Pack earplugs – Top 7 noisiest cities for vacation travelers
Surprise hotels in New York City actually have fewer complaints about noise than beach front towns like Santa Monica and Monterey. The the cities below had the highest percentage of complaints about noise based on comments found inside of online hotel reviews.
Pack your ear plugs – The top 7 noisiest U.S. cities.
7. Honolulu, Hawaii: So much for the island getaway – 5.4% of hotel reviews in Honolulu contained complaints about room noise.
6. Miami Beach, FL- Apparently the South Beach night life was a bit too much for over 5.8% of travelers.
5. New York City -NYC – The big apple was #1 in terms of the total number of complaints about room noise. However, on a per review basis 5.9% of all hotel reviews contained complaints about noise.
4. San Francisco, CA –Move over NYC, San Fran is the noisiest big city for travelers. Over 6.4% of reviews about hotels in San Francisco contain complaints about room noise. Let the coastal rivalry begin.
3. Anaheim, CA – 6.5% apparently “quiet as a mouse” doesn’t apply to the home of Disney Land.
2. Monterey, CA – 7.5% – I wonder what John Steinbeck’s Trip Advisor review of a hotel in Cannery Row would have said had he been kept up all night?
1. Santa Monica, CA –7.79% of reviews contained complaints about noise making it the noisiest city in the U.S. for leisure travelers.
It appears that being in a hotel near a beach or the ocean is a bigger threat to peace and quiet than being in a hotel in a major city. I suppose one explanation could be that skyscrapers can rise above the noise while the smaller hotels located on the beach don’t have that privilege.
