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Prostitute checked into our hotel!

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GrumpyL · 13/04/2024 15:13

Ok, so away in London for a couple of days with DH and DD (10). We were staying in a 4* Hotel which is part of a large chain of hotels, not a small independent. We went to reception about 10.30 on the 2nd morning and was met with a lady (who was very obviously a prostitute) being told her room would be ready in 5 mins and her handing over £100 in cash to the receptionist. The hotel is £250+ a night and check in is 3pm!

AIBU to this this made the hotel feel a bit icky and sleazy after I saw that? Husband and I spoke briefly when DD wasn’t listening and he said “well they have to work somewhere!”. Not sure if I’m turning into a prude in my old age, but I really didn’t feel comfortable in the hotel after I saw that. I’m sure for her, it was a safe and comfortable place to work and I know this goes on in hotels, I suppose just seeing it in broad daylight shocked me a bit. We knew what she was there for, the receptionist knew what she was there for, the man behind us in the queue knew what she was there for, maybe I thought she and the hotel should have been a bit more discreet if they allow this to go on in their hotel, especially when it’s a family friendly hotel and there were a lot of children around?

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Garlicked · 13/04/2024 18:14

Tempnamechng · 13/04/2024 15:21

Irrelevant, but you just reminded me of when I was accused of bring a prostitute in a posh hotel. I wasn't by the way, and wasn't even dressed like one, but we'd been on a night out and my friend had gone to bed earlier than me and locked me out of our room after taking the only key. 🤣
I think you are being ott by the way.

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Yes, that's happened to me twice when travelling for business meetings. At one of the hotels, the doorman tried to stop me entering until I gave the name of the "gentleman I was meeting" 🙄

@GrumpyL there are several reasons for daytime use of a hotel room. Fashion teams and film crews use them for changing or setting up; so do wedding planners and bridesmaids. Detectives sometimes use a hotel room as a base. Air crew and other travellers book in to sleep and shower between journeys. People even book suites for business meetings. Prostitutes do use them, of course, and the most usual daytime customers are couples having affairs.

It's kind of sweet that you were shocked!

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BettyShagter · 13/04/2024 18:14

littleroundcircle · 13/04/2024 17:57

If it was part of a large hotel chain, I doubt very much they let people book rooms for half a day at £100.

IBIS charge about £90 for a day (10am to 5pm I think).

But they don't accept cash, like every single day use hotel I've been in doesn't accept cash.

Augustus40 · 13/04/2024 18:13

ByUmberViewer · 13/04/2024 18:06

I'm a snob. When I pay £500 a night to pay in a hotel I want to be surrounded by classy rich people - people who dress expensively and can afford expensive meals and cocktails. It's all about the ambience.

I don't want to be surrounded by prostitutes. if I wanted that, I'd go and hang in Kings Cross. And save my £500

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You are confusing streetworkers with independent escorts. Totally different. One is illegal and the other is not.

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 13/04/2024 18:13

My old man’s a prostitute,
He wears a prostitute hat

tillytown · 13/04/2024 18:12

How do know she wasn't paying so she could check in early? Or paying for damaging something in her room? If she was a prostitute then why would she wasting her money on an expensive hotel? There is nothing discreet about a man turning up to a hotel in the middle of the day for half an hour and then leaving, so who would she be seeing? And if she was an escort or sugarbaby, the person paying her would also be paying for the hotel so she wouldn't be paying for anything.

RosesAndHellebores · 13/04/2024 18:12

You do realise it happens at the Ritz, etc.

It's not like she was snogging reception with a hickey on her neck and a can of cheap cider in her hand.

CremeEggThief · 13/04/2024 18:11

If you were the hotel owner/manager, YANBU.

As merely another customer/guest, YABU.

unsync · 13/04/2024 18:11

Most hotels have day rates for their rooms. It's a way of bumping up revenue, and if they have spas attached, you also get access to that.

Pedallleur · 13/04/2024 18:10

ByUmberViewer · 13/04/2024 18:06

I'm a snob. When I pay £500 a night to pay in a hotel I want to be surrounded by classy rich people - people who dress expensively and can afford expensive meals and cocktails. It's all about the ambience.

I don't want to be surrounded by prostitutes. if I wanted that, I'd go and hang in Kings Cross. And save my £500

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Those same people have all the vices and more that everyone else has. Prince Andrew fits into your categories, would you want him on the next table?

BronwenTheBrave · 13/04/2024 18:10

You do know that a prostitute lives next door to you, don’t you?

LuluBay · 13/04/2024 18:10

She might of been wanting a break from home. Working from the room or meeting up with a partner.

Otterock · 13/04/2024 18:09

Do you need another set of pearls to clutch onto OP?

Stressfordays · 13/04/2024 18:09

SocksAndTheCity · 13/04/2024 18:06

I'm guessing that's because your sex worker friends ARE nice, normal people @Stressfordays , as are mine. Who would have thought it? Smile

I mean, normal I'm not so sure of 🤣 but they're not weirder then me who has a 'respectable' job but earns far far less then them 🤣

SocksAndTheCity · 13/04/2024 18:09

Do you seriously think that no prostitutes can afford expensive meals, clothes and cocktails, @ByUmberViewer ?

Devilsmommy · 13/04/2024 18:08

GodZilah · 13/04/2024 15:18

Also prostitution related or not that hotel room will be covered in jizz regardless.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

StopStartStop · 13/04/2024 18:07

There are prostituted women everywhere.

Pedallleur · 13/04/2024 18:07

ginasevern · 13/04/2024 18:00

OK, let's say she was in fact a sex worker. What about it? How was this going to impact your 10 year old or all the other apparently clean living families at the hotel? She wasn't plying her trade in reception. There's probably people snorting coke and doing god knows what behind closed doors, especially in higher end hotels and in a major city. I don't see what your problem is.

Someone I know was playing in his band in Altrincham recently when an announcement was made there was free cocaine in the toilets. Said the place just made a bee line for those toilets. Just shows how common that vice is. Might even have been a prostitute/sex worker there. Personally I was shocked at the acceptance that the coke was free and that people assumed it was cocaine not rat poison or laxatives. Let's not forget prostitution is the worlds oldest profession supposedly.

SocksAndTheCity · 13/04/2024 18:06

I'm guessing that's because your sex worker friends ARE nice, normal people @Stressfordays , as are mine. Who would have thought it? Smile

ByUmberViewer · 13/04/2024 18:06

lotsofpeoplenametheirswords · 13/04/2024 17:05

Why, what did they do to you?

Would you have preferred loads of young couples having dirty sex in the hotel rooms? Would that have been ok? Or it it because they were getting paid to have what would have been exactly the same outcome? Because it makes no difference to you.

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I'm a snob. When I pay £500 a night to pay in a hotel I want to be surrounded by classy rich people - people who dress expensively and can afford expensive meals and cocktails. It's all about the ambience.

I don't want to be surrounded by prostitutes. if I wanted that, I'd go and hang in Kings Cross. And save my £500

BouleDeSuif · 13/04/2024 18:05

@MorningSunshineSparkles thank you, life is very much better these daysSmile

Stressfordays · 13/04/2024 18:05

I'm friends with a couple of sex workers. They look like nice, normal people. No hanging red lights so scarlet letters pinned to their chests. They never pay for their own hotel rooms either. Their booking does.

Topsyturvy78 · 13/04/2024 18:04

Bit judgemental of you to assume she's a prostitute. 🤔🙄

80smonster · 13/04/2024 18:04

willWillSmithsmith · 13/04/2024 17:31

I’ve stayed there. Does it have a reputation? I didn’t like the bathroom set up, one of those all glass things inside the bedroom.

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Yup. It’s rather blinging isn’t it! The outfits are something to behold, especially on a Friday evening. Were you there over a weekend? Imagine that’s probably peak flow in terms of trashy vibes.

SocksAndTheCity · 13/04/2024 18:04

MorningSunshineSparkles · 13/04/2024 18:00

I think you can pay extra for early check in, perhaps that’s what this woman was doing? Most prostitutes try to avoid looking like the stereotype so you’re really just judging a woman that was dressed in a way you didn’t approve of.

You can, but a lot of hotels offer a specific day rate for 9-5 or thereabouts - I've booked this at the Doubletree in Victoria when I was coming in on an early long haul flight from Gatwick, had meetings later and my booked hotel didn't check in until 3pm.

Without it I would have been sleep deprived to the point of insanity, stressed as hell and grotty as fuck, plus I would have had to wander around London in that state for roughly five hours. I can't recommend it enough Smile

penjil · 13/04/2024 18:03

Stop clutching your pearls.

What she is doing is one of the oldest professions in the world.

She is having sex, and people in hotel rooms do this, the world over.