To think hotel lounges aren't workplaces

[Lydiaatthebarre]

I have been staying in a hotel for the past couple of days and yesterday my friend and I were told to shush by a woman who was not a resident but had come into the hotel with her laptop and phone, ordered a coffee and sat there for about an hour making calls. We weren't shouting or anything, just talking in a perfectly normal voice. She then sighed loudly when two kids sat at a table near her and started playing I Spy.

The last time I stayed in a hotel I was trying to relax and read the paper but two men were using it to have a meeting and make several very loud business calls that could be heard all over the place.

AIBU to think residents should be we to relax in hotel lounges without being made to feel they're gatecrashing someone's office?

@LoveInTokyo

I quite agree with you about noisy business calls in a train. It was especially bad when mobiles were new and the sole preserve of 'yuppies'. You'd get some show-off deliberately leaving their phone to ring 3 times so that all their fellow passengers could see what an important person they are. When in reality they were thinking, 'What a prat.'

And don't get me started on the number of loud telephones that started with 'I'm on the train!'