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zeezeek · 28/12/2016 23:23

Am at a series of fairly important meetings which are being held in a hotel. It's got a reputation as being a place where conferences are held and business people stay, rather than a holiday type of that makes sense? Anyway, we are in a suite of meeting rooms that are kind of on one side of the hotel, so not anywhere where people not involved in the meetings are likely to be.

However, all day today - from the start at 10am and to the finish at 5 pm we have been disturbed and interrupted by what seems like a family/friend group of children all about 6-7 years old. They have tried to get into the room, actually did on a couple of times before being booted out and we were then subject to various shouting from the parents, called entitled child haters, that sort of thing.

When they weren't physically interrupting the meeting they were running around the corridor outside and shouting an screaming at each other, whilst their parents sat in the bar and shouted at anyone who dared complain. The hotel management have done their best to control them and have warned them that they will be asked to leave if it happens tomorrow.

Couldn't even escape the little brats this evening as they were dining in the same room, at the same time as us and spent the entire time running around the restaurant.

I know children can be lively and rowdy, but ffs it's a hotel, not their home and surely it's not unreasonable to expect them to fucking behave and not interrupt people trying to have a serious meeting? We didn't manage to get through half of what we wanted today because of this.

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MiladyThesaurus · 31/12/2016 10:22

I'm actually really pissed off at the attitude that 'we've paid good money so we can do what we like. Indeed, it costs me more to take my whole family than it costs a couple (boo hoo) so everyone else should just have to put up with me and my kids doing exactly what we like'.

People don't actually dislike children; they dislike parents who think like this and the consequences of it. All reasonable people (whether they are parents or not) dislike parents like this.

zeezeek · 31/12/2016 10:34

Oh dear. Plug are you one of the parents of the kids who disturbed us?

I very much doubt they paid as much as we did (or not, as the case may be) and they certainly didn't pay as much as this hotel will now lose from that institution's business.

It's not a hotel suitable for children. It is designed for conference delegates and travelling business people. There are no facilities for children and it's in the middle of a city, near a university and miles from anywhere you'd take children to - even the local park is a good half hr away. So if you choose to stay there with children then you need to parent them. Actually you need to parent your children anyway as it's kinda part of the deal of being a parent.

Our host is still furious and emailed me this morning to ask for my version of events - and everyone else's. they will take everything to a meeting that they are going to demand with the regional manager of the chain next week.

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NewNNfor2017 · 31/12/2016 10:35

If these were my kids I would let them go anywhere as we have paid for the privilege

Hopefully, this quells any doubts PP may have had that parents described in the OP actually exist. They really do - and are unashamedly unapologetic Grin

Bobochic · 31/12/2016 10:39

The idea that, because one has paid to spend time in a hotel, one no longer has to abide by any rules of behaviour or common courtesy, is completely misguided.

DownAmongtheElves · 31/12/2016 10:44

If these were my kids I would let them go anywhere as we have paid for the privilege

Plug are you one of the parents?

And - as people have pointed out - the parents weren't the only ones paying for he "privilege" - it was unruly badly-parented children disturbing other guests who are working on significant matters - people who have also paid for the privilege - of a meeting room, undisturbed, quiet. And a stay in an hotel with the presumption of "quiet enjoyment" not being called cunts in public by ill-mannered unruly parents.

It's attitudes like yours, Plug which cause others to anticipate trouble when there are children in public places such as hotels & restaurants. Attitudes like yours which make it difficult for well-mannered parents of delightfully behaved children.

Megatherium · 31/12/2016 11:12

Plug, self-evidently when you go to a hotel that doesn't entitle you or your family to go anywhere and everywhere within the hotel. You presumably wouldn't expect your children to be able to run into other guests' bedrooms even if the door had been left open, or the hotel staff's offices? Why would it be any different in relation to a meeting room that someone has booked?

RosaRosaRose · 31/12/2016 11:24

zeezeek please come back with an update on the meeting with the hotel's regional manager! Happy New Year! (Overly invested in the thread Xmas Grin)

zeezeek · 31/12/2016 12:10

I would like to be at the meeting as my colleague is, shall we say, forceful and I don't imagine the regional manager will find the meeting comfortable! Unfortunately the damage is done and no one has any faith in the hotel whatever the outcome.

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riceuten · 31/12/2016 14:43

Bloody hell children .... in a hotel.... enjoying themselves at Christmas! Ffs whatever next

Entitled parents in being unable to control their vile offspring why they responsibly get pissed in the bar shocka.

riceuten · 31/12/2016 14:45

The idea that, because one has paid to spend time in a hotel, one no longer has to abide by any rules of behaviour or common courtesy, is completely misguided

Albeit one that ones sees almost everywhere, these days, not just hotels. Trains, cinemas, planes, restaurants usually on a bloody scooter and screeching at the top of their voice.

toptoe · 31/12/2016 15:01

The minute a guest calls another guest a 'fucking cunt' they should be asked to leave. The hotel will have a policy about aggressive/abusive guests. I think the manager was afraid of the confrontation with these people. Not an excuse but that's my instinct. They failed you, the other guests and will be facing the fact they've lost a lot of business. Conference stuff is hotel bread and butter.

ArcheryAnnie · 31/12/2016 21:17

If these were my kids I would let them go anywhere as we have paid for the privilege

Plug I presume you pay for your own flat/house? Do you let your kids run amok in your neighbour's houses and businesses, and in the street, because you have "paid for the privilege", even though you have only paid for your own home? And do you call your neighbours "cunt" if they object to your kids running amok?

You sound exactly like one of the problem parents this thread is about.

dawnmist · 31/12/2016 21:55

Plugs probably one of the twatty mums.

supermoon100 · 31/12/2016 23:19

It's a bit sad to be a parent having a business meeting between Christmas and new year and complaining about children. It has a touch of the scrooge about it.

MiladyThesaurus · 31/12/2016 23:33

She's not complaining about children. She's complaining about crap parents and spineless, ineffectual hotel management.

It's quite a big difference.

boo2410 · 01/01/2017 00:08

Safe journey zeezeek, hope by now you're back home safely with your family. Just RTFT, bloody amazing. Wish I could see the hotel's faces when they lose all that business. Hope you didn't pay for this trip either. I know I wouldn't.

Willow2016 · 01/01/2017 01:02

supermoon
so if you were in a hotel and some useless parents decided that their kids could run in and out of your room whenever they wanted it would be ok?
If they could run around while you are eating being noisy and disruptive to you and your family?
If their parents called you a 'fucking cunt' at breakfast would you smile sweetly and say "Oh thanks, good morning to you to. what lovely children you have"?

Get a grip ffs shit parenting isnt remotely the same as having to work at Xmas.

DailyFail1 · 01/01/2017 02:10

Plug- businesses will usually pay a hotel a couple of grand for a few hours of conferences at a time. Trust me when I say that no hotel will favour kids running amok in this situation. The Hilton we use in London has a business floor and the entire floor (plus special dining area) is out of bounds to private customers.

DownAmongtheElves · 01/01/2017 09:02

I love hotels with Business floors. No children in the corridors, no late noisy guests, just quiet.

1horatio · 01/01/2017 10:20

down

I agree. That is extremely convenient...

Megatherium · 01/01/2017 10:24

It's a bit sad to be a parent having a business meeting between Christmas and new year and complaining about children. It has a touch of the scrooge about it.

Seriously? If you're a parent who has to leave your children for a business meeting at this time of year, you're supposed to be delighted when that meeting gets longer and more difficult because someone else's children keep interrupting or are running up and down the corridor outside shouting?

zeezeek · 01/01/2017 10:46

If I didn't have children would I have been allowed to complain then?!!

Yes thanks. Back in Sweden now until we all return to the UK on Wednesday the kids are missing the firs 2 days of term despite what I've said in the past about term time holidays

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FrancisCrawford · 01/01/2017 10:57

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PaulDacresConscience · 01/01/2017 11:08

Laughing at the prospect of not having meetings between Christmas and NY. Yes people are on annual leave but lots of things run to a calendar year deadline and it's very common for strategy and future planning to be concluded in December. We are in the final throes of agreeing the budget for 2017-18 which has necessitated several last minute meetings. If you are a senior manager then attendance is non-negotiable - to the point where people have dialled in from abroad, whilst on holiday. It just comes with the territory.

My organisation has a preferred hotel which is used for client visits, staff visits (for those remotely based), conferences etc. They earn a fortune from us over the course of the year. It is incredibly short sighted of the hotel not to acknowledge the value of your business, when all you were asking for was for the hotel to step in and deal with things in a reasonable manner. Conferencing costs are what keep the hotel going throughout the lean months.

Butteredpars1ps · 01/01/2017 11:19

Amusing thread.

The country, and all countries in the world shut down for two weeks over the Christmas holidays, and no real or important work is done by anyone.

The price of hotel B&B allows children to run around anywhere in a hotel, including the business suite.

On what planet?

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