Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Bizarre hotel experience- was it a brothel ? AIBU

307 replies

Mill46 · 21/06/2017 18:26

Arrived on business to city and decided to drop my bag before heading to conference . Booked hotel last minute . Wasn't cheap . Man meets me in street and takes bag showing me entrance to " hotel" next to door to betting shop . Ok a bit weird but I was in a hurry .i return later and let myself in with code and find my room is up 2 flights of a spiral staircase which I find hard to navigate ( won't go in to detail ) . So I ask weird guy who appears with bag if he had another room . He does - it's fine and I say I'll move to that one . Then he says he would prefer if I left . I'm now feeling a bit freaked out and think best to get the out of the place and away from weird guy . I ask him to reimburse me before I leave . He agrees then comes back and says his boss says no . I'm cross now and mention trip advisor - he then says he will pay me himself and gets me to accompany him to thencash point . He gets me the money and off he goes . Now in ianother hotel - but what the fuck was that all about - was it a brothel , should I get in tripadvisor anyway ???

OP posts:
RockyBird · 21/06/2017 19:17

Curious Smile

DrSpin · 21/06/2017 19:17

if not Norwich was is geneva? The red light district there is rather interesting and I've stayed in business hotels which have been decidedly suspect.

vincentaroony · 21/06/2017 19:17

We need the Tripadvisor link! Surely the brothel aspect will be mentioned in other reviews?!

Mummyoflittledragon · 21/06/2017 19:18

Bizarre thread. What makes you think it was a brothel and how do they think it's ok to get payment and chuck you out??

sexcauldron · 21/06/2017 19:18

Don't leave us hanging OP

Batteriesallgone · 21/06/2017 19:18

I wouldn't leave a bad review...presumably you booked online so they have your details. Not a good idea to wind up a suspected criminal who knows where you live.

mortificado · 21/06/2017 19:18

I'm intrigued! Come back!

JimmyPestoJunior · 21/06/2017 19:19

I'm another one who read the post and immediately suspected Norwich Grin If it is the same hotel the Trip Advisor reviews already make entertaining reading.

SnugglySnerd · 21/06/2017 19:19

He was obviously a bit concerned about a possible review on TripAdvisor which makes it sound like a hotel albeit not a very nice one.

Fucktifyno · 21/06/2017 19:19

Erm... OP?

spiderlight · 21/06/2017 19:20

I accidentally stayed the night at a brothel once. Lots of ahem coming and going during the night and not a soul at breakfast.

user1496484020 · 21/06/2017 19:21

Why do OPs dump and run? Vair annoying.

happypoobum · 21/06/2017 19:21

Shamelessly placemarking

Fitzsimmons · 21/06/2017 19:22

You came to the conclusion it was a brothel based on the staircase and a refund?

QODRestYeMerryGentlemen · 21/06/2017 19:23

🤔

DestinationSofa · 21/06/2017 19:23

Not cheap haha

ToothFairiesHaveNoChange · 21/06/2017 19:23

🙈🙉🙊

cowgirlsareforever · 21/06/2017 19:24

Turning up at a hotel and then being asked to leave for no particular reason is very strange.

LilyLongtree · 21/06/2017 19:25

Perhaps he had looked in your bag and saw the rice and pringles 😉

glitterglitters · 21/06/2017 19:27

Is this one with the "not so free" parking?

loaferloveforyou · 21/06/2017 19:27

Sharon?

Sittinginthesun · 21/06/2017 19:28

Think I have just found the hotel in Norwich on TripAdvisor.

I just googled "hotel like a brothel in Norwich". Grin

saltandvinegarcrisps1 · 21/06/2017 19:28

Drugs are for mugs OP

kmc1111 · 21/06/2017 19:28

Sounds like it's most likely not a proper hotel and more of an AirBNB type thing posing as an actual hotel, hence man meeting you on the street and asking you to leave when it became clear you had issues with the set up. The guy probably just owns some rooms in this building and isn't legally allowed or allowed by the building to do what he's doing with them.

Not sure why you went straight to brothel. Actual brothel 'hotels' aren't exactly subtle about what they are since they have no interest in people showing up and then not paying for the main attraction.

HarrietKettleWasHere · 21/06/2017 19:29

Reow! A love of foxes and a hometown in common Grin

MJB lodge...enough said Wink

Swipe left for the next trending thread