Mèo Đen wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2017 12:57 pm
To the OP don't make the mistake many low budget travelers make, and stating this I am not inferring you are of this ilk.
Just made that mistake. Rolled the dice on a cheap hotel that apparently serves as budget accommodation for locals in the evening (or something). When the families come and go, their kids run up and down the stairs like a bag of bricks shouting at the top of their lungs, the adults follow chatting away loudly. This goes on for an hour or more. They don't close their doors. They congregate in the hallways.
Then during the day there's the cleaning staff who shout angrily (apparently friendly shouting) at each other up and down the stair wells and wander around the building with their radios cranked up to 11.
And also the guy in the cafe or on a bus having an angry (read: friendly) conversation on speaker phone, or playing games and watching videos with the volume turned up to 11 to share the wonderful sound with everyone.
I honestly wonder if the lack of consideration for others is deliberate. It certainly is with driving, at least in Vietnam: They rarely look when they pull out because if they look they might have to stop.
I'm bias of course, but I do think Westerns show more consideration and would chastise children for screaming at the top of their lungs. Of course there are occasional chavs and bogans who can be noisy and uncouth. Most Americans on the other hand don't have passports and generally only the rich/educated can afford to travel so they're not a problem IME.