Quiet hours sign

When to use

Post the quiet-hours sign where the noise actually starts: the living room, the back door to a deck, or the hallway in a condo with shared walls. {quiet_hours} is copied from the listing. If you want longer hours than you published, change the listing before the next guest, and print the new hours after that. The current guest sees the hours they already accepted.

{quiet_means} is the sentence that fits this building. A cabin on acreage might say “voices on the porch stay at a talking level.” A condo might say “no gatherings in the hallway, and no bass through the party wall.” {outdoor_rule} covers the balcony, the hot tub, or the yard. Untick and strike it if there is no outdoor space. {thread_note} tells them where to write if a neighbor knocks, which should be the booking thread, not a phone number you do not want posted on paper.

The noise sign generator makes a printable quiet-hours sign in the browser from the hours you enter. Use it when you want that layout. Use this text when you need the extra lines about what quiet means here. Either way, {property_name} should be the home the sign hangs in.

Timing tip

Print it before the first weekend, which is when quiet hours get tested. Replace it if {quiet_hours} change with the season. Some hosts use shorter quiet hours in winter and longer ones when windows are open. The listing and the sign have to move together. A summer sign left up in November is how you enforce a rule you no longer publish.

Put it up at eye level. A sign above a door frame is decoration. A sign beside the speaker or the deck door is a sign. If you host in a place where the city posts its own hours, do not let the two posters disagree. {quiet_hours} can be the stricter of the two only if the listing already said that.

Check it at turnover. Guests take signs down to fit a suitcase on the table. The next group then has no hours in the room, only the listing they are not rereading.

Common mistakes

All-caps scolding is the first one. The title is “Quiet hours,” in sentence case, because a shout on the wall sets a tone you will fight all weekend. {quiet_means} can be firm without being an insult. “No parties” belongs on the general rules if it is a standing rule. This sign is about hours and sound.

The second is a sign that adds a fine. A dollar amount on the wall, introduced after booking, is a new charge. Leave money off the paper. If a listed fee exists in the price terms, the listing is where it was disclosed. Do not reprint it here as a surprise.

The third is hours you will not act on. If {quiet_hours} start at 9 and you only write guests when a neighbor complains at midnight, the sign is theater. Either mean the hours or publish the hours you mean. The noise-concern message is how you follow up on a night that breaks the sign. The sign is the warning that makes that message fair.

What “quiet” needs to say

People disagree about quiet. {quiet_means} should mention the sound that causes your complaints: shoes on the stairs, a balcony speaker, a sliding door. One specific sentence prevents a debate about whether conversation is allowed. Conversation is allowed. A speaker that carries lyrics into the next unit is the problem you should name if that is the problem you have.

{thread_note} can read “If a neighbor contacts you, tell them to leave it, and write to me in the booking thread.” That keeps guests from opening a door to a stranger at midnight, and it keeps you in the loop. Edit it if your building has a front desk you trust. Do not print a personal phone number on a sign that visitors photograph.