Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon.
I think the complaints continued even after the kiddos went home to bed.
(And I was just about to post something about trying to get all together - not only would it have cut down on the noise complaints, but we could have ambled from room to hospitality suite and back in our (nifty animal-print) robes.)
We had a couple noise complaints post-Prom, IIRC. It's a small hotel, as Kimptons tend to be.
I thought it was odd that we ended up on so many different floors.
Big and anonymous is better, then! :)
Eh screw 'em unless they fine us.
The worst thing they can do is stick us in some Klimpton database as 'noisy'.
Unless there is some industry-wide database... in which case we'll have to start misspelling our name ourselves.
It's spelled Luxury Yacht but it's pronouced "buffistas".
The one warning about the Kimpton hotels is that they really need to be aware that we are numerous and not silent; if they have a block of rooms on a lower floor (or maybe immediately over the restaurant) so we're not walking on someone else's ceiling that would be the absolute best. The hospitality suite got constant noise complaints from downstairs and across the hall, and IIRC the complaints continued even though everyone kept dialing down the noise further and further.
Why wouldn't this be something to mention to *any* hotel, vs. just Kimptons? (I'm not familiar with Kimpton hotels, so maybe there's something I don't know about them.)
I seem to have some memory of us having noise complaints at another hotel but I can't seem to remember which one.
Tep, the Kimptons are a little more upscale than past hotels, and from what juliana said it sounded like they had done groups before but didn't really have much experience with fannish groups of any sort. The other Safari Inn and Holiday Inn guests weren't expecting nights of hushed pristine silence (and the hotels were smart enough to stick us off in or own corners/wings where we couldn't bother anyone but each other), but the Kimpton guests were expecting something a wee bit more posh, so even after the noise level went down below that at past F2Fs other people were still griping.
Or we just had picky people, you know?
If staying at a Klimpton means risking a greater proponderance of picky people we should take that into consideration. I don't think we're obliged to share that with future hotels though. We didn't exactly go rock star on them.