to think 7am is too early to wake everyone in the hotel

[Evenstar]

I had to stay in a hotel last night as I have driven my 19 year old daughter almost 200 miles to start a new job on Monday. At 7am this morning someone allowed their children, to run the entire length of the hotel corridor shouting "Grandpa" and finally knocking loudly on a door. AIBU to think they were being unreasonable!!

No I would be hacked off (and I have a lively 3 year old but don't presume it's a good idea at any idea for her to run about or knock on doors in a hotel at any time).

YANBU - I have this already at home. To have it where I have paid for a good nights sleep would be quite annoying!

were the parents rapidly following behind her going 'shhhh shhhh! be quiet!' and actually making more noise then the child?

No they made no attempt to keep the noise down at all, and from the sound of it these children were not very small probably over 5. I am glad I am not being unreasonable, although I work with little ones I don't have to live with them now as my youngest is 14! I was a bit surprised as I would have made sure mine were very quiet at any time in a hotel, I do understand that it isn't easy.

We had friends to stay recently. Their DS woke at 5.30am and I could hear him running about upstairs and them saying shhh. Could they not have taken him downstairs??!!?!?

YANBU.

YANBU. I have clear memories of DD being around 2 and waking at 3.30 or some such ridicilously early hour while we were staying at a friends house.
DH took her downstairs and watched Noddy for four hours until their son woke up.

Lol rips- I had similar session til 4am when dd was a out 18 months with jet lag (baby Einstein on loop when you are tired can do things odd to your mind).

Evenstar agree it's difficult boring and stressful keeping kids quiet when in places like this (but no need not to try).

I'm the only one thinking YAB a bit U. Maybe said child was screaming in their room so a few minutes of running followed by quiet was the lesser of the two. Its this reason I try to avoid hotels with my lo's and go for apartments wherever possible...if the kids wake early you're a bit limited in one room as to what you can do to entertain them.

YANBU. This happened to DH and me on our very last pre-baby weekend away. I was pregnant and sleeping badly anyway and the 5.30am wakeup call from Bathsheba and Tarquin expressing themselves in the corridor outside our room made me doubt whether having children was really a good idea after all... Little shouty bastards.

Obviously if you have a crying BABY / kid with SN there's not much you can do, but children who are old enough to threaten reason with should be MADE to behave reasonably in public... Especially where other people's sleep is concerned...

Backtobedlam You can't use the corridors as a place to entertain them instead.
OP is NBU.

Completely agree - Andrew. If they are going stir crazy bundle them up in coat and take them for a walk outside and out of earshot.

we staye din hotel recentley and becuase dc were awake we neded up downstairs in the lobby area so did not disturb anyone

YANBU, however it might not be that easy to keep them quiet. I know with my 2.6 year old, asking her to keep quiet just means she repeats the request back at me, loudly. And a little voice saying, "Be quiet, DD2 sleeping" inevitably wakes up the baby.

I wasn't suggesting using the corridors to entertain them. It sounded from op like they were running past on the way to gp's room rather than playing in the corridor.

Backtobedlam, agree with you about apartments, we discovered these in february in Glasgow and if staying more than one night will be our choice from now on, same price and sooo much better

Maybe it is the grandpa's 70th birthday and they were all really excited to see him.

BacktoBedlam What matters is the effect, not the intention. Gigondas is dead right. In a hotel early in the morning you have to consider other guests.

I find the pissed up people coming in at 4am much more annoying personally!

But I do think the parents should be making some effort to keep them quiet

We usually end up at a hotel that's competing in the 'door slamming olympics' very early in the morning.

Sirzy Agree entirely. String 'em all up! :o

I wouldn't mind tbh. I'd want to be up to get ready for breakfast. For me, staying in a hotel = full english that someone else has cooked with no washing up. I wouldn't want to miss that.

that's true sirzy. Children at 7am wouldn't bother me,; it's adults like you say, making noise at night time.

YANBU.

Last weekend we stayed in a hotel and the people in the next room plus their very small squeaky children were singing loudly at 10.15pm . Not to mention laughing, talking really loudly. But it was the singing that really got me.

YANBU.

I suggest in circumstances like this you open your door in your nightclothes, rubbing your eyes, shouting "WHAT THE FUCK" and looking really damned grumpy. The parents are likely to take their little darlings away from the angry scary sweary woman sharpish.

YANBU.
I agree that the pissed 'adults' make more noise between 2-4am which is even worse.