Your Best Tips for Sleeping in a Noisy Hotel

[Anonymous]

5 friend couples going to a large touristy European city. 1 couple was in charge of hotel booking. I just looked up reviews and people say it’s impossible to sleep before 2 AM with downstairs discotheque and outside traffic.

It’s a done deal - already paid for and I don’t want to offend anyone by requesting we switch. I want to make the hotel work. I’m a super light sleeper. I’m bringing:

Earplugs
Headphones
White noise machine
Benadryl

Any other tips for surviving a noisy hotel?

[Anonymous]

-Ask for a room on a high floor and on the side opposite the disco.
-Use your iPhone as a noise machine
-Earplugs
-Run the minisplit/fan on constant mode

Also, what time of year are you going? Discos can be seasonal.

[Anonymous]

Ear plugs won’t cut it. You’ll need actual ear defenders. It means you’re sleeping on your back tho. I use them during the summer when we get bad storms and they work really well.

[Anonymous]

Look on Amazon for noise machines that go under your pillow. Easy to travel with and you can make it pretty loud! Or the soft Bluetooth headband speakers. I’ve used both. The headband doubles as an eye mask too.

Not much else you can do for noise.

[Anonymous]

Far away from the elevator as possible, on the top floor. With a white noise machine.

[Anonymous]

Have a good attitude about it. If you ruminate on who booked the hotel, that will keep you awake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5 friend couples going to a large touristy European city. 1 couple was in charge of hotel booking. I just looked up reviews and people say it’s impossible to sleep before 2 AM with downstairs discotheque and outside traffic.

It’s a done deal - already paid for and I don’t want to offend anyone by requesting we switch. I want to make the hotel work. I’m a super light sleeper. I’m bringing:

Earplugs
Headphones
White noise machine
Benadryl

Any other tips for surviving a noisy hotel?

I went to Greece recently and the reviews for my hotel said it was soooo noisy but it wasn't a big deal at all; I just slept with earplugs which I always do anyway.

[Anonymous]

Loop earplugs. Mine are so comfy I sleep in them every night. I love them so much.

[Anonymous]

Walk so much during the day that you are exhausted!

Make sure you know how you react to Benadryl. I take magnesium anyway so I would just keep that up.

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Get Ozlo sleep buds. Game.Changer!

[Anonymous]

Move to a nicer, quieter hotel. Yuck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Move to a nicer, quieter hotel. Yuck.

Honestly, this.
Sleep is important to me and I want to be able to enjoy a vacation.

[Anonymous]

I have had good luck with eye mask that has built in headphones that uses a Bluetooth to play music. Go on Spotify for one of those 8 hour white noise machine playlists. M

I got one on Amazon for $30. I am a very light sleeper and I slept through an entire international flight once (6 hours, they had to wake me up for the descent).

Here is an example. https://a.co/d/0hMmRgAS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loop earplugs. Mine are so comfy I sleep in them every night. I love them so much.

+1 Business traveler here. I have a travel pair of Loops that never come out of my bag. That and a sleep mask can get me through anything.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thank you all so much!