[/Quote] I think that we are discussing normal family noise vs a band of hooligans treating the resort room like it was a boxing ring. I am not going to be mad because a family next to me has a child who is crying at night, or whose kids are playing in the room at 8 PM. I may not enjoy a bunch of people talking in the halls at 1 AM but I understand that I am in a resort that is open late, and people are coming and going. Now if I am stuck next to a room where the family makes me wonder if an episode of Jerry Springer is being filmed, I an going to take action and one of us is moving. Makes no difference to me who, but something will change. I also am not going to tolerate smoking on my adjoining balcony. ANd if my girls are with me there better not be a level of ongoing profanity because that is a non starter with me as well.
I am pretty tolerant of behavior when I travel, however I am not giving Disney a pass if they have the guests from hades ensconced next to me just because we are staying in a family resort. BTW, the corridor noise happens everywhere, and it can be disturbing, but Disney is not the only place that happens. I will never go to a hotel on NYE again. Not ever.[/QUOTE]
Ok, you explained it better than I did. I wasn’t talking about “normal” noise, I was talking about excessive. The above and beyond normal. It did seem like some thought it should be accepted because it was Disney, kids are amped, and folks are on vacation. Sadly, I’ve had hotel neighbors that did feel that way and it was miserable.
I am actually quite tolerant of noise when we are out. I have three of my own kids that are quite close in age. So when they were little, we had to remind them to walk, or use inside voices, etc.
When my twins were about six months old and my daughter would have been about a year and a half, I stayed at a hotel by myself. I’ll spare you the long story why we were in that situation, but suffice it to say there wasn’t anything we could have done differently. One of my twins woke up in the middle of the night screaming and there was nothing I could do to calm him down. I felt so bad for all my neighbors. I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to take all three to my car and drive around, but couldn’t imagine taking him in the hallway the way he was screaming. It was awful.
So, I get it. I understand normal noise. I can relate, empathize, and sympathize. It’s when families seem to give everyone a pass because it’s a vacation that I lose patience. It’s my vacation too and I didn’t pay any amount to listen to your kids playing tag up and down our hallway at 10pm.
