Noisy holiday neighbours at night vs my noisy early riser children

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My children are 6, 8 and 10. They go to bed at around 7.30ish most school nights or 8-8.30 on weekends and holidays. However, this holiday they have been so active with hours of swimming that they are in bed at 7. They are shattered.

However, they are naturally early risers. They are up any time from 6am.

Our villa circles the pool with 7 other villas. These other holiday guests are all adults and up late drinking etc. about 11pm. They are loud, but I've not complained.

The hotel has complained that our children are too loud walking to the restaurant in the morning for breakfast, which starts at 8am.

I'm really pissed off. It's okay to be loud and disturb a family's sleep at night. But not wake a bunch of 30 something's at 8 when breakfast is served.

I was in Cornwall too OP!

I have to say though, if they are talking loudly enough to wake up people, it must be loud. I'd be very sympathetic to a crying baby or tantrumming preschooler, but I honestly don't understand why the DCs can't be quiet.

I was talking to DH yesterday about how loud people were. We were in Pizza Express and chatting - no one could have heard us without stopping right near our table and we weren't whispering. Yet other people have very, erm, "ringing" voices.

I think moderating your tone is a good idea, at times. Talking loudly enough to disturb others is never on - regardless of your age. It's just anti social and annoying.

Oh don't be silly! You expect everyone on holiday to be quiet from 7 pm when your kids go to bed.And if they are as tired as you say, I surprised they are disturbed by people drinking.

A Villa in cornwall? Are you sure it isn't a chalet?

sunshine read the OP's OP, she doesn't expect everyone to be quiet from 7.00.p.m., it is her children who've been complained about when up and about at a time when the hotel is, er, open for business.

I believe the Op's beef should be with the hotel. IMO they were out of order letting her know about the complaints. The hotel offers breakfast from 8am therefore it's not unnatural that people will talk on their way there. It's 8AM for goodness sake not the crack of dawn.

I'd be tempted to write an email of complaint to the manager. Explain that the complex is obviously not interested in having families to stay or else they wouldn't complain about people making their way to breakfast when it is opened. Say that you'll be putting a review on trip advisor about it and staying elsewhere in future.

Exactly rookie - if the hotel is offering breakfast from 8am then there will be some noise from that time onwards as people make their way to breakfast.

Well, that's her prerogative, if she wants them to be quieter at night - I suspect that the OP is not looking for an argument, but simply wants to enjoy her holiday with the minimum of disruption - which is what most people do on holiday. The other holiday makers are entitled to be up drinking later in the evening and making a certain and appropriate level of noise, just as she is entitled to be up at 8am given that this is when breakfast is served and making a certain and appropriate level of noise.

What Laurie said :o If the hotel restaurant is open, it is a legitimate time to be up and about. It works both ways - you have not complained about timings that don't suit you but are suited to the context, neither should they. YANBU.

YANBU. They are not in an adults-only resort.

Whereabouts in Cornwall? I'm a local. Come round for a if you like - any time after 8 am

I repeat. It's Cornwall. They may well be walking to breakfast with umbrellas shrieking about the rain. And they won't be sat outside at 11pm.

The moral of the story is....rent a cottage instead.

The hotel have failed to manage expectations. When the people complained they should have said we clearly advertise that we serve breakfast from 8am and so it should be expected that there will be people walking about and talking at this time.

I do think you are getting off lightly with people only being noisy until 11pm though.

If you had been conversing in normal voices , it wouldn't have woken hung over sleeping adults