My son hopped into the pool from the side of the deep end. Not a dive, not a leap, just hopped back in after getting out to get something. The front desk attendant came running into the pool room to berate us about following the pool rules and said “this is your first and only warning and the next time I will have you removed from the hotel.”
It was SO aggressive and intimidating, to be threatened with having no place to stay and physical removal from the hotel from one innocent and unintentional rules violation. I felt very unsafe and wanted to leave but could not find another option.
As we went to leave the pool another family came in. I warned the other mom about the aggressive rules enforcement and as we were talking her small child, maybe 3, jumped into the pool. The hotel employee came back and gave the same “I will have you removed line” and as she was talking the child jumped in again, before his mom had time to address the behavior. The employee started SCREAMING at the mom and told them they were kicked out.
My kids and I fled the pool area as she shouted. An hour later there were cop cars, I think the hotel called the cops on a poor mom whose only crime was an excited kid who jumped into the pool.
And, the halls were filthy and smelled like smoke, there is no elevator, and the breakfast was absolutely awful. Minimal options and no water available to drink in the whole hotel.