Stayed in Zhang Jia Jie, a small city in Hunan at the Lan Tian Hotel

The problem is that it's a tourist town (I was on biz) so the hotel is full of tourists. They are invaraibly middle-aged Chinese and Korean ladies who, away from home, go a little crazy. At 2am they were still going strong, running up and down the corridor, shouting and screaming, playing mahjong in the rooms with the doors open

I had had enough at this time (the reception did nothing when I complained) so I got up and hammered on the inside of my door with my fist. I hadn't allowed for the fact this was a pretty low grade hotel and I proceeded to put my fist through the panel

Went to sleep and nothing happened for a couple of days. Then the manager visited me and tried to get me to pay for a new door...400 kuai. I then agued with him for half an hour and finally got it down to 40 kuai for a new panel...phew

They did try to sting me for 10 kuai on leaving cos I had split the plastic room card by keeping it in my back pocket and it couldn't be reused...I paid, I didn't have the heart to argue