A friend recently lamented this his frequent work travel interferes with his ability to practice singing. After all, hotel rooms have thin walls. It brought to mind a story from my college years.
This was my reply:
That’s such a bummer. I recall in college, living in the dorms, was a similar situation. I lived in a high-rise dorm. There were two towers with a small building in between that served as the public lounge for both towers. From the ground level, they appeared to not be connected, but there was an underground passageway connecting all three buildings. The lounge closed at a certain time each night, and the exterior doors locked, but I’d planned ahead, gone to the basement and propped the door to the passageway open from inside the lounge. That night, after the lounge closed, I crossed from my dorm tower into the lounge, which, since it was closed, had zero people in it – but it also had a piano in the center that no one ever played (because people mostly studied there.) I had the place to myself and practiced for a couple hours until campus security popped in, scared the crap out of me, and I thought for sure I was busted and would be escorted back to my tower, but, no, he asked if that was Mozart I was playing. 😂!!!
Then he left me in peace. He may have asked if I got in through the tunnel, but if he did he just asked me to make sure I secured the door when I was done. He didn’t kick me out.
So maybe try booking hotels with vacant spaces far away from the guest rooms, ideally with a piano, that you can sneak into at night?