Re: [70ATTENDEES] Construction noise

I usually use my room between meetings to finish up on slides, read e-mail,
and unwind.  Plus, my wife is flying in later this week for a "vacation"

I was told by the front desk, in a not-very-polite manner, that the hotel
was full, I could not move, and there was nothing they could do about the
noise.

-Dave

On Dec 4, 2007 4:45 PM, John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> wrote:

>
>
> --On Tuesday, 04 December, 2007 15:14 -0500 "Lindberg, Jon"
> <Jon.Lindberg@neustar.biz> wrote:
>
> > Construction should not start that early!  I will be meeting
> > with the hotel within 90 minutes and report back with more
> > details following our meeting.
>
> In my first conversation with them on the subject yesterday, I
> was informed that the construction crew worked 8 to 4 or 8 to 5,
> that I could expect the noise during that interval all week, and
> that I had better get used to it because there was no
> alternative.   The person I spoke with also told me that it was
> ok because we were all in the meeting area all day anyway and
> there was no construction there.   Fortunately for me, a short
> time later the folks with the rotary hammer apparently managed
> to break a pipe over the room, resulting in the room becoming
> uninhabitable, and they had a cancellation, so they moved me.
> But that clearly isn't a general solution.
>
> People pay for these rooms for 24 hours,  not when the hotel
> thinks they should be in them.   If the hotel wants to make them
> uninhabitable for 8 or 9 hours of the day, the rates should go
> down by at least 1/3, probably more.
>
>     john
>
>