Screaming baby at ski resort -- who's right and who's wrong?

Completely different. You don't have to take a kid to a fancy restaurant or a movie.

A crying kid on a plane or in a hotel is for the most part unavoidable.

 

Ski resorts do everything these days to make their places seem family friendly. Kids stay free, kids ski free, kids eat free... We have a local place that even will rent gear for free to kids... Super cheap lessons... Anything to get the parents there...

 

Kids are always to blame.

 

I don't think it's unreasonable to have a "family floor" but as I said earlier, I'd be more concerned about being kept up by about a hundred different groups of people before I'd be worried about a crying baby.

 

You gotta be kidding.

A baby's wails pierce through walls like no other sound known to man.

It's not a matter of the resort being family-friendly. It's a case of not being tone-deaf and bringing an infant who's not ready for "public consumption." Yours apparently was.

 

In my far-too-many-years on the road with NASCAR (read: 2), this was my MO:

1. Sleep peacefully
2. Jerk awake from yelling drunken redneck idiots who think a hotel hallway is the best place to continue the party
3. Rip open the door, tell them to shut up because it's ass o'clock and some of us have to work the next day
4. Ignore snickers
5. Wait for recurrence of noise, which always came within 5 minutes
6. Make second attempt, this time with a pitiful face and all "Come on, guys, please? At least go into your rooms?"
7. Ignore being ignored
8. Call the front desk. Tell them.
9. Listen for assholes being told to get the fuck out of the hallway at 3 a.m.
10. Wait for the immature assholes to knock on my door twice before giving up
11. Go back to sleep


So yeah, I had more drunken rednecks than most, considering the clientele of my sport. But at least adults understand when they're SUPPOSED to be quiet. There is no time limit on a screaming baby.

 

My favorite hotel story... We're covering the SEC Tournament in Atlanta. Every night we went out partying until 4-5 in the morning. The floor we were on was shared equal parts media and a church youth group convention.

The first night we were there, I forgot to put out my Do Not Disturb sign and the maid service came into my room shortly after 7 in the morning. They walked in, I woke up, they quickly apologized and left...

The next night, one of the other writers went to bed and we swiped the "Do Not Disturb" sign from his door. The maid service woke him up and he was bitching and moaning about it all day long. So the next night, I swiped the sign again. Same thing happened and he bitched and moaned about it all day long. So naturally that night, we swiped the sign again. The next morning, I was up early doing radio and I saw the maid service outside my room. He was in the room next to me, so I stuck my head out into the hallway to see what was going to happen. Sure enough, the maid walks into his room and I hear "Fuck you, get out of here!" and the maid scrambles down the hallway.

He runs out of his room in his boxers down to the where the maid is and says, "If you come into my room again, I'm going to shit in the sink!"

I was on the floor I was laughing so hard.

 

Hahahaahahah yeah someone screaming at another person who's probably not even making a living wage, threatening her. That's GOLD.

The prank was supposed to be on her, right? In that she didn't know she wasn't supposed to go in the room? Because otherwise, if the prank was on HIM and you let him go down the hallway screaming at her and cussing at her, then you're an asshole.

 

The prank was on him. I didn't know he was going to flip out. I copped to it later and he was embarrassed (and very pissed at me).

 

But it sure was funny when it was happening!!

 

Nope. It was funny either way. ;D

 

Yeah, I've been wondering about this too. Any ski resort that declares itself off-limits to family is a ski resort that wants to go out of business.

It costs a hell of a lot of money to ski. The people who have that money are working people in their 30s and 40s -- i.e., people with kids. You aren't going to make much of a business appealing solely to empty-nesters in their 50s.