ShareThisQ: What do you do if the couple in the hotel room next to yours are getting amorous at high volume and keeping you awake?
A: Call the front desk and let them deal with it. I'm sure it's one of the hotel manager's least favorite parts of his job, but it is part of his job. And if you're bothered by what you're hearing, you don't want to knock on their door -- if they open it, you might see something that would scar you for life.
Q: There was a guy clipping his nails at the pool on my cruise last week. I was disgusted -- he left clippings all over the place. I was taught that personal grooming shouldn't be done in public. Have the rules changed?
A: The rules haven't changed, but unfortunately, fewer people are following them. So let's make it clear. The only personal grooming that's acceptable at the pool is sunscreen application. Anything else -- cutting your nails, brushing or flossing your teeth, tweezing your eyebrows, putting alcohol on your crusty navel piercing -- needs to be done in private, not poolside.
Q: I went to Las Vegas with friends for a bachelorette party, and someone took a bunch of pictures while we were rather inebriated. She posted them on Facebook and tagged me in them. A lot of my work colleagues are my friends on Facebook ... so of course they saw the pictures. I'm completely embarrassed, and really mad at my friend. Shouldn't she have kept the photos off Facebook, or at least asked me before posting them?
A: Yes. While it's extremely amusing to have pictures of a dear friend in an embarrassing situation (and really, is there anything about a bachelorette party in Las Vegas that's not potentially embarrassing?), it's extremely uncool to make them public without that person's consent. Which includes posting them on Facebook. However, while it's annoying your friend did that, and even more so that she tagged you in them, you need to take some responsibility here, too.
Go to Facebook right now and change your privacy settings so your friends don't get notified when someone tags you in a picture. (Actually, everybody should do that. Go right now. I'll wait.) And finally, remember that "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" is just a catchy marketing slogan -- if someone's got a camera, the embarrassing stuff you did will follow you home whether you like it or not.
(E-mail travel-etiquette questions to Lesley Carlin at deartripadvisor(at)tripadvisor.com.)
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I think that if you try to
I think that if you try to disturb a couple getting amorous at high volume you might get two possible reactions: 1. No reaction at all - you will go back to your room and become angry. 2. They gonna kill you because you have interrupted their session.