Prostitute checked into our hotel!

You have no idea whether this woman is a sex worker, you are making assumptions presumably based on her appearance.

even if she was, consenting adults have sex in hotel rooms every single day. Why on Earth would you think it would be an issue?

Could have been a knackered mumma just wanting a day of rest and peace on her own for a few hours.

Where I live now prostitution is like totally empowering and cool guys and we are such a liberal cool country for being OK with it. BUT at the same time there has been a lot of complaining about the punters clogging up the city centre, being rowdy, harassing non-prostitute women, making the city look seedy. But prostitution is still like totally progressive. So the solution is for the government to build a single "complex" (basically a mega brothel) outside the city centre and all the prostitutes and sleazy men can be there out of site. Obviously the people living there are not happy, neither are the prostitutes themselves (safety issues, being confined to a building with less freedom, being sidelined). It feels incredibly dishonest - like we are going to pretend there is nothing wrong with prostitution on the one hand but also the men are so awful we are going to put the whole thing out of sight somewhere from the people that matter.

Which is a long winded way of saying I don't like the normalisation of "sex work". But I would also rather the women in the story (if she was indeed a prostitute, big if) was safe to work in a hotel rather than pushed out of sight somewhere less safe.

In fairness, if your granddaughter and friends were teenage girls it could easily have been concern rather than nosiness. As someone who has seen young looking teenagers on street corners in other countries (where there is very little one can do because its so tolerated) it is actually really upsetting to see and not be able to do anything. In a setting like a hotel I can imagine a receptionist keeping an eye out that random men weren't going into the potentially underage teenagers hotel rooms. She would have thought you were their pimp by the way.

How does this ‘prostitute’ have any impact on your life at all? Are you worried your husband will hook up??
Did you invent this story about her based purely on her clothes and payment in cash?
I used to work for a charity for vulnerable women and some hotels in our area had an agreement for them to have rooms at a reduced rate to keep them safe.

long ago when I was young I lived in one of the "red light" areas in the city. Of course there were no actual red lights, there was street prostitution and of course that meant kerb crawlers. I was sometime kerb crawled and guess what, I was dressed in very ordinary day to day clothing. I was even kerb crawled while visibly and heavily pregnant. Guy asked me if i was "doing any business" and I just walked on and he drove after me, followed me in his car and then parked outside my flat and kept looking up at the windows. There are some vile men ot there.

careful there poppet, think you dropped a pearl

They're not going to come and have a shag in the dining room, are they? So no reason to worry about there being kids in the hotel.

Realistically, kids probably make more noise and hassle to other guests than prostitutes do.

“That's where sex workers tend to work from, if they are sensible. The person who checked afterwards could have been an arms dealing rapist but you wouldn't judge him cos he was a man in a suit? Get over it. Sorry but it is central London. Every day a 'prostitute' sleeps/works in every hotel.”

This. Especially the highlighted part.

Ah, another entitled parent who wants the world to revolve around them and their sprogs, and bitterly resents those of us who won’t cooperate. 🙄

When I worked in a hotel, we mostly found the sex trade rather seedy and undesirable.

Are you really that sheltered? and at least she wasn't on the street.

So what though?

Did your child know she was there to be paid to have sex?

How did your child know?

Get a life

Unless she was giving a lap dance in the lobby, blowing a guy in the corridor or getting her baps out in the kids club the family friendly part is irrelevant.

I think that's what makes no sense
I don't know how these things work but
A sex worker who.works on the streets isn't going to pay £100 for few hours in a 4star hotel for clients....they will have cheaper places surely
And those working the more expensive and exclusive end of the scale wouldn't be counting out cash or dressed obviously????

I see tons of posts on MN about how they only stay with the DH for the house/money. I don't see how sex work is any different.

Worse yet, they stay (and probably have sex) with cheating DH, sometimes knowing he is in love with another woman. This is in 21st century West European country.

Shock. Horror ... people have sex in hotel rooms???

Can she really make money if she has to spend £100 on a hotel room? (I have no idea how much is typically charged).

Friday night is actually one of the cheaper nights of the week as lots of people just want Saturday. Sunday cheapest.

Good for her if that’s the way she has chosen to make her money. I’m certainly not judging her for it and I hope she managed to stay safe without any dreadful experiences. But let’s not kid ourselves that she’s representing the majority of women doing this.

"Did you ride him into breakfast" 🤣🤣🤣

You got a 4star !!! Hotel in London for £250???

Sorry but also to add £250 a night hotel in London (if central) is quite cheap.

I think you will find this happens all over the world.

High end hotels in London will be used to this. Concierge services will also arrange suitable “escorts” for their valued clients if requested.