Chronicles of Dave

It’s  great movie you should see sometime but that’s not really what I’m talking about here.

As you know if you’ve been following along, our family has been basically vagabonds since selling our old house and waiting for our new Portland house to be available to move into. We’ve spend time in various places and Memorial Day weekend we were at an Embassy Suites in Irvine, CA. We love Embassy Suites and we stay there whenever we can. We are Hilton Hhoners members at the Silver level. Don’t get too excited, it doesn’t get us squat but it sounds nice.

On this fair weekend, there was a massive youth baseball tournament going on in Orange County and hundreds of these baseball kids were staying at the E.S. The hotel was pretty much overrun with 10-12yr old boys and girls. It might have been ok if not for the fact that these were some of the most misbehaved kids I have ever seen and their parents, completely out to lunch. Kids were running around the hotel, going up and down elevators constantly and generally making far too much noise. I would have expected their parents to reign them in a little, enforce at least a modicum of reasonable public behavior. But some of the parents were as loud and obnoxious as their kids.

At one point there were around 10 girls sitting directly outside our room door having a loud and boisterous conversation. Just sitting outside our door. That’s when I finally picked up the phone and called downstairs. I’m trying t0 have a nice relaxing weekend and these kids are driving me nuts. Add to that all the elevator hijinks, and getting downstairs at times involved waiting up to 10min for an elevator. There are many other little things I could gripe about but these were the big ones. I was never so happy to leave a hotel in my life. I’ll still go to Embassy Suites as they still have by far the most bang for the buck of any hotel chain I know but boy did they drop the ball this past weekend.