Quiet please!
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A TripAdvisor online survey of 1,323 travellers, conducted for USA Today, found that 31 percent often have a problem with noise during a hotel stay, which was second only to dirty rooms as the biggest peeve.
The survey found that disturbance by other guests or their TVs is the number 1 source of noise irritation: 59.3% of respondents rated that more annoying than outside noise, construction sounds or housekeeping clatter, USA Today reported.
Loud fellow guests have always been irksome but construction and party noise are growing complaints as more hotels build or renovate and more attract the nightlife set with trendy, music-blasting watering holes, the report said.
Often when a hotel is built, “as the budget gets tighter, they’ll cut soundproofing,” said Lahnie Johnson, president of Acoustiblok, whose products are dozens of hotels.
“But now hotel people are realizing that noise is the biggest cause of complaint, and it does cost hotels money in the long run.”
Paying to muffle noise “was an excellent investment,” Shephard’s Beach general manager Paul Andrews was quoted saying. “Because once you lose customers (who can’t sleep), you don’t get them back.”
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