Hotels Take Proactive Steps to Keep The Noise Down
Nov 3rd, 2007 by the wrw
The AmericInn hotel hotel chain is touting their AmericInn SoundGuard™ construction is the first of it’s kind in the hospitality industry. AmericInn proclaims in their press release, that their “room environments have been scientifically proven to be significantly quieter than others in the industry.”
While I can’t speak to ever having stayed at an AmericInn property, I would say that I applaud them for effort to construct their hotels to be as soundproof as possible. I echo the sentiments expressed in a 2007 National Business Traveler Monitor study AmericInn cities in their press release that states “a quiet room is becoming of high importance to travelers”. But my question is, one has it every not been important to business travelers, let along leisure travelers to not have a quiet room.
I know in every room that I stay in I always request to be as on high as a floor as possible, and that my room be as far away from the elevators, or any other high traffic public areas of the hotel. Soundproof construction or not, I know there is not much that can be done to deafen the noise generated by group of rowdy conventioneers, coming home from the bars as they spill out of the elevator and to trying to remember their room numbers. The best sound proofing technology in my opinion is avoidance of sound.
The Roger William, Madison and 31st in NYC is a good small hotel - but you have to be on an upper floor! Otherwise, the trash removal will wake you up -