Hotel Stays

Tha quiet peaceful camp not that I'm likely to stay in a hotel anytime soon

Oh quiet all the way! Not just people quiet. Machinery & traffic quiet.

I stayed in a fairly expensive (for me) hotel recently. The noise of the lift woke me up at 4am and I couldn't get back to sleep. In contrast, I've stayed in 2 budget hotels since then, beautifully quiet. Lavish surroundings aren't worth the expense, I'll pay for peace and quiet anytime.

P and Q every time.

Peace and quiet please and too far out of the centre of town to be undesirable to the hen and stag dos.
Friends love the really huge brash all inclusive hotels when they go away, they can’t understand why we won’t go away with them.

Agree - quiet and peaceful!

Quiet and peaceful please, any time. I love staying in hotels and haven't done so for ages. So I hope to this year.

I only do quiet and peaceful if I plan to be around the hotel much. If it's a 'convenience ' visit I do budget every time and love them.

I loved family hotels when my family was at that stage. Now we prefer “adults only”.

I haven't been in a hotel since well before the pandemic but quiet and peaceful for me every time.

I do wish there was a middle course! I do like a hotel with atmosphere and people around but not too noisy.

We have just come back from 3 nights in 'Blackpool'. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but we thoroughly enjoyed it.
The hotel is not far from the sea front and near to the shopping centre, walking distance to a lovely park, golf course,
bowling greens and the zoo. Blackpool is not just about amusement arcades, drunken people and fast food.
If you look at the outside of the centre you can find some lovely restaurants
All the rooms are soundproof. During the day you can sit in the lounge and have a coffee hardly see anyone.
There is a bar attached which anyone from outside can use but as it's still quiet.
In the evening there is entertainment if you want.
While we were there there was only family parties or couples. No hen/stagg parties which I don't think they allow.
This was a mix of peace & quiet or people to chat to if you wanted.

Quiet and not many people.

I am with aonk I like a hotel to have guests of all ages and to be buzzy

I also like hotels to have a quiet bar/snug/reading room/outside space available when I want to get away from everything.

I like a quiet buzz and atmosphere and hate places that are so quiet that you can hear every click of a knife and fork in a restaurant, I like the privacy that a busy restaurant gives, where I don't have to whisper or hear the conversation from neighbouring tables, but, I do not like shrieking, crass loud groups. So, a busy place full of people quietly going about their business and enjoying their stay without spoiling it for anyone else. I like to hear people enjoying themselves, a group of friends and family at a table, eating, drinking and enjoying each other's company, as long as they do not dominate. I agree about the necessity of a quiet room for those who wish to sit peacefully with a book and a glass of wine pot of tea

Yes a bit of buzz and people watching is nice. What I really can't bear is a wedding taking over the hotel: sandwiches only being served on the bar because staff are busy catering for the wedding, loud music until the small hours and drunken guests smoking under your windows and trying to find their rooms at 3am, no seats available in the lounge or lobby the next day because they're full of hungover guests sprawled unappetisingly around the place.

We always check now if there is a wedding taking place before we book a weekend away.

I like the buzzzzzzz…..of a full Hotel !

Yes, I agree about checking for weddings; to be honest, if it is a big 'do' it would be fairer to give them sole use, and then not have others being bothered by all the things Beswitched describes.

I'm with crazyH I love the buzz of a busy hotel, plenty of chatter in the restaurant and horror of horrors, I'm quite happy to see children out enjoying themselves with family!

A peaceful and quiet well run, rural establishment for weekend breaks. City establishments with restaurants and cafes within walking distance.

I don’t have any problem with children present if they are not allowed to run around bothering others guests, especially during meals. Whatever happened to children being taught how to use cutlery, basic table manners and to stay at the table until the meal was over? And, the parents are completely oblivious to the disruption they cause to other diners.

I am not a grumpy old fart, honestly. ?

We went to a hotel in hen a wedding was on. The hotel had closed off all the communal lounges and the garden. The only space left for others was the reception area. The bar was packed and when we finally got a drink there was nowhere to sit. So it's peace and quiet for me in hotels now.

Well fairly quiet but with some atmosphere otherwise it’s a rather depressing place!

I like a buzz to the place rather than sitting in a quiet subdued atmosphere in a dining room. Unfortunately it’s often one extreme or the other. A couple of years ago I was on holiday in Ireland and a group of about 8 hen party girls arrived in the hotel dining room for dinner. They were having dinner before hitting the town.

The bride was carrying a 4 feet high inflatable willy which the waitress suggested might be best left under the table. All the hilarity died down and everyone was enjoying their food when shrieks of laughter erupted around the dining room. A toddler at the next table to the hen girls had spotted the inflatable willy under their table, crawled under and took it and ran around the dining room holding it aloft. He was so little he couldn’t be seen above the tables and it looked like the inflatable had come to life and run off. The dining room was in an uproar but fortunately nobody was offended. The bride was mortified and apologised to everyone as they were leaving.

Definitely peaceful. Can’t stand groups of loud screechy women, or noisy men for that matter .