Originally Posted by
discountsae
I was at a hotel last weekend that hade a false alarm. I happened to be in the lobby at the time. I was amazed at the number of phone calls that the front desk was receiving from rooms inquiring if the alarm was real. It seems like the people making the calls were wasting precious seconds if it were a real emergency.
I stayed at the Grand Californian (Disney owned/operated resort) at Disneyland a few years back, one time in the middle of the night the alarm went off, we were kind of slow waking up due to coming from the East Coast previously in the day but got out anyway in a timely fashion. Turned out to be a false alarm (reason never given). Funnily enough the next day there were people at the front desk demanding compensation. I'll take a false alarm anyday over dying.