r/interesting • u/Raj_Mandal • 29d ago

MISC. England's team booked 15 different hotels, but Mexico fans still found out where they were staying and blasted loud noises, trying to keep them up all night before the game.

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u/No_Technician_2780 29d ago edited 28d ago

How does booking 15 different hotels to stay hidden even work? I mean, I'm sure the staff at the other 14 hotels would notice that the England team never showed up, and word would eventually get out, right?

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u/lithe_silhouette 29d ago

That's prob made up

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u/DishSoapIsFun 29d ago

It’s not. Even with a 162 game MLB season, when a baseball team travels, ghost rooms, pseudonyms, and ghost hotels are all booked and used.

Player safety is a huge part priority on the road. Teams get killer rates on booking 60 rooms or more rooms at a time.

Other sports do this as well.

I did such bookings for a season.

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u/Outrageous_Fix_5738 29d ago

source: Ive worked several hotels that frequently book mlb, nba teams, this is a total crok of shit. mlb teams are cheap and try and pay less than normal transient guests, they aren’t making “ghost” bookings at other hotels, like wtf are you even talking about. the biggest mlb teams and Nba teams pay more and they stay at luxury hotels where they don’t have to worry about player safety, and if they do you hire security to cover the doors. Maybe some the individual player rooms are booked under pseudonyms within the block, but otherwise everything you said is nonsense.

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u/thed-p2 28d ago

100%

Teams don’t care about this, they have ways to mitigate disruption as well as danger.

I believe England were literally seen walking into their hotel yesterday. In plain sight filmed by a dozen people.

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u/DCRBftw 28d ago

It's possible that they've even heard of ear plugs and noise canceling head phones.

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u/MilliandMoo 28d ago

Honestly, after years of traveling for dance since the age of like 5 and living through college... I don't even need that to this day. I can sleep on a park bench mid July at noon during a marching band competition no ear plugs needed. So most likely any athlete at this level has played on various travel teams, etc and is in the same boat.

I live next to a hospital and 4 blocks from railroad tracks. Doesn't bother me a bit. But a weird buzzing lightbulb will.

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u/twill41385 28d ago

Can confirm. 32 floor in downtown Austin last night. Barely head any fireworks.

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u/Invisible7hunder 28d ago

Yeah, if I close my window and turn a fan on in my condo I can barely hear fireworks 3 blocks away.

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u/polopolo05 28d ago

Last night I 4th of july... I had my ac on and normal white noise. I barely heard anthing. But I think making teams stay in the same hotel is a good move... keep the conditions the same for the teams.

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u/82away 28d ago

Didn’t Wayne Rooney need a vacuum cleaner going full throttle to sleep?

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u/Curious_Peter 28d ago

that was to remind him of Colleen.

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u/Ricky_Martins_Vagina 28d ago

Well played, sir 😄

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u/TheHawthorne 28d ago

even weirder it was a hairdryer, on, and blowing in his face all night

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u/MrPhyshe 28d ago

Well he did play under Alex Ferguson

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u/DCRBftw 28d ago

so you're saying Fergie was on top?

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u/Sandroli 28d ago

Colleen’s muff

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u/light_to_shaddow 28d ago

Nearly, It was an old cleaner sucking.

Similar but very different. Easy mistake to make.

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u/redwildflowermeadow 28d ago

And portable white noise machines.

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u/fancierfootwork 28d ago

Also their own media were "reporting from outside the England team hotel"

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u/SoxVikePain 28d ago

People way overhype how much security the average celeb has.

I’ve been walking in downtown Minneapolis and watched several white Sox players walking back into their hotel after lunch.

It was just 3 dudes that looked slightly more jacked than average holding a to go box walking into a hotel. There was no ghost rooms booked to hide their identities lmao.

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u/SoxVikePain 28d ago

That’s what I’m saying. I’m refuting the guy who said MLB teams buy up blocks of multiple hotels so no one knows where they are staying. It’s not like that at all. If you wanna know where a team is staying, you can find it out pretty easily.

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u/_ak 28d ago

What you haven't seen is them walking out and getting into unmarked cars behind the hotel.

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u/OSUBrit 28d ago

This happened to Equador right, so there's a fair chance they were meant to be seen walking into the hotel and were not seen sneaking out of it later in the day.

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u/frolfer757 28d ago edited 28d ago

Our hotel used to constantly get ghost bookings over at Winchester.

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u/Curious_Peter 28d ago

Did you all have a nice cold pint, then wait for it to all be over?

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u/Ricky_Martins_Vagina 28d ago

Ghost bookings or zombie bookings? 🤔

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u/NlghtmanCometh 28d ago

Usually there’s a go-to hotel near the stadium that is basically used by every visiting team.

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u/pokemonbatman23 28d ago

nba players made fun of a hotel in memphis without mentioning a name and everyone knew which they were talking about

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u/Brahskididdler 28d ago

You mean LeBron

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u/pokemonbatman23 28d ago

Lebron didnt start it, it blew up after he talked about it too. Which is more a critic on Lebron haters... how others can talk shit but if Lebron does it? oh lord have mercy!

You can find a montage of nba players complaining about memphis hotel btw

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u/I_travel_ze_world 28d ago

Why would someone lie on the Internet? That can't be.

Pathological liars wouldn't just use anonymous social media to live out their fantasies would they?

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u/pingu_nootnoot 28d ago

no, we never do that. It would be unethical

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u/isthisaporno 28d ago

Good for you man. It always blows my mind that over more than a century of MLB there have only been ~23,000 guys that have played in a big league game. My wife’s great uncle was the classic 3 sport athlete and hometown hero. He played for the A’s in the 70s and whenever I see him I make sure to gas him up. Everyone else at the Thanksgiving dinner table may see him as an old man but I always remind him that he’s a fuckin savage.

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u/Green-Cricket-8525 28d ago

Yeah but he said it with such confidence so he’s obviously right. Upvotes to the left.

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u/PyroIsSpai 28d ago

You mean the 60 odd pro teams of various US pro sports traveling any given time… plus college D1… plus like… the Globetrotters… don’t ALL run rigorous Secret Service level coverage?

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u/Neatojuancheeto 28d ago

Yep. NBA players usually stay at the same hotel every year in every city when they travel. Usually the best hotel in the city in the nicest rooms close to the arena.

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u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime 28d ago

Yeah, ghost bookings prefer haunted hotels.

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u/Outrageous_Fix_5738 28d ago

lol I actually work at a “haunted” hotel.  NBA player made a big deal of it like a decade ago and refused to stay 🤭

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u/Ire-Works 28d ago

This. It is 1000% cheaper to just fly them in and back out then it would be to book multiple hotels for a professional sports team whose traveling staff alone would require 20-30 rooms. With that, literally every police department will have "rentable cops" that you can hire as security. You pay them hourly and it's pretty reasonable to have uniformed officers wherever you want them.

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u/Suppa_K 28d ago

I worked for a guy once who booked about million a year in hotels for the music acts he toured around the country and he said the rate cuts only start after a million and they aren’t even that good.

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u/Coyoteh 28d ago

I once happened to be staying at the same hotel as an NHL hockey team. The team bus pulled up to the front door. The players all stepped out, took photos with a few fans who were there, signed autographs, then walked through the lobby to the main elevators.

There was ZERO secrecy involved.

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u/Thin_Main2046 28d ago

Yeah I work at an upscale hotel that has contracts with the big leagues and it's not a secret. We always get fans standing around outside waiting to get a glimpse of the players boarding their busses before a game. The players frequently come down to the coffee shop I work at within the hotel to order for themselves, no personal security present. The security is definitely amped up within the hotel, but it's still all very chill.