Banging or tapping on the walls never works. Trust me.
Knocking on their doors works sometimes, but it never works on someone with kids. Used to be you’d complain about someone’s kid and they would do something about it. Nowadays you complain about someone’s kid and they take it as a personal insult.
Always call the front desk. Be nice. It isn’t their fault. The nicer you are to them, the nicer they’re likely to be to you.
On a business trip to Philly, I was staying in a luxury hotel next to a Chinese woman who spent the greater part of the late night (1am to about 4am) screaming into the phone in chinese. Guess she was calling home. I complained about it to the desk and they ended up having a talk with her about it and moving HER to a new room. Perhaps I wasn’t the only one to complain.
Was in a hotel in Wall, SD where the parents were across the hall from me and the kids were next to me. All flippin’ night they were running back and forth, slamming the doors. I asked to move down the hall to a quieter room. The parents were arrogant, inconsiderate assholes who didn’t want to hear that their precious children were disturbing anyone else.
Nowadays I always ask for a quiet room, away from any rooms with children in them.
I used to carry hearing protection with me so that I could sleep through the first couple of hours of noise or on long flights, but since they’re shooter’s equipment and probably have gunpowder residue on them, I doubt that I’ll be trying to take them on any airline flights in the future…