We have hockey teams in house tonight and they are driving me crazy. My front desk person is useless and then my security is even more useless. He just sits in his car, drives around the parking lot and only comes in if radio'd. I am not having a great night. I barely got any sleep and these boys are so rowdy. Its 1 am go to bed.
Update; the rest of the parents went to bed at 4 am and then their children decided "oh our parents are passed out drunk, lets go run around". At 4:45 a couple kids decided to start running up and down the stairs AGAIN
The hotel I work at literally makes hockey teams sign a "you will watch your kids and not disturb other guests" form now and they bitch and moan when we actually enforce it. Crazy that the world doesn't revolve around your youth hockey team!
Also crazy that no other sport seems to need reminders to be decent human beings!
I stayed at a hotel once that was hosting a couple youth baseball teams, they were wild too. It isn’t just hockey.
Girls competitive cheer teams are pretty nuts too
Former cheerleader here I believe this lol
I used to exhibit at a trade show at a large Midwest convention center. The show overlapped with the cheer competition weekend. It wasn’t just at the hotel but the local restaurants, too. Swarms of girls 6-17 yo, all made up to look alike! Moms loved to party too.
Lol I can imagine it’s quite a shock to people not used to it! Some of those moms are the most terrifying ppl I’ve ever met!!
and wrestling.
Add to that gymnastics teams, please. My husband opened our room door because he kept hearing a thud, like a knock, at our door. As he opened the door, a girl tumbled past in a full set of round-offs, in the hallway, at 10 pm. She wasn't alone.
When you wish hotel doors open outwards
I thought ours had that but we switched GMs once again so im not sure what we even have anymore
No. It’s literally all the sports teams. Only exception I’ve seen is a team with a strict coach.
The one exception I’ve seen to that is youth rugby teams. Those kids and families were always great. 🤷♀️
You have clearly never dealt with Wisconsin junior bowlers.
This should be standard. We’ve had to sign a form like that before at hotel parties for adults (a NYE was one). So why don’t they???
I had a business trip to Atlanta and discovered there was a (state or national?) cheerleading competition in town. I contend that teenage girls screaming and flipping in the hallways can be as louder or louder than a bunch of boys. They were still running and screaming in the halls when I left in the morning.
Glad to know another industry feels my pain. We have frequent hockey tournaments in my city. We'll get calls like "Can we make a reservation for 45?" No. It's a busy night, we're not blocking off the majority of our tables for you because we know how you act. So I tell them you're welcome to come in without a reso, but it's first come first serve. You will be sat at different tables according to what's available. Queue the meltdowns because they want 45 people to all sit together (on which only about 25 will show up anyway, but they'll want the extra tables so they can spread out. We've danced that dance before.) The they arrive and they don't want to sit with their kids, don't want to even keep track of their kids so who knows who belongs to who. Complain about everything, make a huge mess, then leave. It's such a hassle that it's barely even worth it.
Pilot for an airline here. Worst night's sleep I ever had was in Bangor ME sharing a hotel with teen hockey teams. With a 4:15 van for a 5am flight, we found ourselves outside the hotel at 2am, having not slept a bit because of rowdy parents and then a teen pulling the fire alarm. Right then and there we called out fatigued, which resulted in our flight delaying until noon.
My captain made an announcement at the gate apologizing for the delay, but made sure everyone knew it was so we could safely operate the flight.
I felt bad for the passengers, because everyone with a connection missed it, but there was no way to operate that flight safely.
I hope you filed a complaint with the hotel and also with your airline’s travel department.
This
Were you at the Holiday Inn Express there?
Imagine the irony if any of those hockey teams were supposed to be on that flight. I hope the Cpt would have let the whole flight know about the reason too.
Hockey teams are one of the main reasons I left hotels. The kids and the parents are so fucking entitled. I once had a parent tell me she didn’t care if our rule was no ministicks, which her kid signed a piece of paper saying they wouldn’t play with, because we didn’t have any refrigerators left because they were in use in other rooms.
It blows me away that EVERY team brings those stupid little floor hockey kits. They drive every other guest in the hotel crazy. A shred of common sense is too much to ask.
I'm in a hotel now with a hockey tournament in town.
Two conference rooms are set aside by the hotel for the kids to play knee hockey with their mini sticks.
50% of the hotel is booked by the tournament.
It's honestly a great system.
The tournament also gives out vouchers for lunch at about a dozen restaurants in town that accommodate the teams and every team has an assigned restaurant for dinner each night.
The community understands where the revenue is coming from. The teams go to their assigned locations . It's great
50% of the guests at the hotel are others then, are they equally positive?
They specifically create an environment that works.
The hotel gets business they wouldn't get The kids get a space to be 12 year-old athletic kids cooped up away from their house The rest of the guests have the space they would normally have at a hotel because the kids have a pre-designated space.
Honestly it's pretty forward thinking
Entilted as heck. Especially since covid, it seems 200x worse. Then its worse when you have incompetent coworkers. Had my FD person let an old guy go into the closed pool area for the hot tub cuz he "tweaked his back". Then i had to continuously tell people after he left and they noticed someone in there, that the pool was closed
The stories I read here are why I am very careful to avoid hockey hotels.
I noticed some room rates were unusually high for a stay this coming summer, and discovered it's a hockey tournament! So, I went to the tournament registration page where they list the host hotels, and made sure to pick one not on the list.
All of you who deal with this in your hotels have my sympathy. However, I would be absolutely livid if a team kept me up late at night and the hotel didn't do anything about it. Having a quiet night's sleep is the most important part of my hotel stays. 😴
Restaurant manager for 2 decades here...
...most sports teams suck, they just do. But give me ANY other sport besides hockey teams, they are ALWAYS. THE. WORST. Most ignorant, entitled, douchebag people on the planet, both parents and kids.
F*** YOUTH HOCKEY TEAMS!!!!
Black list the whole sports club this team represents, and let other hotels nearby know their behavior, to at least prevent future problems.
Send an email to their coach and let them know of the disrespectful and unprofessional behavior their team has.
🤣the coach is probably the ringleader😂
🤣😂🤣 Probably! There's a reason why the families are always stuck at the cheapest motel in town while the coaches stay in a 5 star hotel with a pool, spa and all you can eat breakfast lol! We've had to call the police before because the parents all checked in with a big group of 8 year old boys, then left them here while they all rented themselves better rooms at the fanciest hotel on the other side of the city. Nothing says I love my kid more than a weekend of parental neglect. 🤣😂🤣
Just returned from a short trip to Niagara Falls and while there, I checked out three different hotels for a future return trip with others. Two of the hotels had large signs at each entrance regarding "mini sticks" being prohibited in the hotels and if found, would be confiscated until check out." Unfamiliar with the term, I asked at the desk as to what the signs meant. His face tightened and he said, "Hockey sticks." I learned that there was a tournament of some sort taking place nearby and that the kids liked to practice shooting pucks in the hotel hallways and common areas. After that, I saw exactly what he alluded to in the third hotel, as kids were running amok, with hockey sticks. Not a single adult to be seen, I also noted.
All this is exactly why I never went on a single Hockey trip with my son’s team; i decided early that he could work it out with his absent father - or he could skip the trip- but I wasn’t going. Ever.
The Dad’s- Bunch of drunk losers still living in their hometowns, living vicariously through their ambivalent kids…
The Mom’s- Trying to out “mean girl” each other .
The Kids- Who cares? F Off! They’re “paying for it”🙄
Sounds like you’re the shitty one. What a great supporting parent you are.
No they're right. It's an awful environment, parents and kids alike are prone to damn near psychopathic behaviour. They're awful, entitled, and some parents groups even brag about it online. I've straight up seen hockey parents groups proudly posting their antics in hotels.
At least some of the parents realize how godawful the environment is.
Look for a hotel that does not have free breakfast. The sports teams only do free breakfast hotels. Only way I’ve found to avoid them.
We dont have free breakfast. Havent for the last 10 years i think.
Turn off the keys on the doors after midnight. At 1 a.m., turn off the TVs.
At the reservation, send each youth group an adult waiver disallowing the consumption of alcohol, resulting in a ban on that family using the chain ever again. Require a $5000 deposit from the school district as a noise and disturbance deposit. Each time a complaint is received, contact the hotel room of every adult and the cell phone of every adult. Have another agreement with the host of the tournament that any misbehavior will result in the cancellation of the reservations, and the tournament agrees to forfeit the games that the team played or would have played. It will not take long to read a story about a hockey team whose chaperones were in the bar getting drunk while their kids ran wild. Having the tournament organizer on the news the following morning, explaining how a team forfeited their championship at the tournament, before suddenly, every hockey team becomes little angels at future events. Try to get other hotels in the area to implement similar policies. A police officer sitting in the hallway of the youth rooms will help quell many of the shenanigans. The security tapes for the floors with the youth on them should be immediately duplicated upon their departure. Copies should be sent to the school principal, the superintendent, and the tournament hosts.
These youth hockey teams have nothing to do with schools.
How do you know that?
That's how youth hockey works in the US and in Canada.
My high school jazz band was pretty obnoxious on trips. Sorry 😢
I travel a good amount for work and was in southern Maine for a night a few weeks ago at an IHG hotel. My “preference” is a lower floored room away from the elevator, if possible. No big deal if this doesn’t happen, though, I just put it on the off chance it can be accommodated. The employee at the desk started apologizing in a quick, nervous tone while he intimated I was on the sixth floor with and while I was right next to the elevator there was a reason for it: there was a hockey team and their people staying for two nights that were filling up the floors below. He was concerned I wouldn’t get any rest if I was too close to them. And I’m glad she did, because they were f*cking animals. Guy really did me a solid.
My daughter played travel hockey for a girls 19u and 16/19u team. The coach was insistent on good behavior and the girls were always quiet and respectful.
They could fix the problems if they wanted to. But too often, the coaches and parents don't want to be responsible for their kids.
When we have the girls, its fine. We dont even need waivers but when it comes to the boys, its like a park. Running, yelling, throwing things. Thankfully tonight they got told, dont act up or we cant come back.
Went on vacation recently and felt really lucky the sports kids staying at my hotel were super respectful. The kid on the fourth floor above me was another story though.
If I was evil, I would ignore them going into the gym and getting hurt.. but they f'n steal the magnetic safety keys instead of getting hurt.. 😔
Tell kids to watch new hockey show. Heated Rivarly will keep them occupied for hours.
as a guest, I especially love the ones who have never seen an elevator before, and engage in the "elevator vs. stairs" races. Good times. /s
It does not say youth hockey. It mentions teenagers, which could refer to high school teams. Regardless, whether youth leagues or high schools, it would make life difficult if they could not book hotels. In 30 years of officiating multiple sports at the youth through college levels, youth and high school chaperones were not permitted to consume alcohol. Any damages would come out of damage policies required by schools and youth leagues. Teens should not be allowed to run wild under the supervision of the chaperones.
Where I come from, all smaller cities basically only have one hotel, and the bar/restaurant is also the local nightclub and the area outside is for youngsters with loud cars. They usually warn about this when booking weekend hotel rooms, but sometimes there are no options. One time they gave out earplugs when I checked in.
When my son played travel hockey as a high schooler, the coaches would make the players carry hockey bags filled with beer. Nice.
The hotels sign up for this. Often these tournaments require the parents to book at a specific hotel and rate (usually without any discount).
We had a bunch of different sports groups but the worst was the gymnastics girls. They FAed so much that they FOed because every room in their group booking got a immediate involuntary checkout the morning of their competition. When they started screaming about it we presented them with the police reports, damage bills and trespass papers.
Name and shame the hotel
Call the tournament director and notify them of the behavior.
Hahah a lot of people in these comments didn’t play spots and it shows, they’re kids having fun, cry about it some more
Sure. Let them do it in your bedroom then. I'm sure it'll be fine when it's three am and you're trying to sleep and they're screaming in your ear.
You had kids. Yours. They're not mine and I'm not dealing with their bad behavior. Either learn to parent or embrace explaining yourself to cops because the FD doesn't get paid enough to put up with it.
Its not about kids having fun, it's about respecting other people. You are at a hotel with people who are not part of the stupid sports thing respecting them is not hard.
“Spots”?
Oh no not a typo🙄🤡
Whatever you say, jock
So this seems like your hotel has no rules?? Blame your bosses!!!
Apparently we do have rules they need to sign but the person checking them in, did not do their job correctly and forgot to give them it.
You were a teenager once, allow them some fun!
They can be obnoxious somewhere else, not a hotel where other people are trying to sleep. Yes. I was a teen once. And if I had ever acted like that in a hotel, my mom would have chewed me up for being self-absorbed and rude. If you want teens to be able to be raucous and out of control at 1 AM, you can host them at your house.
Theres a difference between fun and disturbing. They dont need to be running the halls and stairs, and knocking on other guests doors as their parents get wasted downstairs.
I am currently in a hotel with this and this thread has been so validating. I have been here for work for a few days and halfway through my work trip a hockey team.. LOTS.. come. The parents…. They are the problem honestly. SO entitled… discipline your kids… they just allow it to be like a MacDonald’s play room they rented out?? The mini hockey sticks OMGGG hallways..I am so baffled by the lack of awareness and disrespect to other guests and the workers
I was a teenager. I had a lot of fun.
But I also wasn't a shithead who made my fun someone else's misery and it miserable.
I travelled to the UK with my class when I was in high school.
We were teenagers in hotels, we had fun and built memories, but did it while also allowing other guests to sleep at night and without causing everlasting trauma to the staff.
I’m sorry your parents didn’t raise you well.