in furniture removals, imho that tends to happen more in hotels abroad with tiled floors, thankfully most floors in hotels over here are carpeted.

Visgir1

My is the early leavers who let doors bang, then seem to have a loud conversations in the corridor.

This & scraping of furniture from room above 😖

My is the early leavers who let doors bang, then seem to have a loud conversations in the corridor.

I did once get a refund on a hotel room because it was next to the AC unit and the din it made cutting in and out all night made sleep impossible.

Nowadays, there seem to be so many disturbances in hotels that I think it’s best to be prepared and take ear plugs, annoying as that is.