Originally Posted by
LHR/MEL/Europe FF
How do you know the photo was taken during working hours? There are barely any cars on the street below, not usual daytime traffic for that area.
Once underway during the day there are teams of workers, with drills and jackhammers.
You mention reviews over the last several months, when in reality the only reviews that are applicable are the most recent, where a third or so mention the noise.
I stayed at the property and experienced the noise. In one of those rooms. That’s not a third party report.
However, I can confirm the hotel is taking note of the issue and like the report above, they have given feedback that they are either temporarily closing the rooms, and/or warning prospective upgrades, that the noise can be an issue.
That returns the choice to the guest - to either accept the upgrade, or take a quieter room. That’s the key issue… hotels should have that information available on their website at the time of booking, or in a subsequent email, to give guests the choice.
My issue isn't that there may be some intermittent city "background" construction noise.
It's the absurd assertions and exaggerations by people who haven't stepped foot in the hotel.
A 1/3rd of recent reviews complaining about noise? Nonsense. No, that's too weak. It's a lie. Tripadvisor and Google reviews show nothing of the sort in the last few months. I advise everyone to read them for themselves.
We've had the same person here claiming it's 7 days a week, inescapable and intolerable, and been going on for the better part of a year.
When that's challenged by multiple posters including myself who were actually there during the supposed intolerable noise the goalposts are moved over and over to narrow the period.
The evidence? A photo of a construction site that's been in that state for over a year, and a third hand report from someone claiming to speak with staff, who, oddly for Thais, are ready to disparage their employer's business.
Is everyone else, including recent extended stay guests writing reviews deaf? Am I deaf? Or perhaps we're all liars.
Again, are the hundreds of overwhelmingly positive recent reviews fake, and the low single digit number of reviews mentioning "noise" reflective of the situation? Such a small ratio of complaints to praise are the "noise" one learns to filter out when evaluating.
It's the lack of common sense, logic, and the certainty regarding "7-day a week" "intolerable and inescapable noise" from those amplifying this nonsense that's irritating.