BTS Lima Hotel Crowds: RM Asks for Sleep and Privacy

“No vayan al hotel” — don't go to the hotel. Before BTS's second Lima concert on October 9, fans were chanting a request their own leader had already made in writing, according to El Comercio's report. The BTS Lima hotel crowds had become part of the tour's story: noise reaching bedrooms, lost sleep, renewed gatherings and reports of lasers aimed at windows.

RM, also known as Namjoon, returned to the subject onstage that night. He explicitly objected to drones and pointing lasers, while asking fans to keep supporting one another across nationalities. His follow-up put the focus where it belongs: the behaviour outside private accommodation, and the fans trying to stop it.

Why the BTS Lima hotel crowds prompted RM's letter

RM's Weverse letter began with excitement about visiting Peru for the first time. He then described people remaining outside the group's accommodation throughout the day, making life difficult for the members and staff. The noise reached their rooms. In Korea JoongAng Daily's English translation, he wrote that “none of us can sleep well.”

He included the other hotel guests in the complaint, extending his concern beyond the touring party. RM thanked fans for the welcome, then explained that insufficient sleep and rest could interfere with the performances they wanted BTS to give. That is the part fans waiting outside should sit with: the glimpse can cost the very show they came for, and the crew still has work to do after the crowd goes home.

The appeal also covered Chile, Brazil, Argentina and later Asian stops. RM asked people to stop staying outside the hotels and hoped for a more mature relationship between BTS and ARMY. He finished with affection, including the Spanish sign-off “Los amo.”

The dates can look confusing in screenshots. Weverse labels the post October 8; Peruvian coverage places the appeal on October 7, before the first Lima concert. The sequence here uses Lima's local dates.

October 8 brought another gathering and laser reports

By the following evening, another crowd had gathered. El Comercio documented congestion and gatherings on October 8 after a waterfront drone tribute. People subsequently gathered around the hotel, with nearby traffic disrupted.

The reports about lights are more specific than a general claim that fans were waving phones. In a separate October 9 report, El Comercio described followers' allegations that unidentified people were aiming lasers at hotel windows. Those are attributed reports about the building, with no member's room named and no injury reported. Whoever did it, aiming a laser at a hotel window is not fandom.

The organised tribute needs its own description. UPI reported BTS Perú Fanclub's account that its drone show took place along the waterfront, away from the hotel, and that it had never encouraged people to gather outside the accommodation. It leaves open who used the reported lasers, and a public waterfront light show is no evidence that its organisers flew drones at private rooms.

Local fans were also trying to draw a boundary. RPP reported apology panels in Spanish and Korean and an ARMY Perú statement calling for preventive planning, coordination with authorities and better pedestrian and traffic management. A kind gesture, but a panel cannot tell us whether anyone outside the hotel actually went home.

RM's October 9 speech addressed drones and nationalities

On October 7, RM described noise, sleep and the consequences for everyone inside the hotel. At the October 9 concert, he addressed the devices directly. According to El Comercio's account of his speech, he said using drones or pointing lasers at the group was wrong.

He also recognised fans who avoided the accommodation and those who pretended not to recognise members in the street. That is my favourite detail in a story dominated by photographs of crowds: giving someone privacy is a fan action too, even when it leaves no photo behind.

RM said similar problems had happened in Europe and the United States and could happen in Asia. He rejected dividing people by nationality or continent and reaffirmed his belief in supportive fans, including Peru's. Andina's account corroborates those remarks. His affection for the audience and his objection to the intrusion were both explicit.

Before that show, the stadium chant had already put hotel avoidance into words fans could repeat together. El Comercio's report dates it to the October 9 pre-show. The letter, the renewed October 8 gathering and the October 9 response form a three-date sequence. The chant is the fandom policing itself in public; whether it emptied the street outside the hotel is still unknown.

Three Lima shows leave a narrow gap for recovery

The calendar explains the urgency. Live Nation's tour schedule lists two Bogotá concerts on October 2 and 3, then three Lima concerts at Estadio San Marcos on October 7, 9 and 10. Lima puts three performances into four calendar days. October 8 had no scheduled concert, but that gap became the night of the renewed gathering.

The same Wednesday–Friday–Saturday pattern follows in Santiago on October 14, 16 and 17. BIGHIT MUSIC's additional-show notice confirms that the Wednesday dates in Lima and Santiago were additions. A blank date on a ticket calendar is not a day off for the team. Still, it is the only gap between shows, and in Santiago it falls on October 15: the same test as Lima's October 8, a week later. HallyuMate's Latin America tour guide has the remaining route and venues.

Mina's Take

I find the stadium chant more useful than the apology panels. An apology asks BTS to recognise good intentions; a chant tells the people beside you what to do. RM had already explained the cost: members and staff were losing rest, and other guests were being disturbed. By October 9, he was also having to discuss lasers from a concert stage. Fans who stay away from the hotel deserve more visibility in this story, and the chant gives their choice a public form. My call: by October 18, a dated public clip from at least one of Santiago's October 14, 16 or 17 shows will capture fans repeating the hotel-avoidance chant. If no such recording appears by that date, my call fails.

What to watch next

• The final scheduled Lima concert on October 10, including any further privacy appeal from the stage.
• The Santiago shows on October 14, 16 and 17: whether audiences repeat the hotel-avoidance message.
• Any published hotel-specific measures from BIGHIT MUSIC, promoters or local authorities as the tour moves on.