aloft - boutique and noise-part II
After dinner, you unpack the car and arrive in the room, the wall-controlled AC is operating. You turn on the TV, hear the fridge humming away and you start working on your computer. Then around 11:00 a.m. as each of these items is dialed off you realize this is THE NOISIEST HOTEL YOU’VE EVER STAYED. You wonder what type of room they give people who don't ask for a quiet room. Not smart. Wouldn't it be nice if all hotel personnel were required to spend 30 minutes in the middle of the night in each room that they promote to customers as being quiet?
ROOM 616 on the top floor north side with its floor-to-ceiling windows just pulls the noise from Interstate 65. And you can’t imagine on a Wednesday night how many tractor trailers drive down that road. It’s a constant buzz. Airport hotels are a dream compared to this. At least planes eventually stop at some point. It’s not like staying next to a train track either, where they come and go. This is like being at the racetrack where...
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After dinner, you unpack the car and arrive in the room, the wall-controlled AC is operating. You turn on the TV, hear the fridge humming away and you start working on your computer. Then around 11:00 a.m. as each of these items is dialed off you realize this is THE NOISIEST HOTEL YOU’VE EVER STAYED. You wonder what type of room they give people who don't ask for a quiet room. Not smart. Wouldn't it be nice if all hotel personnel were required to spend 30 minutes in the middle of the night in each room that they promote to customers as being quiet?
ROOM 616 on the top floor north side with its floor-to-ceiling windows just pulls the noise from Interstate 65. And you can’t imagine on a Wednesday night how many tractor trailers drive down that road. It’s a constant buzz. Airport hotels are a dream compared to this. At least planes eventually stop at some point. It’s not like staying next to a train track either, where they come and go. This is like being at the racetrack where they just zoom, zoom, zoom all day and night long.
At 5:30 a.m. after low quality sleep, I write this. Have cranked up the AC and you can still here it. Even in the bathroom, separated by another wall you can hear the noise. Maybe a lower floor or a room on the other side of the building might have helped, but I won’t be coming back to find out.
Have loved Franklin, Tenn. otherwise, just not wild about Aloft. Perhaps the name should have been A La Noise.
A suggestion to the hotel owner: look at replacing your windows with ones that are better insulated, as these are not getting the job done. I can clearly see all lanes of north and southbound traffic. Great hotel. Poor location.
Oh and the noise from the patio adjacent to the enclosed patio. When people sit out there at night to midnight, the noise carries straight up the side of the building.
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