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Noisy hotel sex. Why?

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Tiredthismorning · Today 12:50

Why do people have such noisy sex in hotels? I have just got home from a wedding yesterday, after which I stayed in a hotel. The couple in the next room had vocal sex at 2am and again at 8am. Proper shrieks and moans and grunts and words that I could hear through the wall from both of them, for a good half an hour both times.

Have your fun by all means. But why make so much noise?? I know hotel rooms are private but hotels aren't, especially not in the middle of the night.

AIBU to think it's no less selfish (and quite a bit more unreasonable) than keeping other guests up with music or any other noise. It's not the first time I've been kept awake like this.

OP posts:
Dorothyperky · Today 12:51

They are perhaps having a night off from the kids.

Tiredthismorning · Today 12:53

Dorothyperky · Today 12:51

They are perhaps having a night off from the kids.

Maybe other people in the hotel are too! I wouldn't play music really loudly in a hotel room at night so why would anyone scream the house down during sex? By all means have sex, just do it quietly!

OP posts:
Notanotherrestructure · Today 12:57

You should have complained at reception the first time as, at the least, you might have had a case for a room change or refund.

bumblingbovine49 · Today 12:57

Mostly because some of us cant have noisy sex at home and hotels are places we don't realky care who hears us and noisy sex is fun, A different fun than the quiet type and nice for a change. You did ask. Possibly it is a bit selfish and so what?

Hotels can be noisy for all sorts of reasons l. I never stay in a hotel without good quality ear plugs or noise cancelling headphones

Dorothyperky · Today 12:57

You know that people don't really care these days OP?
I know a quite a few people who go away to get some time with their partner.

I'm old so I'm less noisy these days but I have relatives who are not!

If just clap at the end tbh.

LoveWine123 · Today 13:00

Why have noisy sex in a hotel room? Where else would have it? At home with the kids?

topcat2014 · Today 13:02

Isn't that kind of the point of hotels? Freed from looking at the clothes pile and the dog bowls.

Yogafiend · Today 13:03

I have to agree with pp. It’s either because they have never had to be quiet or because they are having a night without the kids! Come on OP. Have you never had sex that was noisy?

Branleuse · Today 13:05

Because they can't get pissed and have proper noisy sessions at home??

HoppityBun · Today 13:06

Half an hour? Blimey!

QueenMummyTheFirst · Today 13:08

I do agree with OP - it's pretty antisocial. I would be annoyed at being woken up to this.

I would also assume that they get off on being heard by other guests, and be annoyed at being dragged into their voyeur kink.

user1476613140 · Today 13:09

Good on them. I can only be noisy at home during a school day as we cannot get to a hotel room. There's nothing wrong with that. At least they are having a good time!

gerispringer · Today 13:09

i don’t really understand why people have to be so noisy, surely some intimate whispering could be just as nice, if not nicer. It’s a tad selfish to think other people want to hear your grunts and groans, which you do have a choice to make. I don’t want to hear people snoring or going to the toilet either, but you could argue that is less of a choice.

Seddu · Today 13:09

Sometimes it's because they want people to hear them. Some people like to be a bit exhibitionistic, and a hotel is a perfect opportunity to do it with fewer consequences (a level of anonymity/plausible deniability, plus they probably never have to see their "audience" again).

I'm not saying it's OK, mind you.

Blackbookofsmiles1 · Today 13:13

Because noisy sex is best when in a hotel if you have kids at home

GCAcademic · Today 13:15

Blackbookofsmiles1 · Today 13:13

Because noisy sex is best when in a hotel if you have kids at home

So you don't mind other people's kids hearing it?

MintTwirl · Today 13:18

Maybe they think the soundproofing is better than it is?

Shatteredallthetimelately · Today 13:26

LoveWine123 · Today 13:00

Why have noisy sex in a hotel room? Where else would have it? At home with the kids?

Why not?
How do you know kids aren't sharing a room with their parents next door to you.

If you're not prepared to inflict it on your own kids in your own home why would you expect another person's kids to have to listen to you banging away.

seventeenofsumday · Today 13:26

I mean no one has to be noisy during sex, a lot of it is purely performative, I cringe when people scream the place down, and then say they can't help it Hmm like really? It's completely uncontrollable and involuntary?? I dont mean the odd noises or quiet noise but the ones who scream and shout so loud you can hear from miles away its clearly a choice to be that noisy 🤣 I get that a hotel people maybe shouldn't need to avoid being noisy but I think out of basic respect of others in the nearby rooms its reasonable to expect a bit of noise control Grin

localnotail · Today 13:28

You sound like you are envious ))

Why people have noisy sex in hotels - away from the kids and other stuff, some drinks, no worries about the neighbours as they will never see these people again, and simply couples having fun?

OccasionalHope · Today 13:32

Perhaps they don't realise how loud they are, or think the walls are thicker than they are.

FrankieNeverRelax · Today 13:32

GCAcademic · Today 13:15

So you don't mind other people's kids hearing it?

That’s a them problem I’m afraid. Being a kid and hearing your own parents have sex is much worse than hearing strangers lol!

Ottercave · Today 13:34

We stay in a lot of hotels and are quiet during sex. The beds, on the other hand, can make that much noise that the whole hotel could probably tell what we were doing. ☺️

TheLastSilverSaint · Today 13:38

GCAcademic · Today 13:15

So you don't mind other people's kids hearing it?

To be honest, I couldn’t give a shit. I’m really not going to fuck in silence at all times, just on the vague off-chance that one of the hotel rooms near by might contain a random child. Adults are allowed to do adult things in hotel rooms.

Imdunfer · Today 13:40

I stayed in a hotel once and the headboard banging the wall in the room above woke me up. I was just drifting back to sleep when they started again. When we were checking out the next morning, they checked out from room 223 and we were in room 123. It was as much as I could do not to tap them on the shoulder and ask if they'd had fun.

If they'd had any concern for other people, all they needed to do was lie across the bed instead of along it. They can't not have known, it was like someone hammering on the door at 2 in the morning.

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