Originally Posted by
britinva79
Spoke with the front desk who let me know that the protesters are banging their buckets and chanting between 10 - 3 (so better than San Fran). The hotel says that occupancy is low so they'll do their best to give me a quiet room. Hoping that is the case, if not may have to move to another hotel. If I didn't have plans for the week I might have chosen a different city altogether with the weekend Gilets Jaunes protests.
I stayed for four nights recently. The protest was initially quite jarring because the drumming is very loud when you exit the front door and you have navigate the sidewalk "gauntlet" between all the protesters in the immediate vicinity. Since we had a courtyard-facing room at the back of the hotel we found it minimally disruptive. We stayed out until after they had left. They do come into the breakfast room at 10 and are allowed to silently protest with cardboard signs. Other than looking out of place they don't really bother anyone in there.
That said, if you are on an American time zone and wanted to sleep in, there is absolutely no way you would be able to sleep through the drumming after it begins at 10am.