Make sure to slam the door to your room repeatedly from the inside (as not to be seen in the hallway) immediately following your wake up call. That will show those kids.
Unlikely. Kids sleep like a rock, especially when they've just been worn out by running up and down the halls until 2 and you're getting up at 5.
The only people you're going to "show" are the other crews who *MIGHT* have just gotten back to sleep and have a 7 or 8 a.m. wakeup call.
Usually the heater/AC in the room if turned on fan will drown out most of the hotel noise. Maybe it just works in the cheap hotels we stay in.
Had the same problem in PHF last week, except it was one of our late arrival F/A's who had either picked up a guy in the bar or one of our pilots. They turned on the TV loud to cover their own noise while going at it on and off for 2 hours. 3 of us went by banging on the door to get them to shut up. After the 2nd time they ignored us.
My favorite revenge is to keep calling them on the hotel room phone every 15 minutes while you're getting ready to remind them how early you said you had to get up, not to mention letting every crew you fly with know the name and employee number of the offending party - it'll eventually get back to her in the crew room that she's now officially known as a Ho and will either quit or won't do it again.
Alternately, if you're next door to the offending room and the room on the other side of you is going out with you on the trip, simply turn your TV to Disney and turn up the volume right before you leave the room.
The only person that bothers is the offending person next door.
A lot of us carry laptops - if we had a GOOD pair of speakers that would produce the right volume and frequency, I wonder if this white noise CD would do the trick:
http://xegan.com/whitenoise/index.htm
Some of us rely on that kind of behavior.
