Book a room with as few neighbours as possible
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- Aparna Patel
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- 20 Jul, 2023
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Very location and budget dependent.
In resort areas, i.e. tourist destinations outside of cities, you can often find cabin/chalet based hotels, where your immediate neighbors are separated by a garden with gaps of 5-10m.
That should be enough to keep out most noises, unless you get exceptionally unlucky with your fellow guests. Not cheap.
A modern hotel will almost certainly have been built with proper soundproofing, such as staggered studs and acoustic insulation panels. The primary sources of noise will be through the door to the hallway (people walking to/from their rooms, or potentially even just hanging out in the hall), and the windows (traffic/sirens/etc).
When you book, and when you check in, specifically request a room at the end of a hall (to minimize hallway noise) and on an upper floor (to minimize traffic noise). This may require you to pick a higher price-point room. Say that you want as quiet a room as possible. They know their hotel.
And if you do encounter an unwanted level of noise, call the front desk and ask to be moved to a different room. (Be specific about what you want. Don’t ask "can you do something about the noise", because they’ll hear that as "Do something about those people, I’m not willing to move".) If it’s the late evening by then, they’ll be in an optimal situation to help you, because they’ll know which available rooms are surrounded by unoccupied rooms, and because they’ve got a lot more leeway to upgrade you in response to a nuisance than they are for checkin-time whims.
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Is there any specific filter at Booking.com or AirB&B or any other booking service that would allow me to search properties sorted or filtered by the total number of rooms?
No. It’s too difficult to define what exactly "number of rooms" mean: on the same floor, on the same apartment, guest rooms in an entire hotel, rooms rented out by the same AirBnB host, in the entire building, etc.
Even if there was a filter, it wouldn’t help you. Your problem is primarily about behavior and construction quality, not room layout. It only takes one bad neighbor.
I can work without any problems in non-human sounds like machines or nature.
That’s a thing you can leverage. My first line of defense against unwanted sound are noise cancelling earbuds or headset. Not only do they reduce any external noise drastically (if you have good ones), you can also mask any residual sounds with whatever you find pleasant or relaxing: music, pink noise, nature sounds, the voice James Earl Jones, etc.
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