It's an annoying children in hotel one

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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.

it doesnt matter if its xmas easter or your birthday they were disturbing business meetings and nothing was done about it

complain higher up its just not on

Ahh Richard I was just trying to see both perspectives. Why is my side not good and the OP side is? Is aibu not about debate?

Sorry for the double post.

So that makes it okay then to run and out of rooms because the parents didn't see their darlings doing it (should be watching them then). Or the parents didn't know the rooms were being used..
How about taking their darlings to a park or a field? Somewhere more appropriate for them to run around?
Nothing nearby well just adds to the daftness of parents who don't research the
Vicinity to see what's there.

There's a great place for children to be excitable and run around where they don't disturb other paying guests, it's called "outside" or "the park" etc. there isn't however a bar there so lazy parents would rather leave them to run up and down the corridor in what they consider to be a quiet area of the hotel. However, it's quiet area for a reason, the reason being that people are working. However, I'm also interested in what type of business meetings you are having and with whom on the inbetween days of Christmas and New Year though? I've been working for 33 years and never had so much as an informal meet up in the office at this time of year never mind a conference. I'm also surprised at a hotel taking such bookings when they are likely to be up to their eyes in other work.

When you say that the management tried their best to control them, what exactly did the management do? Did you tell them that you wanted a refund because their other guests were rendering the facilities that you had booked unusable? It sounds incredible that a couple of children have been allowed to derail a conference - surely hotel staff should be on top of the situation.

I am also wondering about the kind of high level meeting that would take place between Xmas and New Year.

No-one should be disturbing other guests to that extent, whether they're corporate guests or not.

All it takes is a little thought for others.

YANBU to be annoyed at the children. YABU for going on about your IMPORTANT BUSINESS MEETINGS though

But I don't get why some people are surprised at corporate events/meetings taking place between Christmas and new year?

Today is a normal working day and the next bank holiday isn't until new years day

Not everyone gets 2 weeks off for Christmas.

I agree that not everyone gets two weeks off, however a lot of people do and that makes it awkward to organise things as key people are missing. There is usually a lot of end of year stuff that needs done by those working such as end of year returns etc. Personally I find it impossible to achieve very much because of lack of availability of people so tend to plan to catch up on records or write up reports etc.

Plus maybe it's not in the UK.
Few years ago friend spent just over 2 weeks somewhere nice on business. Took the wife and children. Had Christmas and new year over there. He worked about 5 days in between Christmas and after new
Years.
The world doesn't stop just because the educational system does

My experience is the same as Wanker's. Even if there isn't an actual Xmas shut-down (common in finance and law) then it's skeleton staff only, fewer people are available and meeting etc don't happen, much less conferences.

haveacupoftea - amazing what some people can take issue with. The OP called it a 'fairly important business meeting' and later a 'serious meeting'- really struggling to see the issue with that and it's relevant to the thread. Maybe try not to be so precious?

Sounds awful.

If "key people" have a conference booked, they're hardly going to take two weeks' holiday are they? It's not rocket science.

For a lot of business with possibly a December end of year closing it's a very key week.

In Insurance underwriting for example.

But as is the norm, it's impossible to walk in someone else's shoes.

And why can't the meeting be very important? It could involve safety, huge sums of investment, medical training...who is anyone to judge?

Quite a few business sectors keep going between Chrismas and New Year -- the service industry for one (hotels, restaurants, leisure) while other sectors might well want to use an otherwise 'dead' time of year to plan for the next few months.
So, even if, for example, a factory closed down, management might get together with consultants to draw up strategies for the coming year.
I worked in a 24/365 sector and it was certainly not unheard of for meetings to be scheduled to take place in holiday periods.

It's not two weeks' holiday - it's three days.

This thread is so very Mumsnet!

The most important issue is how the corporate meeting managed to take place and the OP is somehow BU for describing said meeting as important?!?!

Love it!

Worra

Im unsure what to think. Yes I get its annoying, but children are noisy little blighters aren't they, and It is after all a hotel. Not Alcatraz.

How quiet can the management make them be.

I think it's the combination of Important Meetings (you must know that they are really important ... did I tell you they're important) during a time of year that many people aren't available, together with the phrase "entitled child haters" that has got people talking.

What wanker said.

"entitled child haters"

Lol.

Come on, a bit of fucking discernment people!

I'm trying to work out the layout of this hotel as well. First we are told that the meetings are in a part of the hotel that was separate to the rest of it, and then that the parents are near the meetings in the bar and shouting.

There are "very important business meetings" going on on the 27th Dec? Unless you're in a ski resort and it's an excuse for a piss up, no there aren't. And I'm not in the UK and it's the same end of year stuff everywhere.