Anyone work in a Premier Inn?

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Our teen slept heavily and wasn't responding to us knocking loudly on his hotel room door and calling his phone. The receptionist had a look but couldn't open it with her key card because he had locked the door from the inside.
She said the only way to open it was the police. Surely there is a way to open the door in these circumstances, without damaging the door ?
(Next time I'm booking a connecting room)

That won't open a door that's locked from the inside, as has already been pointed out dozens of times earlier in the thread.

so a sensible answer is one that agrees with what you think should happen, whereas all the people giving rational and fact-based explanations about why rooms can't be opened, are presumably not-sensible because they conflict with your view of health and safety and how hotels should be run, despite apparently having no experience in either of those fields?

So if I was staying in a premier inn with my DH and he went to bed early and I stayed in the bar to read my book and he and absent-mindedly locked the door so I couldn't get in with my keycard, would the hotel let me in? I am assuming yes, as I am named on the room?

Edited: I guess I could bang on the door so he lets me in himself. But if he didn't hear me...

Well the whole point of the thread is that when the door is locked from the inside, the hotel cannot let you in...

I always get an extra key for the teenagers room so I can go in and wake them up
as they never do and also don’t answer calls/door knocking! Sometimes the phone signal in P Inn is terrible as well!

Is "get a second room key" the new "cancel the cheque"?

Haha!! Yes!!

Did you arse yourself to read any of the thread at all?

If your 18 year old can't be trusted to get up in time to meet a flight that will inconvenience the entire family they simply have to have someone more responsible in with them to get them up.

Once someone is 18 they are an adult and have the right to make silly life choices, and hotel staff should not be the ones required to make judgement calls about whether they are in serious danger.

The price people want to pay for hotels there will simply not be enough staff/management on for them to implement anything like a safe procedure for giving staff access to locked hotel rooms.

Oh!!! There's an idea..

you could easily be a coercive/abusive mother who is trying to get in- and have no right of access. why not leave him til he wakes up?

They had a plane to catch