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This Wasn’t Hospitality. It Was the Hotel Version of a Welfare Check.


⟡ No Sleep. No Door Lock. No Escape. ⟡

Filed: 6 December 2023, 00:43 GMT
Reference: SWANK/HOTEL/2023-HOLIDAYINN-MIDNIGHT-DISTURBANCE
📎 Download PDF — 2023-12-06_SWANK_HolidayInn_SecurityHarassment_LiveEmail_NoSleep_NoEscape.pdf

I. The Email Was Sent While They Were Still Outside the Door.

This is not reflection.
This is real-time evidence, composed in the haze of interrupted sleep and procedural violation — written by a mother documenting institutional aggression before the door even cooled.

It captures:

  • The child, startled and silent

  • The knock, loud and unexplained

  • The corridor, suddenly militarised with suspicion

  • The guest, trying to recall what she had done wrong. (She hadn’t.)

This isn’t drama.
This is what happens when “hospitality” turns into surveillance with a badge and no warrant.

II. The Scene, As They Pretended It Didn’t Happen

There was no loud music.
No social gathering.
No shouting.
Just:

  • Sleep

  • A child

  • A woman recovering from state violence

  • And a security team with a keycard and too much confidence

The email, sent in the dark, captures the shaken dignity of documentation under siege.

III. Why SWANK Filed It

Because when trauma survivors are disturbed without cause, they write before they cry.
Because the hotel industry does not get to cloak harassment in “policy.”
Because if they knock at midnight without reason, they should expect to be archived before breakfast.

Let the record show:

  • The guest did nothing wrong

  • The accusation was never substantiated

  • The complaint was written immediately

  • And SWANK — published it in full

IV. SWANK’s Position

We do not consider door-banging to be a neutral act.
We do not permit hotel staff to invent suspicion and expect silence.
We do not accept any justification for nocturnal intimidation of sleeping women and children.

Let the record show:

They had the key.
We had the timestamp.
And now — we have the archive.

This is not an overreaction.
It is the reality of procedural violence with a room number.




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