Hotel etiquette - has it been forgotten?

Oh yes and choose my room as I know where they all are.

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.

Well I stayed at a lovely quiet small guesthouse recently and it was lovely and friendly and very peaceful but not a place families would choose.

My fave hotel is more upmarket and old and thick walls and I save up to go one a year as its somewhere I can hang out all day when I want come and go and the bar for coffee and drinks open and friendly all day. Nice as I am on my own there.

I'd rather go there once save up than cheaper and more often and fret about noise etc. 6 days off season were about £1200 B,B, and dinner.

Gingster

My brother 85 and SIL 83 stayed in a premier Inn last weekend and were kept awake by a couple having a long lasting row/fisty cuffs in the corridor. Then later by a couple having a noisy, amorous time in the next room. They phoned down to the reception who came to investigate.

Did the staff actually knock on the door?

My brother 85 and SIL 83 stayed in a premier Inn last weekend and were kept awake by a couple having a long lasting row/fisty cuffs in the corridor. Then later by a couple having a noisy, amorous time in the next room. They phoned down to the reception who came to investigate.

oh the dressing gown thing is certainly becoming more common too!

I think it depends where you stay. I have only had this when we've stayed in city centre hotels

I travel a lot for work and agree.....other hotel guests can be clueless. It's not necessarily the norm, after all you don't hear people being quiet!
Personally, i think there needs to be a bit of tolerance for guests arriving at odd hours. However, loud conversations in corridors and that furniture moving!! Madness!!
Try and request end of corridor or top floor room.
If things get out of hand, I would call reception or have been known to go down in pjs to complain. I have found Premier Inn excellent..they sell ' a guaranteed good night's sleep" and have always been responsive to constructive complaints with full refunds.

GrannyGravy13

Sago

We stayed in a beautiful hotel in Kent.

I was very shocked when a group came down for breakfast in their dressing gowns.

If the hotel had a Spa, seeing folk in dressing gowns for breakfast and lunch is fairly commonplace nowadays.

It didn’t😬

I think if it wasn't a spa I wouldn't like that!

Sago

We stayed in a beautiful hotel in Kent.

I was very shocked when a group came down for breakfast in their dressing gowns.

The staff should have refused to serve them, as they're inappropriately dressed.

Send them back to their room(s) and come back in day clothes, like most of us manage to do.

Sago

We stayed in a beautiful hotel in Kent.

I was very shocked when a group came down for breakfast in their dressing gowns.

If the hotel had a Spa, seeing folk in dressing gowns for breakfast and lunch is fairly commonplace nowadays.

We stayed in a beautiful hotel in Kent.

I was very shocked when a group came down for breakfast in their dressing gowns.

On our holiday in the North East of the UK a couple of years ago we didn't have this trouble at all. We stayed mainly in independent hotels, fairly averagely priced, and had some wonderful experiences. I can't remember any disturbance in hotels in the US either.

In Spain and France I have been disturbed in the night by "honeymooning couples" , (but that was nothing compared to being on campsites where the people in the neighbouring tents are on air mattresses)

Where possible l check that none of the hotel reviews mention noise disturbance before I book. Sometimes however there is only a choice between traffic noise and a closed window/stuffy room. Going to smaller hotels should eliminate hen and stag or other partying groups.

At this very moment we’re in a hotel near Skipton. Next door is a family with a baby who isn’t settling down to sleep, probably because it’s an unfamiliar place! Dad is constantly telling him/her to lie down. A dummy would be handy. We always have one available for our grandson. Better than a thumb - our son sucked his thumb until after starting school!

I think it depends on the type of hotel. But then again a hotel can’t choose who stays in it. But if this happened to me I would ask to change rooms.

The same applies to living in a flat. I'm in a small 3 storey block. Some people have no understanding of the word communal.

At a Premier Inn, a few years ago, the manager came and had strong words with some noisy teenagers. I got the impression he told them he could ask them to leave , even in the middle of the night.
Has anyone thought of knocking on the door of the noise makers with. “ Your morning wake-up call”

I carry a small can of WD40 for the squeaky corridor doors

We've booked cabins on overnight ferries, only to be next door to people who seem to party all night or screaming children banging about etc.etc. We need our sleep before the long journey the next day, are we expecting too much?

I was once upgraded to a suite after ringing reception twice to complain about an out of control unbelievably noisy child (I'm talking decibels louder than any fire alarm!) roaming the 1st floor corridor at 2am and again at 3am - my next two nights on the top floor were bliss!

A lot of the I paid so will do as I please about.And, I'm convinced a lot of young and 40 somethings are at the point of being deaf. They talk so loudly no matter where they are, surely all the sound blasting inside cars znd wearing if geadphones so much must have an effect on their hearing.

I've obviously been lucky as I haven't been disturbed in a hotel as far as I remember. I don't often stay in hotels but when DD lived in Scotland I always broke the journy somewhere half way as I couldn't do the 400 miles in one go.
The only bad experience I remember was once being given a 'smoking' room which absolutely stank! It's years ago but \I still remember how unpleasant it was!

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.

Yes, that could be a solution if the room has a phone. Not all hotel rooms have one now - the one we stayed in recently to break our journey did not have a phone in the room.

Over the years,I have stayed in five star hotels and no star places and everything in between.

Just about every hotel or guest house I have ever stayed in has been noisy. I can't remember any noisy children but I have endured noisy whoopie, impromptu parties, shouting competitions in the corridor, furniture scraping round the room, drunks banging on the door etc.

My memories go back over 70 years so I don't think it is anything new.

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