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GrumpyL · 2024-04-13T14:13:39+00:00

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?

Janetime · 13/04/2024 15:55

SilverBranchGoldenPears · 13/04/2024 15:50

I booked into a hotel with my DH for a night of fun- we had family over babysitting so it was an opportunity- picked a relatively expensive but definitely dodgy looking hotel in a seedy part of the city- next morning at breakfast there was family with a teen and a young child sat with them- all with a thousand yard stare.
i felt so bad for them. What were those parents thinking???

Anyway. YABU. DH is right they have to work somewhere and while I hate the sex industry is rather these women can work in a hotel which is clean and safe.

What?

GingerIsBest · 13/04/2024 15:55

It's so funny how many things you don't know. She could have prepaid a deposit and the £100 was the remainder. She could have been moving rooms. Or upgrading.

Or she could be a prostitute paying a check in clerk to let her use a room on the sly.

So what? Does it affect you? No.

Janetime · 13/04/2024 15:54

what am I reading, how were you so sure she was a prostitute do tell.

GoodAfternoonGoodEveningAndGoodnight · 13/04/2024 15:52

Curious to know how she was obviously a prostitute?
Was she leaning/breathing on the desk, and saying "50 bucks, Grandpa, for 75 the wife can watch..." at you both?

DreadPirateRobots · 13/04/2024 15:52

I wouldn't want to stay in a hotel that supports sex work

So all of them, then.

Lots of high end hotels have a "day use" offer for couples to use the spa and/or have some afternoon delight. Or for working girls to get some work done. Or people who just got in off a redeye. Who cares?

Paninaro94 · 13/04/2024 15:52

Hate to tell you but it’s probably happened in every hotel you’ve ever stayed in.

SilverBranchGoldenPears · 13/04/2024 15:50

I booked into a hotel with my DH for a night of fun- we had family over babysitting so it was an opportunity- picked a relatively expensive but definitely dodgy looking hotel in a seedy part of the city- next morning at breakfast there was family with a teen and a young child sat with them- all with a thousand yard stare.
i felt so bad for them. What were those parents thinking???

Anyway. YABU. DH is right they have to work somewhere and while I hate the sex industry is rather these women can work in a hotel which is clean and safe.

HelloMiss · 13/04/2024 15:50

Rowleywaykid · 13/04/2024 15:33

I think the word you’re looking for is sex worker not prostitute. Your wording is as archaic as your attitude. Would you rather she was having sex in a car down a back alley, where the risk is raised for her.

Yes! I actually think she would!

Sharkysharky · 13/04/2024 15:49

MississippiAF · 13/04/2024 15:30

She said - fifty bucks grandpa, for seventy-five, the wife can watch.

And breathed all over the glass counter.

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🤣🤣 one of my favourite lines, ever.

Literally who cares who she was OP.

HelloMiss · 13/04/2024 15:48

'Away with your sneeering' 😂 😂 😂

HelloMiss · 13/04/2024 15:48

@greyonwhitesky don't be daft! 😂

The term 'sex worker' is used as it covers both men and women

Clutching pearls and objecting, how very mumsnet 😂

meemawww · 13/04/2024 15:48

GodZilah · 13/04/2024 15:18

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

Howling 😂😂😂

TraitorsGate · 13/04/2024 15:47

It's not "your" hotel and not your place to decide who can stay there, what a very old fashioned attitude, what bothered you so much.

Peclet · 13/04/2024 15:46

greyonwhitesky · 13/04/2024 15:41

I use the term prostitute because I object to the term sex worker, which has been adopted for political reasons to make an inherently exploitative business seem mainstream. Trafficking and abuse of women iin prostitution is common. There has been research in countries were prostitution is fully legalized and ‘above board’ which has shown that the prostituted women there have as high, or higher, levels of disassociation from their own bodies than child sex abuse victims. And even for the small minority of high earning prostitutes who can choose a small number of clients they are safe with and freely do choose that work, I still object to prostitution as I have a strong principled objection to a society where men are able to buy intimate access to women’s bodies. That is something that I strongly believe no one should be able to purchase.

So away with your sneering about old fashioned. I’d rather have looked into and thought about issues and make my decisions based on that, rather than on what’s ‘fashionable’.

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100%!!

Surroundedbyfools · 13/04/2024 15:46

You seem to have made a lot of assumptions.

also ur deluded if u don’t think most hotels will have all kinds of “business” conducted in them. Just mind ur own business and get on with ur day

eddiemairswife · 13/04/2024 15:43

All 1950s schoolgirls knew that prostitutes wore ankle chains.

greyonwhitesky · 13/04/2024 15:41

HelloMiss · 13/04/2024 15:29

They are called 'sex workers' these days.....not prostitutes....maybe it's you who is quite sheltered using such an old fashioned term?

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I use the term prostitute because I object to the term sex worker, which has been adopted for political reasons to make an inherently exploitative business seem mainstream. Trafficking and abuse of women iin prostitution is common. There has been research in countries were prostitution is fully legalized and ‘above board’ which has shown that the prostituted women there have as high, or higher, levels of disassociation from their own bodies than child sex abuse victims. And even for the small minority of high earning prostitutes who can choose a small number of clients they are safe with and freely do choose that work, I still object to prostitution as I have a strong principled objection to a society where men are able to buy intimate access to women’s bodies. That is something that I strongly believe no one should be able to purchase.

So away with your sneering about old fashioned. I’d rather have looked into and thought about issues and make my decisions based on that, rather than on what’s ‘fashionable’.

TracyBeakerSoYeah · 13/04/2024 15:39

I'm intrigued by what supposed sex worker was wearing?

Was it actually a Hooters uniform & you misread it as Hookers

Or was she wearing rugby gear & looked like the hooker in the team?

SquishyGloopyBum · 13/04/2024 15:38

Lots of hotel rooms hire day rooms out. Usually 1000-1700. Chain ones including Novotel, Hilton etc.

You really don't know what they are doing there.

Mrsjayy · 13/04/2024 15:37

I saw an obvious sex worker In a hotel reasturant a couple years ago it was the man who gave me the total creeps he was decades older than her.

TotHappy · 13/04/2024 15:36

Why is prostitute offensive and sex worker isn't? Seriously?

GingerScallop · 13/04/2024 15:34

greyonwhitesky · 13/04/2024 15:32

If she was checking in at that time it’s because the hotel rents out day use room for people who want to meet to have sex.

If you don’t like this, you need to make sure your hotel does not offer day use. Though all those people wil be using their room whilst you are out.

Would just have to avoid hotels altogether. Even those without daily rate might have business people or someone holiday who decides to bring in a "prostitute ".

Rowleywaykid · 13/04/2024 15:33

I think the word you’re looking for is sex worker not prostitute. Your wording is as archaic as your attitude. Would you rather she was having sex in a car down a back alley, where the risk is raised for her.

DollyTrolly · 13/04/2024 15:33

Goodness OP.
If that shocks you don't ever google killing Kittens or Skirt Club. They include groups of people who book hotel rooms to engage in group sex...., sometimes just for the day 😂😂

GingerScallop · 13/04/2024 15:32

GrumpyL · 13/04/2024 15:21

She paid £100 as she counted it out in £10 notes as she gave it to the receptionist. I don’t want to get into a discussion about you shouldn’t judge a women by what she was wearing etc, let’s just say it was very obvious that she was a prostitute hiring room for the day. This was 10.30am in the morning, not the night.

Last two times I checked into a hotel last month I checked in at 10am and 7 am. Both because my long haul flight meant i landed in the early hours so checked in before the 2 pm time. The last time they actually charged 100$ on top of what I has already paid. I probably looked bedraggled. I wonder what you would judge me as.