It's an annoying children in hotel one

[zeezeek]

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.

I'm assuming that both Castle and Donald would be fine with random. Okay children interrupting their work places?

OP YANBU I would be expecting the hotel to make amends.

Well yeah even though I wasn't there, I'd bet my life savings (and all my Morrisons Match and More points) on the fact no-one actually used the phrase entitled child haters

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.

It's more how quiet can their parents make them be, surely? A hotel isn't a playground and children should not be running about inside it.

Posters been on here a few years.

YABU for going on about your IMPORTANT BUSINESS MEETINGS though

What a dickish comment. It's relevant because it provides context. Do you have some kind of chip on your shoulder about business meetings?

^^ "random.Okay children"

"Random, noisy children" obviously

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

Don't be so ridiculous and arrogant.

I love this thread.

Entitled child-haters? I've never heard those words in real life!

I'd love to be in a position to find 'fairly important meetings' on Dec 28 to be unbelievable, but I've just arrived home from a day at the office which included attending a meeting.

Tbf, no-one called me an 'entitled child-hater'

We are also away in a hotel as a family for a few nights. It's an important relaxing break for us but we aren't the only people in the world. There have been 2 weddings , and yes there is business conference going on - I believe it's connected to key construction works going going on in the area and yes it has to happen now as that's whats required at this time of the year. These events are just as important as my family time and I am responsible for my kids behaviour throughout as I usually am - why the hell shouldn't I be?!

daisyfrumps

Ooh - are you a witch at conference zeezeek ? Did you turn the children into mice?!

I love the fact that the issue of the parents failing to raise their children properly has been superseded by the odd idea that important meetings happening at this time of year are a very suspect thing indeed.

Children boisterous in restaurants is fine but wandering around, unsupervised in areas where there is no particular safety-of-children-briefing is not. Who knows who is wandering about a conference centre. Who lets their kids interrupt other people doing their job.

I think those of us who work should arrange a conference at Castleheights home and become drunk and disorderly where it is unexpected and see how they like it.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought of hundreds of women with wigs and purple eyes!! 🐁

Wondering why "Witches" wasn't on the telly this Christmas, or have I missed it?

The children are arseholes, the parents are arseholes. The management need to sort it out.
Love that people think that the world stops over Christmas. I wish it did.

Donald

I think the op from the parents would continue.

"We were just getting pissed having a few drinks at the bar. And paying fuck all attention to the kids the kids were having fun...

Just giving a different perspective.

I am actually amazed that people think so many others don't work over this 2 week period, many many industries are 24/7 and certainly my DH has been in work all week including both mon and tues bank holidays and has had meetings in offer offices, telephone conferences and visitors to his office.

His actual job is office based, but because it's related to food industry with 365 days of the year working, all his factories are working, industry does not stop for Christmas.

AuntieMay absolutely. DH was lucky this year and got Christmas Day off but has been in all week including Boxing Day, and they've had meetings. In his industry they are not allowed to book holiday between 15th Dec and 15th Jan because it's their busiest time. He has had meetings aplenty, and they've been as important as any other at other times of the year. There's no skeleton staff situation - indeed there is a full cohort.

So maybe there you have it, OP. The children have parents who live in this lovely bubble some people on here do where they think everyone gets Christmas off and is relaxing at the bar and therefore the kids can do what they like.

I hope management have found some balls and sorted this out for you.

"Entitled child haters"

I did lol when I read that ^. What a coincidence they used those exact words.

I don't think I suggested that the world shut down for two weeks, I was curious as to what type of business organised an external conference in the days between Christmas and New Year. My experience in a few different industries has been either that there is a slow down as people choose to take annual leave, or that it's very busy so people don't take time to have an external conference. My DH has also been working right through except the weekend. I was working yesterday and I've had no work related emails since last Thursday unless you count Out of Office responses.

I am not excusing the parents behaviour at all here, they were clearly out of order. Giving the benefit of doubt to them, they may have initially thought the conference area was unlikely to be being used and selected it as a good area to allow the children to let off steam if the weather was poor as it was away from other guests, however upon finding it was being used they should have moved away.

The OP also is a long standing poster so have no reason to doubt her version of events.