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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:
Nettletheelf · 21/06/2017 20:33

I lived in Norwich for a year in 1993/1994 and this has been a wonderful trip down memory lane for me. Not that I stayed in either the MJB lodge or the Beeches, you understand. But Norwich is quite a rum place, in a charming way.

Sittinginthesun · 21/06/2017 20:34

coded message like "the cuckoo flies low over the nest at midnight"? Do you think Mumsnet is used like that?

EarlyWelcome · 21/06/2017 20:40

WTF? Don't leave us hanging OP. So many unanswered questions!

LagunaBubbles · 21/06/2017 20:40

This hotel sounds quite famous actually now. Vital details however OP missing from your post about what made you think it was a brothel, did you witness the clientele and staff in action?

SleepingTiger · 21/06/2017 20:40

Yes, MN has been used like that Sitting

Northend77 · 21/06/2017 20:40

OMG I just read the TA reviews on the MJB hotel! What a hovel! Love someone's comment that they wouldn't even let their dog stay there!!

KeiraKnightleyActsWithHerTeeth · 21/06/2017 20:48

sleeping Has it? Do you know of any instances? Would love to read them.

apostropheuse · 21/06/2017 20:51

Live, from Norwich, it's the quiz of the week!

Sorry, showing my age there .

BoreOfWhabylon · 21/06/2017 20:51

And, whilst waiting for OP to return

m.youtube.com/watch?v=edESzn4JcGo

Sittinginthesun · 21/06/2017 20:52

What, spying stuff? Or illicit affairs? Maybe Sharon was in on it?

Reow · 21/06/2017 20:52

They're sex people Lynn!

dottingcrazy · 21/06/2017 20:57

update op??

OutnumberedbyFurchesters · 21/06/2017 21:00

Oh I hate reading 7 pages to find that the Op has gone AWOL.

Placemarking for any return.

w12newmum · 21/06/2017 21:05

I think it could have been a brothel - I've heard of hotels in London used for lots of dodgy purposes but have tripadvisor pages etc to make it look like a hotel. In Canada my friends parents booked online the bargain 'hotel' across the road from work; friend had to explain this was a hostel for homeless and those with drug addiction problems.

RedStripeIassie · 21/06/2017 21:07

Where are you OP??
I've stayed in a few dodgy places in Norwich most of them friends houses but never seen this side of it.....

Floggingmolly · 21/06/2017 21:10

Why would you hand over your bag to some guy in the street, when the hotel wasn't in evidence? Why did he meet you in the street, for that matter? Confused
Best stick to Travelodge in future. They're harder to confuse with a brothel.

OlennasWimple · 21/06/2017 21:13

OP, please come back!

snozzlemaid · 21/06/2017 21:19

Ok, I'm slightly concerned now. We're spending a week in Norfolk in August (not in a hotel thankfully).
Reading this thread, should we avoid visiting Norwich?

HarrietKettleWasHere · 21/06/2017 21:22

@Reow... oh we might do! I'm 31 now...

HarrietKettleWasHere · 21/06/2017 21:22

@Reow... oh we might do! I'm 31 now...

SleepingTiger · 21/06/2017 21:22

I know of two small estate agencies (lettings) that provide a range of 'activity' not advertised. They let properties for sure, but some are owned by those businesses and let out for other purposes. Not just the obvious.

HarrietKettleWasHere · 21/06/2017 21:23

No no one should avoid visiting Norwich Grin

It got a lot going for it...

Maudlinmaud · 21/06/2017 21:24

Op are you out there there there there

YoJesse · 21/06/2017 21:24

I've stayed at MJB Norwich brothel hotel GrinShock thanks to cheapskate ex. It wasn't till the next day I realised the filth we'd slept in.

Are you going to tell us more op?

Firenight · 21/06/2017 21:24

Now I'm looking up trip adviser. Great thread!