Thursday, July 29, 2021

The Ghosts of the Noisy Hasids

Last night we stayed in a Home2Suites in Easton, PA. Coming into the room, we all had a vivid flashback to an almost identical room in Lancaster, PA where we stayed back over spring break when we were visiting Franklin & Marshall.

It also started out so innocently. We picked out an appealing looking pizza place from which to order dinner, then we want into town to check it out and walked around. When we got back to the room and were having our dinner -- including an amazing eggplant, peppers and onions calzone, I'll have you know -- we heard some no so gentle sounds coming from upstairs. Sounded like a bunch of kids bouncing around. It was early in the evening, we figured it would die back later.

It did not. We called down to the front desk. It seemed there was a Hasid wedding going on and there was much frolicking. They had pretty much the whole top floor of the hotel. We weren't the only ones to have let them know. I was watching some really stupid action movie (how Mary let me get away with that I don't know) but it didn't really drown out the noise. The desk staff were pretty flustered by it all. At around 10:30 I went downstairs for something else, maybe some cookies or a Perrier. A couple of Hasid dudes where carrying in enormous aluminum trays of food. Again, not good.

It kept going right up until midnight. Eventually I asked the staff if they could find us another room. They did. It was much quieter and we were able to sleep.

Here in Easton we are on the top floor and there have been no issues.

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