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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I dislike adjoining rooms because you can always hear more noise from the other room than you can with standard rooms. When we vacation with extended family, certain people push for adjoining rooms and are borderline obsessive about it. We understand rooms on the same floor and we do allow for certain people to request room blocks that are next to one another or across the hall, but there’s always whining and pushback.

What is the point? I’m genuinely trying to understand what’s so great. Who even wants to hang out in rooms? We prefer everyone to be in their own room when they need to, and meet in the lobby, the dining area or just get out of the hotel to spend time together.

(And no, I’m not opposed to spending time together; I even make the point of let’s just get an AirBnB or a rental house to save money and have built-in shared spaces. But they are old-fashioned and don’t “get” AirBnB and insist on hotel.)

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What is interesting here is that you characterize people with different preferences than you as pushy and obsessive.  The reason you have for your preference is that you think you can hear more noise coming from the adjoining room.  Valid, but not overly compelling- particularly when you say you don't spend a lot of time in the room.  Reasons people have for wanting adjoining rooms is less overall hassle and noise for everyone to visit when they don't have to go into the hall with a key and open/close the doors.  Also valid, but not overly-compelling.

You can do what you want and do what you prefer.  Don't have to make this a right/wrong thing and negatively characterize people with other preferences.  They could be calling you obsessive about NOT having adjoining rooms.[/quote]

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