Getting frustrated

[Luckypierre05]

I could really do with some help or suggestions, I’ve been here for a few years now and so want to contribute, I’ve stayed in hotels and walked the corridors in a hope I will catch something to record but nothing more than Han snoring. Went camping and stayed up most of the night in the hope I would find some action. But all came to nothing ( no pun intended lol) so please someone give me some pointers cos this is killing me.
Thanks

[gibevad]

Great you want to contribute! I can’t speak for hotels really, but I think a lot of it is just luck and where you live (in terms of property type and the people living around you). If it helps, this is a list of all the places I have overheard sex:

1. Our neighbour when I was young. My best friend lived next door. It was a cheap property so the walls were paper thin. His Mum’s bedroom adjoined mine. She was a single Mum. Several kids, all by different fathers. She was constantly getting fucked and she was quite vocal. She would really squeal if her kids weren’t home/playing outside. She almost always had the window open. I could smell the sex sometimes. Especially the long summer night sessions. She kicked off my fascination with overheard sex sounds. The best quality stuff I have heard. It was like I was in the room. I wish I had recorded it.

2. A grotty houseshare in Leeds. Similar to the above. A single mother whose bedroom adjoined mine. Very sexually active. Very vocal.

3. A hotel in Barcelona. The only time I have ever heard something in a hotel and this was only once over a three day stay. It was a cheap two star place that was falling apart. A younger couple next door. Loud, drunken sex.

4. My current flat. This is a converted house and the soundproofing is non-existent. The bedroom of the flat below is directly under my bedroom. The windows are about three or four feet apart. Easy to capture good audio when both are open. Both sets of neighbours in the flat below have been vocal. The first pair were a young lesbian couple, and the second is a middle afed guy whose girlfriend comes round for visits. No children. Confident, almost brash, women.

So, from my experience you have cheap, densely packed properties and a certain type of neighbour. Single Mums or couples with no children. I also think more confident/relaxed people are likely to have noisier sex. They are less likely to care who hears them, so they make little or no effort to be quiet.

Obviously this is just my experience, but I have been in posher, detached places and I have not heard a squeak. Same goes for higher class hotels. Better soundproofing maybe?

So, if I was you, I would stay in a cheap hotel, sit at the bar and maybe look for couples who meet that description. Again this is my experience. Somebody else might have a completely different take and the above might be more of a reflection of my experiences and my lower working class life/upbringing. I honestly think a huge part of it is luck. If I lived above a 99 year old woman, I doubt I would have many posts here!

I hope that helps. Good luck!

[gibevad]

Forgot to mention, I heard nothing at university either. Four years of silence. I think people try to be quiet if they think there is a chance they can be heard. Hotels perhaps encourage a similar attitude. Maybe try to get home recordings. What is your current living situation?

[Luckypierre05]

Thanks for the advice, like the idea of sitting and watching at the bar. Great advice thanks

[PrivateN]

The chances of randomly overhearing something are pretty slim. Although lots of couple have sex in hotels, you'd need to be outside the right room at the right time, at the right hotel (with bad soundproofing) and encounter the right couple. Most couples will try to be quieter than normal when having sex in a "public" setting (hotel room, camping, shared apartment, etc), so you need to come across someone who don't mind making noise, or lose themselves in the moment.

Realistically, the noisiest part of a sexual encounter will last only about five minutes, so even if someone is having sex in every room of a hotel floor during a given day, and they all make enough noise to be heard, you're still unlikely to be outside the right room at the right time.

In all my time in hotels, even when I used to travel a fair amount for work, I've never once heard the sounds of sex from another room. Same goes for my time living with roommates, during university, etc.

I'm in my 40s now, and I've only heard the sounds of sexual activity twice in the wild. Once was almost 20 years ago, I heard faint sounds of the girl next door masturbating through our shared wall. The second time was in broad daylight, my neighbors in the house next to ours were having sex with the window open.

Places like this will make it seem like this stuff happens all the time to everyone else, but unless you *really* go hunting (which could easily make you look pretty creepy), or you find yourself in a very sexually charged setting (like a college dorm, where hormones and partying will do their thing), you're not going to get lucky all that often.

[Paul7979]

I agree with all this!

[Luckypierre05]

Fabulous feedback thanks. I suppose the answer is keeping looking and waiting. And keep and eye for the right couple. Thanks let’s hope the future brings some more luck.

[Wombfiller]

Stayed in a Travelodge this year on the Saturday night before Valentines Day. Prime time of year.

Heard a few rooms with couples going at it at various times:
One couple mid afternoon around 3.30pm, probably soon after checking in on the far side of the hotel.
Second couple on my floor in a room on the other side of the corridor around midnight.
Third couple in the room almost opposite mine at around 1am.

The thing to watch for was the night porter who seemed to be carrying out corridor patrols at least every hour or so, so had to be very careful.

[gibevad]

I do think you have to be lucky to hear authentic stuff. It is especially difficult in hotels I imagine. I think the odds are just against you to hear it by chance, unfortunately.

[AdamMK0147]

the best way to honestly tell if a couple is having sex in their room is to listen for loud tv sounds or loud music that would give off a Red Alert knowing there is something going on behind the door usually happens at night during the hours of 6:00pm and 12:00am and 4:00am

this is when housekeeping would of had gone off by then which makes it a lot easier to roam the floors without looking suspicious the only bad thing is that their may be one or two that comes in and out of the employee doors delivering towels and goods to certain rooms so try and avoid that if you but the floors becomes quiet after Midnight so the only thing you'd have to worry about really is people coming and out of the elevators and those coming out of their rooms to go downstairs to eat or those heading towards the ice machine.

Speaking of ice machines those suckers are pretty loud and annoying and makes it difficult to hear anything especially if you are near a room that has a couple having sex in it which some ice makers has a vending machine next to it with a security camera above it so if your planning on pulling the plug on the machine then God's speed to you to make the guest floor more quieter.

[listen48]

Yes i am afraid it is about being in the right place at the right time. I am late 60s and have heard couples on a few occasions. Ironically looking back it was when it was not possible to record on a phone. The most likely times are late after a night out or very early. Having said that i did wake up for a pee once in a night and the girl next door was very loud. Made even more erotic by having talked to the couple that evening. So my imagination was running wild. On the few occasions i do hear it i just go weak in the knees. The though that there is this slim brick wall that is seperating you and them. If it was not there you could hold her hand.

[Fanatic]

Book a room at an older Bed and Breakfast (old large creaky house) on Valentines day or vacation spot.

[Stott13]

The big issue with modern American hotels now is the rooms are modular cement vaults. Barely any sound can leak into the next room. You would have to be at an old Bed & Breakfast or a really old wooden lodge to get reasonable captures.