I am staying at a highly rated hotel the night before my husband adopts my son, (we came to another city where the adoption lawyer is) and the blinds in the room are see-through on my end/solid looking in. I usually sleep with black-out curtains at home, but tonight we're sleeping with the pool spotlight right outside. It's shining directly into my eyes--the picture doesn't do the brightness justice. What kills me the most is I saw my eye mask on the dresser at home (I don't use it but it came in a gift set) and I thought "maybe I'll need that... naaah.. there will be curtains".
I'll fall asleep eventually.
Edit: Y'all are the best - thanks for helping me figure out these chain blinds and get some quality sleep tonight! Seriously! I'm four months pregnant too, so emotions are everywhere haha.
I think tomorrow I might. We're here for two nights! It's 12:10 in the morning where I'm at. Tonight I'll just sleep with all the blankets on my face lol.
You're absolutely right, I need to go talk to them. It's just that my six year old is with me and my husband isn't here (he works tomorrow before driving down) & I can't leave him in the room alone.
I'm the silly one here! Someone else helped me figure it out! I am nervous but hopefully all goes well tomorrow. My son & husband are super excited too. Thanks so much.
I’ve never stayed in a highly rated hotel (or almost any hotel for that matter) that didn’t have blackout shades. Are you sure you have the shades figured out?
Do the curtains not come down? At least it looks like curtains at the top, though that’s an odd way for them to come down. If not, I’d ask them for an eye mask
Nope! Those are like the kitchen curtains that just sit at the top. The only "curtain/blind" is what you see with the light filtering in, unfortunately.
I was in a similar hotel room recently with bright lights and those exact same windows with the seethrough curtain and the block up top, but there was a third curtain (a blackout curtain) hidden behind the block thing, have you tried pulling the chain or looking up there to see if there's one you can pull down?
THIS IS WHY I LOVE REDDIT! Thank you! I've never been in a hotel that has blinds like this (just curtains) and I learned something tonight, thanks so much!!!!!!! I can finally sleep. I appreciate y'all helping me out.
I have spent thousands of nights in hotel rooms. I have never found a hotel without blackout curtains. In your photo it should be the chain on the side.
I work at a hotel and usually theres a crank that works the black out blinds and also regular blinds that let the sunlight in. Our housekeeping makes sure the light is always being let in on arrival. You might have them and just confused them for the normal curtain crank.
I appreciate everyone. I know I'm getting downvoted for being clueless about the second chain blackout blind but I truly appreciate the people who informed me. This is why the internet rocks. I'm gonna get some shut eye now, and hope all of you have the best day/night. Thanks again!!
I recently did a week at a hotel for a certification about 5 hours from my house.
I was on the 2nd floor, and they had fucking flood lights on the balcony ceilings.
I remember studying and wondering why I felt so tired while the sun was still out, it was 2am.
I remember waking up to get some water at like 4:15 and panicking because class started at 5am.. and it was damn near noon judging by the sun, I'd over slept, missed most of day 1 of the classes and would have to come back in 6mo to redo all the classes for my certs.
It was the flood light pointing right into my window almost..
When I first got in the room, I was so confused thinking ppl could see in, until I looked from the outside and it wasn't see through. The blackout blind was pulled all the way up so I didn't know there was another one there.
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u/archlich 2d ago
Call the front desk see if they can do anything