Not given connecting rooms

Bob_the_Saver

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Are you on the Calpol again;)

mainlining ...............

judderman62

my heavens this place really has gone to the dogs since i was last here.

where did so many morons come from ?

@ OP - is there anything in the brochure that suggests that interconnecting rooms can be guaranteed ? It's something I would have expected could only be on request - depends how many the hotel has I guess too.

If the Travel Agent is a good one they may have call recording and you could ask them to send you a copy of the call (did it say calls are recorded when you rang ).

if they do have it and say they can't find the call I'd take that as a sure sign of them having got it wrong.

If you can establish the above two stick to your guns - go right to the very top management and if needed involve ABTA.

Leave the kids in a room on their own (rolls eyes) did we learn nothing from the Mc Canns ?

poet123

judderman62 wrote: »

my heavens this place really has gone to the dogs since i was last here.

where did so many morons come from ?

@ OP - is there anything in the brochure that suggests that interconnecting rooms can be guaranteed ? It's something I would have expected could only be on request - depends how many the hotel has I guess too.

If the Travel Agent is a good one they may have call recording and you could ask them to send you a copy of the call (did it say calls are recorded when you rang ).

if they do have it and say they can't find the call I'd take that as a sure sign of them having got it wrong.

If you can establish the above two stick to your guns - go right to the very top management and if needed involve ABTA.

Leave the kids in a room on their own (rolls eyes) did we learn nothing from the Mc Canns ?

Seems not. I have to admit I am incredulous that so many seem to think that acceptable.

dickydonkin

JQ. wrote: »

You mean where there is security and trained staff on hand to look after the children.


Do you have children?

Yes and Yes.

There will be hotel security and the 'trained staff' are the parents!

And as for making comparisons with the McCann's - unless the OP is intending leaving the kids in a room and going out of the building to have a good meal and to get sozzled...........but that isn't the case here.

The kids will be in a secure building- the same building as their parents with security and will be put in their secure room at night when the parents are nearby.

Now if the OP is intending to leave them in their room and go out again - that is unacceptable. The McCanns issue needs to be taken in context - yes they were irresponsible, but this type of incident (although tragic), is extremely rare.

cubegame

As you're going to Jamaica, I suspect the most simple answer to the whole conundrum will be to carefully place one $20 bill into the check-in clerk's sweaty palm when you check in and say "Those are connecting room's, aren't they?".

photome

cubegame wrote: »

As you're going to Jamaica, I suspect the most simple answer to the whole conundrum will be to carefully place one $20 bill into the check-in clerk's sweaty palm when you check in and say "Those are connecting room's, aren't they?".

That looks like a solution to me as I suspect the TA will never gtee connecting rooms and cant even request without a room change, which I still think will come at a price

peachyprice

dickydonkin wrote: »

Yes and Yes.

The kids will be in a secure building- the same building as their parents with security and will be put in their secure room at night when the parents are nearby.

Now if the OP is intending to leave them in their room and go out again - that is unacceptable. The McCanns issue needs to be taken in context - yes they were irresponsible, but this type of incident (although tragic), is extremely rare.

You still don't get it do you.

So, they put their very young children in their 'secure' room. They go off to their own room.

The children's room cannot be locked from the inside, the children can get out, but as most hotels have self closing doors they cannot get back into their room, the child is now wandering around a corridor with a dozen identical doors, not knowing which one their mum is in. Parents are oblivious to this as they are inside their own closed room. You really think that's an acceptable thing to do to a child?

They're on holiday, eating foreign foods, in a hot climate, so the 5yo starts chucking up in the night. You really think it's acceptable to leave two 3yo's to cope with a vomitting sibling cos their parent are oblivious to what's going on?

A 3yo wets the bed, they are crying because they are soaked in urine. You think it's acceptable for a 3 and 5yo to be stripping their sibblings !!!! soaked bed, because their parents are oblivious to what is going on?

There are many many scenarios that are actually very highly likely to happen to children in the night sleeping in a stange place, most of which I have experienced over the course of the last 17 years as a parent, none where children of 3 and 5 should be left to fend for themselves.

TBH, I doubt there is a very high risk of abduction, but since others have brought the subject up, there is no difference to the scenario you are suggesting to the McCanns, they left their children in a locked apartment, out of sight and out of earshot, you're suggesting it's perfectly fine for OP to leave her children in a locked hotel room, out of sight and out of earshot. It doesn't matter that they are somewhere in the same building, they would not be able to see or hear what is going on in their children's room.

I don't believe for one second that MMcC was taken by a random person, it was most likely to be someone who knew those children were regularly left out of sight of their parents, it wouldn't take many nights for someone to realise OP's children were left everynight alone in a room out of sight of their parents. If there's a risk there, you just don't take it.

As for comparing it to a hospital? Really? Which hospital do you know that puts children in individual locked rooms where nursing staff can't hear or see them? They don't.

Dasa

NO WAY would I put my kids in a room on their own down some corridor. The mind boggles that some people would.:(

sunshinetours

Hope OP updates and suggest everyone else stops feeding the trolls. noone with kids can surely believe some of the stuff being suggested in these posts

poet123

sunshinetours wrote: »

Hope OP updates and suggest everyone else stops feeding the trolls. noone with kids can surely believe some of the stuff being suggested in these posts

To be honest I don't think they are trolls, some long time posters have stated they see no harm or danger in having children, even such very young children, in a separate room in a hotel. As I said, I am incredulous, but I think that is their genuine view.