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Hotel etiquette - has it been forgotten?

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ordinarygirl Thu 18-Jun-26 14:18:28

I've always tried to be quiet in hotel corridors and not have the volume too high on the hotel TV. Yet last time we stayed there was a family with young children still shouting and screaming after mid-night. No attempt by the parents to get the children to be quiet. We had 2 nights of loud noises. Then when they left we had a group of women going back and forth between the rooms and having discussions in the corridors.
The spyhole in the bedroom door was a good 6 inches above my eyes. I did not enter the corridor as I had a short nightie.

Was it just bad luck or have people forgotten that hotels are shared spaces and people need to act accordingly ?

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ExDancer Thu 18-Jun-26 14:28:02

We stayed overnight at a Travelodge before an early flight, and had the same experience ordinarygirl in spite of notices asking guests to be considerate.
People just don't seem to "think" any more!

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Charleygirl5 Thu 18-Jun-26 14:29:19

Unfortunately many don't care, and it is me, I and myself and stuff you.

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Fallingstar Thu 18-Jun-26 14:56:16

I agree that if people pay for something they expect to be able to be as rude as they like, is so entitled. Air travel is rife with rude entitled passengers is not just hotels, and I imagine the same is true of much of the service industry.
The good thing about PremierInns is that they make a promise of a good nights sleep and you can get a refund if loud noises in the night prevent this from happening, or at least a friend of mine got a full refund after a drunken bunch of women partying in their room all night kept her and her DH awake.
We always kept noise to a minimum and if we put the TV on turned down the volume and didn’t put it on last thing at night or first thing in the morning.

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MT62 Thu 18-Jun-26 15:41:56

My bug bare. I’ve opened the door before now I politely asked people to be quiet, only after putting up with same two couples talking into the small hours outside our door for a few nights in a row. TBF I never heard them again.
I now ask for a quiet room away from the lifts.

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