FTers can be so insensitive. Some comments are so insensitive that I just have to rant! Sorry!
Originally Posted by
craigthemif
I'm sorry that you felt unsafe. Maybe international travel isn't for you, especially to countries where you think the police are the bad guys. You wouldn't be the first person whose image of Mexicans is based on "narcos" movies and television. The job of the tourist police is very much to take care of situations where a tourist feels unsafe.
At an all-inclusive hotel, however, the most obvious explanation is that another guest had too much to drink and got confused when looking for their room. It happens. Probably a significant number of FTers have stayed in so many hotels that they forget their room number after a few drinks. I certainly did back in the day...
If guests are terrorizing another guests, it is hotel's responsibility to escort the drunk guests back to their room. If the guests next room is party too hard, it's hotel's responsibility to remedy the situation. Yes, tourist policy is suppose to keep the tourist safe. If they are so wonderful, why won't the hotel call them for her? And she should give up international travels because she feared for her life in a luxury secured hotel with managements refused to help her?
BTW, I have had other guests trying to get into my hotel room, just one. It wasn't the safest feeling. You, in your "back in the day" self, might think nothing of trying to break into other people's room. It is huge truma to be awaken up by someone trying to break into your room especially if they refused to leave. Fortunately, in my case the front desk/management took care of the situation right away. Fortunately, I was not in a country where the police is famously corrupt.
Originally Posted by
antonius66
This story is lacking so many details and necessary pieces of information for clarity and frankly, credulity. It reads very agitated and hyperbolic without a lot of necessary contextual details. I'm not saying there was not an incident of any type or that it is all fabricated or anything like that, but the paper thin suggestions and implications that effectively a violent bloody incident transpired which was connected to an attempted burglary of the room was completely and utterly ignored and dismissed out of hand by hyatt and the hotel staff despite multiple cries for help strain belief. Numerous questions are present in this account and honestly, based on how it was conveyed, I'm not surprised at the idea that hysteria was suggested, correctly or not.
Lacking details? This is the standard FT BS. If you can't help just stay on the sideline; don't make things worse. Not surprised hysteria was suggested? What do you want? Do you want her to describe which furnitures she used to block the door or do you want the front desk phone numbers she called? Do you want the actual room number she was in? I am a female travel. I am disturbed by her account. I don't need anymore details. That is one hotel I won't be staying for a "Girl Friend" trip.
Originally Posted by
coleslaw
My response to anyone in this situation - regardless of their gender - would be the same. Call the police.
Really police!!! In Mexico, where every police expects a bribe? How is she supposed to know it's 911 she is to call? I am sure, from here forward, OP will be looking up emergency number for every country she visits. What if the 911 operator does not speak English. Personally I would start open up my windows and scream at the top of my lungs and bang anything I can find to wake up all the neighbors. It the hotel won't help, maybe the guests next door will. Oh, No. Some might think it was just hysteria.