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It's an annoying children in hotel one

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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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DownAmongtheElves · 30/12/2016 09:59

zeezeek commiserations on the project meetings (just about to go to one myself). But it's MN - how dare you say you're at an important meeting. How very much above yourself you are daring to be I still remember a huge debate on here about people daring to call themselves academics as being pretentious and showy off

I hope you get the project sorted out - RCUK organisations are getting more & more pernicketty & don't get me started on Horizon2020/ERC stuff ...

Rosieposy4 · 30/12/2016 10:05

Mouseinahole
I often go to meetings i hotels about public examinations, last one the door opened directly onto a shared open use area and i am not sure any of use would have known if it could be locked from the inside, certainly didn't look like it could.
But even if yours can, what reason is that to cast any doubt on zeezeeks story.
Sympathies OP, wierd world when the hotel management are happier to piss off the sensible easy going customers over some hard work pillocks.

splendide · 30/12/2016 10:07

Sorry I didn't mean to suggest you deserved it, more saying that I don't think it was your fault - just that people misunderstood.

Hope your day is improving!

DownAmongtheElves · 30/12/2016 10:15

zeezeek I don't think you deserved the silly responses on this thread: people who can't believe that their experience isn't the only experience.

As an academic, I've been at meetings all over the place (particularly for REF meetings). And one of the biggest international conferences in my discipline meets for its annual conference just after Boxing Day. It's a great way to get out of all the mopping up after Christmas Grin Although recently it's been moved to the very early days of January Sad

And I hope your institution pulls out of the large conference booking. The family group's behaviour is appalling & the hotel management spineless.

zeezeek · 30/12/2016 10:31

Thanks Down. It's getting increasingly difficult in academia these days, then we've got the whole Brexit stuff coming and we don't know how that will affect working with our European partners....but that's another thread!

Don't know yet whether the work that we've done will save the project, will find out next month after the steering group meeting. That will be another important and serious meeting, but I promise not to describe it that way on MN for fear of being accused of being pretentious.

Hopefully all will be well and hopefully we will have finished today by early afternoon so I can try and get a flight back to Sweden to be with the husband and kids for New Year.

No. The family haven't been thrown out. We are in another hotels meeting room today and it is much nicer, quieter and although there are kids here they are being parented properly! It's a shame that the previous place decided to put the needs of one family above a long term relationship with a major research institute that used to send lots of business their way.

It's not me that's organised it, so have left the issue in the capable hands of my colleague who works at the institute and the even more capable hands of his PA who deals with the bookings.

They were incredibly foul and gloating towards us as breakfast this morning. But luckily will only be returning briefly to that place to check out, enforce the fact that we aren't paying and then I'll leg it to the airport!

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DownAmongtheElves · 30/12/2016 10:36

Have a good meeting - I really like meetings where we get things done in a collaborative way. 10 clever people around the table is aways better than one person, no matter how clever.

Safe travels & happy New Year.

myfavouritecolourispurple · 30/12/2016 10:59

The troll hunting on here is really getting on my nerves.

Anyway, it's not acceptable for kids to run in and out of conference rooms. I've been to a few meetings in hotels over the years and have never had kids around. Ever.

And it's never acceptable to let your kids run around a bar/restaurant either.

zeezeek · 30/12/2016 16:10

All done now. Just an insincere apology from the reception desk. Such shortsightedness as this hotel isn't really in the middle of a city or near a tourist attraction - but near major roads and a university. I know that I will not be returning there for either business or pleasure and the rest of my colleagues all feel the same. The conference that was going to be held there is being moved elsewhere (I don't know how much they will lose but guess it's nearly £100k). All because they are frightened of sad face Daily Mail headlines - the receptionist hinted that this was the case.

Anyway, I'm heading to the airport and getting back to my family for New Year. Hope everyone has a good one and thanks to those who realised I'm not a troll for working between Christmas and Mew Year!

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GabsAlot · 30/12/2016 17:30

happy new year op

i think the hotel have dropped the ball on this one-100k lost for one family!

elenafrancesca · 30/12/2016 17:32

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Michellelovesizzy · 30/12/2016 19:01

It's not really that bad get a life

YouTheCat · 30/12/2016 19:04

Really, Michelle? You're fine with being called a 'cunt' over your breakfast?

SauvignonBlanche · 30/12/2016 19:11

I don't think I'd be happy being called that at any time of the day.

Michellelovesizzy · 30/12/2016 19:14

Sooorrrryyy I just thought the thread was about a couple of kids trying to get into a room in a hotel they shouldn't have!!! Who got called a cunt ???

ilovesooty · 30/12/2016 19:16

Ever tried reading a thread, Michelle? I appreciate it may seem a novel idea.

Nanny0gg · 30/12/2016 20:14

Grin @ Sooty

Michellelovesizzy · 30/12/2016 20:30

I read the thread at the start, it does not say any one got called cunt!! Just think life is to short to be makein a fuss over a couple of kids messing about!

YouTheCat · 30/12/2016 20:34

At least bother to read the OP's posts.

If it was a minor disturbance for a short time, you might have a point but it wasn't. It was all day, whilst the parents were in the bar. They got into the room and the parents did bugger all about their behaviour. It says as much in the OP. So that's fine in your world?

Michellelovesizzy · 30/12/2016 20:42

I just think there kids playing, that's all I am saying. But being called a cunt a breakfast is totally different story!! Maybe your right thou because I wouldn't allow my daughter.

Michellelovesizzy · 30/12/2016 20:43

to mess around like that and annoy others.

YouTheCat · 30/12/2016 20:52

I think time and place are relevant here. A hotel is not the time or place really. I have no problem with children making noise and having fun in other circumstances.

And running wild in a restaurant is dangerous as well as annoying.

SauvignonBlanche · 30/12/2016 21:02

I read the thread at the start = I read the OP and piled in with my opinion regardless of any updates and how the thread might have moved on as I CBA and my opinion is more important than anything else. Hmm

Michellelovesizzy · 30/12/2016 21:17

I was just reposing to the first thread at no point did I say my opinion matter more than any on else's, r u saying I am not allowed to respond to the first thread?

Michellelovesizzy · 30/12/2016 21:19

The whole convo is about the first thread, lol I new r there rules ?

Lifeonthefarm · 30/12/2016 21:32

Yanbu. Management should have sorted so the business meeting could go ahead properly and accommodated the family somewhere else in the hotel so the kids could let loose. Although doesn't sound like that sort of place, a booking faux pas on the parents part.

People suggesting yabu to mind children bursting into a meeting more than once accidentally are inconsiderate of others. Having kids doesn't make you entitled, you and they still need to behave reasonably!

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