Beyond disgusting

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We are luckily enough to be in Paris watching some of the Olympics - it has been fantastic - bit hot and steamy, poor air con but waiters actually trying to understand my poor french rather than the usual dismissive look!

Staying in an average 4star hotel, air con average but it has been vv hot and humid. Old converted office type building, narrow corridors and 4 small rooms on our floor.

We came back last night to a stench - only way to describe it. Then realised what it was, the American family in the room opposite had left their childs diaper folded up on the floor outside their room - not bagged. Their door is opposite ours about 1.5 metres away.

Went into our room, aircon had not been on all day and it honked. Opened windows sprayed deodorant no luck.

At 2330 - had had enough, knocked gently on their door, baby crying so not asleep. Mum opens it with a second diaper in her hand, bent down and put it on the floor by the other one and then said can I help you?

Now fairly obvious at this point one of her DCs has the trots - but who in their right mind thinks it is ok, to wrap up your childs diaper and leave it on the corridor for other guests to smell.

I politely asked her to put them in the bin
REsponse : I can't they smell so bad.
ME: Why do you think it is OK to share your childs stinking shits with other guests by leaving them in the corridor - my room stinks
REsponse: this is normal in the USA
ME: Well normal in Europe is to bag them and put them in the garbage, can I suggest you do that and take them outside to a bin on the street.
REsponse: No way, it is too late and started to close the door
ME: You really are disgusting - and promptly kicked the diapers into their room before she shut the door
REsponse : you can't do that
Me: watch me, either you bin them or I will bang on your door every 5 minutes, wake up your kids until you do

Two other doors opened to see what was going on - both American families who defended their friends actions.

So I offered to bang on all their doors until someone put them in a bin.
Stand off - I raised my hand to bang on the door and one of the men picked them up and legged it down the stairs.

I have not smelt anything quite that bad for a long long time.

They called me all sorts of names but seriously this can not be normal American behaviour?

Good for you, OP!
Ignore the stupid twats on here who would blithely just put up with it, apparently 😂

Hmm maybe take the nappies out to the bin herself if it was really that bad instead of moaning about it, the smell couldnt have been as bad as she made out or you would have constant stenches when staying in hotels. So ya, be proactive & you know, helpful (shocker) instead of massively overreacting.

You absolutely did the right thing. Not normal at all to literally throw your shit into an hotel corridor. And why are posters saying OP shouldn’t have disturbed them and phoned reception. Well then reception would have been disturbing the feral parents so why waste time

Laughable that some posters think you are in the wrong. Obviously CFs just like the people you encountered

Do you? You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. I do just fine.

Haven’t they heard of scented nappy bags?? You double them up if you have to. Or take them downstairs to ask to put them in the main bin.

Bravo, OP, bravo. I can’t stand selfish fuckers like them.

Do you think hotel staff are sub humans to clean up crap that should be put in a bag by the parents? I know many people dont value customer service, but this is an extra shitty (pun intended) comment.

This 😂

I’m American and would’ve done the same thing ans you OP. And I don’t think that’s normal at all in America, never seen or heard of it before in my life. I would’ve put it in outside bin like normal people do.

Same here, plus you never know who's on the other side of that door and whether they have a knife or a gun or are otherwise just crazy.

What was she supposed to do?
Clean up herself?

Exactly this, that gobby mouth could get you in trouble sometime op

Do you often need the help of complete strangers to look after your children?

Totally not a typical thing to do in America. They are just dirty scum bags. Why should the hotel patrons have to smell it and why would the staff clean it up. Good on you for booting them back into their room. Amused at people saying you should help by cleaning up the nappies

Not an American custom. They may have thought it belonged in the hallway like hotel plates/meals sometimes do for pickup. But that would be wring in the US too.

That is way beyond the call of duty. It was the family’s job to bag up the nappies and take them outside. There was a whole group of them!

I've never encountered Americans behaving like that because of tipping, and I have 17 years of experience living in the US. The Americans are generally very polite and considerate, and have great social skills, IME.

Not all heroes wear capes! Well done, OP!

And this is why people continue to be CFs and other people put up with it because people are “too scared” to pull people up on their very obvious shitty (literally in this case) behaviour

And before someone says well phone reception why should they put themselves at supposed risk and OP shouldn’t?

Exactly. If the hotel knew, they could have set the guests up with supplies, and the dad should have been bagging up the nappies and taking them outside. There's really no excuse for leaving those foul nappies in the corridor.

As former hotel staff, Ive dealt with stuff like this before. Tbh it sounds like OP was able to handle the situation better than the hotel staff could have.

They would have either a) knocked on the doors, asked the guests to remove their rubbish, be met with loads of abuse and/or excuses why they can't, followed up with a complaint that would have been investigated by managers and staff member may have been disciplined or b) just cleaned up the shit to save the headache and spend the rest of the shift having to check and clean up shit.

At least OP got results.

It’s the job of the hotel staff to deal with unruly customers.

How about Americans on holiday in other countries?
I have been horrified by their behaviour in various Carribean countries and also Mexico. The staff in our Mexican hotel last year told me that they would rather deal with Brits who treated them like humans than the Americans who were awful to them but tipped better - I speak excellent Spanish and got to know quite a few staff members pretty well.
I have also had cultural training on Americans due to my job and we were told that their behaviour to people they view as serving staff etc can be very questionable due to the fact that they think tipping makes everything ok and I have seen it regularly. They treat me well as I am an "equal" but anyone who serves them in any capacity is not always treated with the same respect.

yes! So happy to read someone actually doing something for once!

As former hotel staff, Ive dealt with stuff like this before.

@CatamaranViper were they Americans?

Sorry - life is too short, this hotel was not cheap, it is steamy in Paris and aircon in France is not known for its super power - that smell was staying until the origin was moved.

We were up early this morning, off to an early starting Olympic event, this has been a trip of a lifetime and I am not getting bad sleep due to someone elses childs shit,

I have asked reception for a new room but Paris is heaving and a family room is not easy to come by. The poor guy on reception rolled his eyes and apologised - not his fault and said they did this two days ago aswell, we will give them another bin.

Let's see what tomorrow brings - we have as a family bet on

1. Nappy / diaperon the floor unbagged
2. Nappy / diaper on the floor bagged
3. Nappy /diaper in the bi n and the bin outside the door
4. No nappy / diaper