Why do you never hear the people above you in a hotel room, but in an apartment it sounds like elephants stampeding overhead when neighbors make noise?

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Why do you never hear the people above you in a hotel room, but in an apartment it sounds like elephants stampeding overhead when neighbors make noise?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

The hotel probably used concrete between the floors, not wood.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Hotels would like to attract business back. They don’t lock you into a year of tenancy, and so if you have a bad experience with noise you’re less likely to go back.

Also hotels have the money to build to a higher standard. You have probably at least 2 rooms for every 1 small apartment in an equivalent apartment building, and every room is full and generating say $130 a night, those same 2 rooms are generating nearly 8 grand a month. A small apartment the size of two hotel rooms even in NYC probably isn’t running you anywhere near that.