To ask for your tips on sleeping with noise

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At the weekend I was kept awake by revellers in a nearby garden whose party went on until 2am. Last night (and tonight) I am in a hotel where smokers congregate and chatter noisily intermittently until the early hours - as I have the window open it wakes me up (1.30 this morning)

I am becoming murderous because of my sleep disturbance but realistically no-one is going to change their behaviour. I need a strategy to drown/mask the noise. Earplugs don’t work for me so I am considering headphones and some kind of sleep music/app thing - anyone have any tips.

Maybe try white noise.

Can you ask to move rooms at the hotel? Also it would not be unreasonable of you to complain about smokers standing under your windows. You'd think they'd put the smokers place well away from the building.
I know you say ear plugs don't work, but there are many different types. I can't get on with the foam ones, (they make my ears itch) but have recently discovered some made of a type of wax which are brilliant and I can't hear a thing.

Thanks - tried the waxy and the foam earplugs - neither cuts out enough noise.

Anyone else have tips for what they use?

I’m generally so physically tired that a road drill wouldn’t keep me awake.
Can you go for a run before bed?

Get better earplugs that are guaranteed to reduce the amount of decibels by a set amount. There's no way they can't work.

I can't sleep with a window open, so I'd shut the window. Noises from outside are really disturbing especially if they're intermittent.

White noise. Get an app , it's worth a try.

Headphone in with a youtube video - I like rainforest sounds/rain/thunder etc.

Or a meditation video where the narrator speaks in a low monotone voice, I use 'Hypnosis for Weigh Loss' by Michael Sealey (even though I'm not trying to lose weight) - I barely make it past the sitting on a bench on the beach part before I'm asleep!

Or put the air con/fan on, the white noise from that helps.