I think there’s a fair amount of truth to this. Really the only reasonably quiet bars in America that I’ve been to (which is a decent amount, I happen to like b

I think there’s a fair amount of truth to this. Really the only reasonably quiet bars in America that I’ve been to (which is a decent amount, I happen to like both traveling and drinking) are almost always either a hotel bar like the OP references or one of the dimly lit hipster speakeasy style places. Hotels have the downside of often being boring and expensive, and coincidentally the hipster speakeasy bars also often have the same downside. At least you’ll often get a bit more effort into your $25 cocktail when some bearded mixologist is shaking it up at the hipster joint.