Damage in hotel room - I’m an idiot

[HotelWoes]

Been staying at a really lovely 4* hotel for the last two nights. Breathtakingly beautiful place, staff are all so lovely, great facilities. Had a really stressful few weeks so went away with DP to unwind.

There have been a few issues - we didn’t realise when booking that this is also a wedding venue, and there was a wedding here yesterday. Which was fine, didn’t really affect us except that we are on the ground floor very near to the area where the wedding guests would go and smoke, and drunkenly shout and screech at each other. We had our windows open as it was too warm to close them, so could hear it all loud and clear. This went on until just before 2am so didn’t manage to get to sleep until then. Then got woken up early this morning by heavy machinery that had arrived to do some work on the grounds driving around, again close to our window.

Also, the wifi is shite. Don’t know whether it’s just our room but when I say shite I mean you literally can’t use it for watching stuff online, and that’s something that DP and I spend most of our time doing when we go away (sad as it sounds). We haven’t been able to do that at all, and there’s not even any phone signal to hotspot from. I was also planning to spend a bit of time doing some online training that I have to do before Monday, but haven’t been able to do that. I have mentioned it to reception 4 times now, they kept saying they’d send someone over to boost the signal, but it didn’t make any difference. The manager did say to us at 10pm tonight that she’d reset the router and if that didn’t work she could move us to another room, miraculously it did help, and we managed to watch a whole film before it dropped out again, but as it was now getting on for midnight we just gave up.

Anyway, sounds like a lot of moaning there 🤣, but other than that the place is great. But this evening I did something really daft. I put the hot hair straighteners on the wooden desk and left a burn mark on the desk. I have never damaged anything in a hotel room before and now I feel sick worrying about it. I’m going to have to fess up in the morning I know, but worried we’ll be charged hundreds of pounds. Has anyone had any experience of this kind of thing? Can’t sleep (again) for worrying about it.

Jeez you’re taking this personally. Who is yelling here? You’re the only one who seems to be getting wound up.

OP’s post contained a lot of irrelevant information as her intentions were clear - show how terrible the stay has been and then I won’t need to fess up. But all of that is irrelevant, and I would say that to my friends.

You must be a joy to hang out with.

As must do half the people on this thread who also think the wedding, the noise and the Wi-Fi doesn’t give OP an excuse to damage furniture…

The irony of your post clearly goes over your head.

It sounds like a shit hotel. You can’t sleep, you can’t relax and you can’t use the internet? But it’s great?

I’d not bother telling them. Accidents happen

@Thetowelsareallwrong you're very literal minded, aren't you? I keep forgetting there are people like that.

I know. I like shaggy dog stories. If not, don't read it.

Straightening it….
they don’t work if they’re not hot. Especially if like me you have a lot of frizz.

Quite. Opposite to you, I have dead straight hair but we both know that the only thing that will make it go the way we want - smooth or curls - is heat. We do realise what it might do to our hair or any surfaces we put the hot curler/straightener down on.

But thanks to @oakleaffy for the superfluous warning. Hair is just dead, btw, @oakleaffy. If you ruin it you can just cut it off and start all over again.

From someone that worked in a hotel, don’t fess up. They can’t prove it was you so can’t charge it.

during a stay at a holiday lodge, attached to luxury hotel, I removed a saucepan from the electric stove, it was boiling over and I am not used to electric. It immediately causes a bubble on the cheap/plastic worktop. There was no pan rests.
I was sick with worry and immediately fessed up and went to see them at reception. They were lovely about it, they have insurance and didn’t charge me anything.