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.

This thread is so very Mumsnet!

Not really - I don't think anyone's suggested all the rampaging children have SN yet??

You can have a new experience with your dc without making it unpleasant for everyone else.

All quiet so far. It would appear they have gone out for the day - unfortunately not checked out though, so could be back anytime.

The manager is going to give a discount on the rooms and stuff and free dinner tonight (which is a waste of time as we are going out in order to talk about work over dinner in peace - no under 16s allowed in restaurant and we have a table booked that's out of the way of the rest).

Does seem that they are more concerned with pissing off a bunch of twats than a bunch of academics.

Well I'm glad to see this thread finally veered away from "a woman with a job at Christmas? It must be panto lolololol."

But sorry the OP's situation hasn't resolved. The parents sound awful.

Yes it was rather bizarre to have that picked up on! I'm not a troll, have been in here years, but do go,through phases of posting then not posting, so guess I'm not that well known.

Well. They are back and the manager says he's spoken to them and threatened them with being thrown out if the behaviours continued. Didn't make much difference this afternoon as they were up to the same thing again. In the end we just decamped from the meeting room and finished off as much work as we could do in my room - which wasn't good and 10 people in one room made it inconvenient and cramped. The one organising the meeting and rooms is going to refuse to pay, has contacted their head office and complained and we've demanded that either they are removed tomorrow morning after breakfast or their (very large, wealthy and prestigious) institution will never use them again.

Off to dinner now. It'll be a relief to get out of this hotel.

I do hope you'll post a suitable review on Trip Advisor ...

People who are amazed that meetings occur in the week between Christmas and new year amaze me. I have been in a important meeting today with all managers for the company. It's a very busy time of year for us, we have a complete holiday blackout for December other than the bank holidays so no one is off on their jollies we all work and therefore it's the same as any other week, in fact you are guaranteed to get everyone into a meeting in December whereas the rest of the year it can be hit and miss.

I book and arrange meetings as part of my role and if I'd booked this meeting which is being interrupted repeatedly with very little being done about it, I too would be refusing to settle the invoice.

It wouldn't matter if it was a family hotel. I tell my DC to be quiet in the corridors in the hotel at Disneyland because other people may be sleeping or resting. It's about basic manners, doesn't matter if they're excited, it's our holiday, it was expensive. They can manage to be excited relatively quietly until we're away from people's bedrooms.

All the disbelievers had to do was rather than write many posts proclaiming its bullshit, taken 20 seconds to google. It's not like some of these are open to professionals in different countries and bookable online rather than internally which also happens.

I did try googling "which conference is zeezeek at?" but I didn't get any answers!

Absolutely not place marking. Can't believe the lack of action from the hotel - really are cutting off their nose to spite their face. Stupid.

I'm not at a conference so unfortunately Google won't help anyone. It's a private meeting for the collaborators on a research project - so, merely 10 people in a meeting room discussing a potential fuck up. I guess the hotel just doesn't see us as important enough to want to pacify.

Oh, and the bill absolutely won't be paid and this hotel will be losing another conference that the organisers of this one are planning for next year - had actually booked the hotel and conference facilities, but will now be moving venues. That one would have been for 400 delegates. Luckily the invites hadn't gone out!

Wait, TEN people? What an unusually round number. I've never been to a meeting with exactly ten people. Therefore this is a troll thread.

Sybys

What a huge pain zeezeek, the hotel are slack as are the parents. I commiserate with your grumpy academic post Christmas working. Hope you get the project sorted.

Thanks Purple. Me too. It's bloody cold here under the bridge

Hope you remembered to pack away your smalls before everyone went to your room Zee.

It's a mistake I made when my team had to come back to mine to finish a presentation after dinner one night.

Has anyone tried going above the manager's head? I would have thought questions will be asked about cancellation of a 400 delegate conference.

I often go to meetings related to public examinations and these regularly take place in large hotels. The rooms can always lock from the inside with hotel staff having key cards if access is needed.

Someone posts a thread that criticises someone's parenting - people start picking holes in EVERY SINGLE IRRELEVANT DETAIL.

Welcome to the new Mumsnet, soon to be renamed 'We're going on a troll hunt'

I think the troll hunting was started because the story (that the OP had been called an entitled child hater) was so obviously untrue. By the time poor OP clarified that she was paraphrasing the thread had gone down that road.

On the other hand, I am amazed people are so sheltered that they think meetings between christmas and new year are unlikely. I am mumsnetting from a big conference call right now. :(

I can't believe the families haven't been chucked out. Definitely do not pay a penny for your stay/conferencing costs.

I need - they ain't small anymore !!

Ok, I should have just written what they'd said instead of paraphrasing it with entitled child haters - but that was the gist of it.

So guess I deserved the troll hunting. Sorry. Have been around here long enough to know that would be picked up. It's a shame we're all so suspicious of each other though. Hey ho.