Would you let your child do this or am I over the top?

I wouldn't have given it an second thought. Do you always live in such fear?

So you watch her when waits for the school bus, or goes a few soors down to her friends house?

You're being ott. It's time to start loosening the apron strings. Yiull always qpeey about her wven when shes an adult but its important not to allow those fears to rub of on her and allow her independence

Russia, yes. America, no

Ridiculous!
God's sake, you're gonna freak her out about small stupid actions!
Get a grip

Same here, if you were concerned (and it would not have even crossed my mind) stand at the door and keep an eye on her as she goes there and back.

And why didn’t DH do it himself?

Op, I am like you. I don’t care what anyone says.

I had too many things happen to me as a kid. People can say you are itt or whatever but I had the bad luck to experience things people on here are saying will never happen.

I wouldn't want my daughter doing this either. You made the right call. Walking to a bin is hardly going to make a difference with promoting independence!

When my now 28yr old son was 7, we were staying in s hotel and he wanted some ice in his drink in our room. He knew there was an ice machine along the corridor, near the lift, so he grabbed our ice bucket and went off, on his own, to fetch some ice.
He was gone for about 7 or 8mins, even though I'd only expected it to take him 2 or 3mins, but he strolled into the room saying the machines on our floor and the one below were broken, so he'd had to go 2 floors down to fetch his ice.
As he'd returned to our room unscathed, he was clearly capable of going down 2 floors and coming back all on his own, without being accosted, at the age of 7, so allowing a 12yr old to go along the corridor to a bin, is, IMO, nothing to panic about.

You can think of a 'what if' for every situation, you need to risk asses. The chance of your scenario happening is low so I would have let her.

Yes I would absolutely let my 12 year old (or my 10 year old) do that chore - I’d probably stand at the door to watch them though unless they went together. Only because they’d likely forget which room we were in the first time. Once they’d done it once I would let them go alone the next time. A hotel is a hotel, and you’re only in the US it won’t be much different to a UK hotel.

It's a Marriott, not some down-at-heel motel. I wouldn't hesitate to let my 12 year old granddaughter do that, though honestly I'd be more likely to put the bin outside the door for emptying (and maybe ask the clerk why it hadn't been emptied when the room was cleaned).

Rotherham was a systematic abuse of girls

Not "grabbing a child in a well lit corridor, observed by cameras whilst their parents were clearly waiting for them in one of the 6 rooms on the floor"

Kind of hard to hide there

Part of the job of being a parent is to raise a child to be an independent, successful adult.

This is a graduated process. In 4 years time your DD maybe going to music festivals with her mates, by 18/19 they could be driving, at uni etc.

I think you are being a bit risk adverse.

And if there was anyone lurking, you are all in a hotel so if anyone didn't come back from disposing of garbage, security would have the hotel in lockdown before you could say pizza.

Cant believe the complacency of some of the replies on here. YES hotels in the UK are that unsafe. Young girls are assaulted on a large scale ( 1400 in Rotherham over a decade ) so dont drop your guard and keep your kids safe. !!!

Why didn’t you just stand at the door and watch her go down to the bin?

I agree with you, I would definitely rather be the one grabbed than my child. Surely it's just common sense to NOT let your child walk down the corridor alone, especially in the USA. I've seen ridiculous amounts of reports of, pure chance, child abduction stories in America. As far as I am concerned, it's better to be safe than sorry!

I work closely with young people with anxiety disorders. They too have an irrational attitude to risk. Some won’t go outside on their own, speak to shop / hotel staff or go anywhere without someone (often a parent) with them. I read this thread and I understand why.

Tell Cleanfreak to do it himself my answer is NO! 😆

I'm American, have stayed in Marriotts all over the world. This question astounded me. This is a safe, respectable hotel, she walks down the hallway to the elevator/lift and sticks trash in the bin. Back in 2 minutes.
Are hotels in the UK so dangerous you can't walk down the hall? Do strange men grab girls like this there? This is a serious question. I don't know anyone here who would ask this, so is there something I don't know about safety in UK hotels that drove this question?
I'm not sure where you are in the US--some cities here (San Francisco, LA, New York) are dangerous now, and many of us avoid them. We avoid the city, though, not a hotel hallway.

I wouldn't take a 12 year old girl or boy anywhere near San Francisco for example. But I'd let them walk down a hallway in a Marriott.

No, I would be the same. Not just in a different country, but in the UK too. We are living in an unsafe world, esp for young teenagers. Better to be safe than sorry.

DH was busy sorting out the other child, read OP's posts

Safety or not, I think I'd have told DH to get off his lazy backside and do it himself lol

Why can't you all just take it out the next time you leave the room or wait for the staff to do their daily cleaning to get it? Or just walk together if you need to get it out of the room right away. I would probably be comfortable standing in the hallway to watch mine throw it away at that age. I mean, if someone did try and snatch her, they aren't going anywhere so if you called out, they would stop.
Also, they will just come and get the trash for you, just tip.