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

She's in an English speaking country in the Marriot.

You quoted the OP and still managed to think the bins were ON ANOTHER FLOOR?

Also, as scary as that is, you were followed. Its not the same as walking along a corridor from room to bin and back.

If you think someone is following you do NOT go to your room. Double back around to the reception where people are and hang around until you can get hotel staff help (someone would be along soon)

Different attitudes to women , different levels of law following, different attitudes of law enforcement for various crimes. Different languages spoke so a lessened ability to ask for help , or read warning or instructional signs etc

I had to reread this. My 11 year old took public transport across London with no issue. Foreign countries aren’t that scary.

And they'll just swoop in and reverse any damage?

Over the last couple of years, in many US cities, hotels, even the upscale ones, are being used as extra housing for some of the homeless population. A lot of the people placed in the hotels are active drug users or people refusing mental health treatment.

Just a couple of weeks ago, my DH and I were traveling for business. We booked a room at an upscale hotel online. Upon arrival, we found that this hotel was one of the ones being used for housing. We had to pass people doing drugs on our way to our room. We both felt unsafe and barely got any rest. It was too late that night to go somewhere else, but we canceled the rest of our stay and relocated to another hotel.

Unfortunately, at least in the US, you can’t rely on a hotel company’s good name anymore. We just returned from another business trip to the same city and did a lot more research when booking our rooms.

This one instance of the OP not allowing her DD to walk down the hallway won’t harm her DD. Based on what the OP has said, her DD has a lot of independence at home. This seems a one off situation. If there isn’t a history of anxiety or fearfulness, then trusting her gut was best.

I was staying in Bristol and participating in an exhibition in the town centre. I was followed from my hotel reception to my room late at night by a man. There was no one manning the desk, but the reception area was full of people who just seemed to be congregating there. Anyone could walk in.

I sort of sensed someone was going to do it, so ran I from the lift when it arrived at my floor to around the corner, then pegged it to my room .a few moments later a knock on my door. You've dropped your key card, he said.
So how did I get in to my room then? Leave it at the desk please?
He said oh, then left. I was pretty terrified. Normally after an exhibition I'd have had a few drinks and possibly would have opened the door, but was sober as a judge this time luckily

I can't believe people would let their young daughter wander through a hotel alone to the bins which will obviously be at the rear of the hotel or in an alley way.

It's a Marriott. If she got grabbed you'd just ring the front desk. The chances of being grabbed in a Marriott I'd put at 0.01% at most.

Also, it's a Marriott. Just leave your full bin outside the door or ring Housekeeping and ask them to collect it.

You are both VVU.

Surely the hotel has CCTV? People are more likely to be grabbed on the street than in the corridor of a hotel. It would be very easy to identify the culprit if there is CCTV, which I would assume there is.

Woah! I don’t think this is normal in the slightest.

Way OTT. Do you drive her around in a car (far higher risk)?

I know how you feel about this and you’re in the states so it’s kinda scary TBH but she’s probably okay.
Our 5 year old year child years ago ran into a lift in the states and the doors shut and the lift went up with our 5 year old in it and I really panicked. Thankfully the lift came back down and he was still in it but it was the hardest few minutes of my life. I also lost my son in a shop (he was hiding) and I told the shop people (in the states) he was lost. They immediately locked the doors and shut the place down and announced he was missing. They work immediately to get your child back. They are actually very helpful and so it’s not as bad as the reputation the states has.
I think 12 is a lot older and it’s down the hallway so they are probably okay however it you’re not okay then don’t allow it till you’re ready. Nothing like choosing to do something you’re not happy with because others say it’s okay only for something to go wrong. Do what makes you comfortable and let your husband support you in that. As he should.

I was going to reply but this sums it up perfectly!

If you're not totally comfortable with it, that's fine.... personally in a place I don't know well or at all I'd err on being safe. If people looked at crimes committed in hotels maybe more people wouldn't be as critical of you...Def not OTT.

What's being in a foreign country got to do with it?

Wtf

I feel like I've slipped into an alternate dimension reading this thread.

What you are doing is instilling fear into your daughter.
You watch too many American cop films.

I feel uneasy walking along hotel corridors on my own. I am pretty confident, travel a lot on my own. But there is something about hotels - I personally wouldn't allow it. I think my girls would be scared. It's unlikely that something would happen, but no point testing it! And i do think it can be unsettling.

So, why isn’t husband doing it? I thought getting rid of rubbish is the man’s job?

I bet there's no US community that bans children under 14 to walk along a hotel corridor alone!

Again, quote where I say all men are lazy.

No, no
The gun will incite all the trigger happy Americans ready for an argument and a gunfight to open fire!

Better to carry a spear

Hazmat and breathing equipment are fine for Biohazards and fire, but will provide little or no protection against any hungry lions that may be roaming the hotel corridors. It would be essential that she took with her a fully loaded Heckler and Koch.

I don't think I've ever stayed in a hotel where I have had to take the rubbish somewhere! Surely when the rooms are serviced it's done then. When we were at the end of a 6 week road trip we had so much crap out of the car that we did clear that ourselves but otherwise, no.

Obviously you just don't go in the bathroom 🙄