Hilton HHonors - Public Display of Affection — or PDA — in the Club

I am not naming the property unless it gets out of hand

However I did have to politely suggest to some young kids that they should not be PDAing on the couch in the Executive Club. One of them told me it was not my business and they got up and left a few minutes later.

Nothing obscene but much more than a peck on the cheek.

One of the hotel's security guys just walked by to scope me out but said nothing other than hi.

Not sure if they will try to raise a ruckuss or not but regardless, these kids don't need to be making out in the club

If it was my kids I would go nuclear.

Am I right or just old fashion

Yes.



You were correct. I would let the duty manager know. Just for your own protection.

I did not want to make a scene or embarrass the kids anymore than I had to but if they had kept it up, I would have brought staff into it.

Makes me wonder if I was a brat like that when I was younger?

That ia rhetorical question

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1. Nothing wrong with using your smart phone in the lounge.

2. Even if there was and it bothers you, you are neither an employee of the hotel nor their parent. Speak to a hotel employee if you want.

3. If someone who was not an employee spoke to my kid, I'd have hotel security all over them in a second and demand that they get the boot.

I think you are missing the message here - the OP was intending to state "Public Displays of Affection" and not "Personal Digital Assistant". People of any age should not be using the public lounge for Public Displays of Affection ("Public Displays of Affection, can be seen in the form of kissing, touching, groping, licking, nuzzling, cuddling, crossing hands into each other's ..."), and this may be part of the reason many lounges do not permit younger people to be in lounges unaccompanied, if at all.

(Parenthetically, this is why we do not necessarily encourage overuse of abbreviations on FlyerTalk - they may have multiple meanings, or even unknown to some of our members form other cultures / countries.)

I certainly agree with reporting the incident to the duty manager.

1. Nothing wrong with using your smart phone in the lounge.

2. Even if there was and it bothers you, you are neither an employee of the hotel nor their parent. Speak to a hotel employee if you want.

3. If someone who was not an employee spoke to my kid, I'd have hotel security all over them in a second and demand that they get the boot.

I don't think you should have said anything to them. The staff should have handled it, if necessary you should have brought it to their attention.

Good going Milesbuilder! I would have said something to them as well!^

Yes, PDA may have other definitions, but then so does "young kids". Were these teenagers escaping parental supervision, or a couple of 40yos putting some spice in the relationship? I'm on the upper end of my 50s and still get called a kid by some older and younger (not that I look that young).

Regardless, I feel it is appropriate to very politely make mention of inappropriate behavior. If too offensive, then hotel management should step up.

I have HOT wife & kiss her ALL the time in public. On planes, airport lounges, hotel clubs, etc.

Not about to stop either (-;

If these kids had driver licenses I would be shocked.

My wife is hot to but I am not mugging down in a club. That would risk my free lifetime suppky of diet coke and goldfish

If these kids had driver licenses I would be shocked....
Under 16? :eek:

And, it sounds like more than mere kissing was involved....

Maybe you should have just told them to "get a room..." Or, would that be "go to your room..."? :p

Maybe you should have just told them to "get a room..." Or, would that be "go to your room..."? :p

Actually, this might've been a good idea. It would sound less like you're a scolding adult, and more like...encouraging them to continue somewhere in private. They probably would've took it better, and it seems that you had more of a problem with them doing whatever they were doing in the club, than the act itself.

I was once making out with a girl in the hallway in high school, and a teacher I was close to called out across the hall, telling us to get a room. I just smiled and said something like "you're just jealous."

But if they were rude or didn't stop after you said something, then you should be annoyed and got staff involved.

That said, I kiss my girlfriend all the time in public. But we don't do anymore than that if we're in public...while people are looking that is ;)

A few kisses is one thing, this was a bit more. They did leave quietly after I politely reminded them that there were families present.

In the end no harm no foul just kids thinking they are entitled to do what they want where they want when they want and getting surprised when someone calls them on it.

Dear MilesBuilder,

I'm sorry you caught me "mugging down" in the club.

Next time I will do it in the hallway.

-BuckleandBoots

Teasing aside, I imagine they were either older than you guess or not suppose to be in the club anyway. In either case, I too would have found hotel staff instead of addressing the issue myself.

Could have just offered to show them where the cold showers were.....

A few kisses is one thing, this was a bit more.

Just why are you so afraid to be specific when it comes to describing their behavior? Was it French kissing, hands up someones pants, or worse? :p

1. Nothing wrong with using your smart phone in the lounge.

2. Even if there was and it bothers you, you are neither an employee of the hotel nor their parent. Speak to a hotel employee if you want.

3. If someone who was not an employee spoke to my kid, I'd have hotel security all over them in a second and demand that they get the boot.

This pretty weird (misunderstanding about PDA aside)

Do you really mean this? That you're the only person allowed to speak to your kids.

If they're in a public place, and you're not around, surely you can't seriously expect people to refrain from speaking to them.

If someone demanded hotel security give me the boot for speaking to their kids, I'd laugh and laugh. And so would the hotel.

This pretty weird (misunderstanding about PDA aside)

Do you really mean this? That you're the only person allowed to speak to your kids.

If they're in a public place, and you're not around, surely you can't seriously expect people to refrain from speaking to them.

If someone demanded hotel security give me the boot for speaking to their kids, I'd laugh and laugh. And so would the hotel.

+1 ^

I am not naming the property unless it gets out of hand

However I did have to politely suggest to some young kids that they should not be PDAing on the couch in the Executive Club. One of them told me it was not my business and they got up and left a few minutes later.

Nothing obscene but much more than a peck on the cheek.

One of the hotel's security guys just walked by to scope me out but said nothing other than hi.

Not sure if they will try to raise a ruckuss or not but regardless, these kids don't need to be making out in the club

If it was my kids I would go nuclear.

Am I right or just old fashion

Are you getting a cold shoulder from your wife lately? Feel the need to share your frustration? :D

PDA in general is obnoxious.

PDA in general is obnoxious.

Yes it is. And so are emotions other than anger.

Is this the grumpy guy thread?

At what age does making out in the Club become acceptable?

This pretty weird (misunderstanding about PDA aside)

Do you really mean this? That you're the only person allowed to speak to your kids.

If they're in a public place, and you're not around, surely you can't seriously expect people to refrain from speaking to them.

If someone demanded hotel security give me the boot for speaking to their kids, I'd laugh and laugh. And so would the hotel.

+1 ^

Man I wonder how this thread would have gone if I had commented about someone sneezing on the crab cakes and rubbing their hands all over the top of the luke warm cokes while handling every piece of silver ware to see which one was straigth enough to leverage the cheesecake slices that they seperated with their other bare hand after just getting out of the hotel gym but before going back to the room to shower.

I just thought kids making out on a couch in the club near families and other adults was not appropriate. I may have been a bit guilty of justifying my judgement as I am pretty sure they either sneaked in as I doubt either one of them traveled enough to have any type of status at Hilton.

I could expand on this further and really light up the boards (YES intentional tease and NO I am not going there) but I will just leave it at if you want to make out while copping a feel either go back to your room or move over on the couch so others can sit there as well. This club had a serious shortage of seats during prime time.

It is interesting reading this thread. I would have agreed with the OP here a year ago, but I've spent the better half of this last year in South America and when I first arrived there i caught myself thinking in my head "oh they need to get a room!!!" so many times but I soon realized it was the culture.

Now getting to live in both pro-PDA and anti-PDA countries, i feel I've come to appreciate PDA and have no more issues with it and now when I feel the need to kiss my significant other, it doesn't matter the time or place. IMHO

I'm going to close it and offer the OP (or anyone) to open a more general thread if they choose somewhere else.

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