Prostitute checked into our hotel!

[GrumpyL]

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?

I used to work in a naicehotel and one Male guest dug a hole in one of the sofa seat cushions, filled it with shower gel and fucked it

OMG 😂😂😂😂

Well said @Pookerrod.

Seconded.

I worked in a hotel where an old man came in every week with a different girl.
an hour later they would leave, hand the keys back and say he wouldn’t need them again.

it was always after pension day so technically tax payers money. Even more shocking op.

@Pookerrod You are ignoring my point and you know it.

I used to work in a hotel. Anyone who has will tell you, you would not believe the crazy shit that goes on.

Someone once, did a poo on an ironing board.

No. Technically his money.

No one is laughing, but do you think your bleeding heart is going to stop prostitution? No, it isn't. So, allow them to ply their trade in the relative safety of an hotel instead of offering it in the back of a van or an underpass. You will never ever remove prostitution as an 'option' from these women. It's not laughing at them or being a cool fucking girl, it's having some realisation of what the reality is for some.

No because then what I would have said is “it’s impossible to enjoy your work” as opposed to what I actually said.

The vast majority of women having sex with men for money are not enjoying it. Remember Paula Clennell?

men review their “sex workers” online. It’s very revealing. It does not reveal that the women are enjoying it nor that the punters think they are.

OP would have a blue fit walking down my road. We have a well known ‘love hotel’ that rents rooms for €60 for six hours. Lovely decor (lots of mirrors) and a garage with ever-so-convenient curtained off parking bays 😂

And OP, of all of the people going in and out only about 10% ever look ‘the type’. Put your pearls down.

I bet she wasn't a prostitute.
I remember when I was young meeting a friend at King's Cross Station after a night out (not gone to bed yet night out). It was about 7.45am I was standing around, in my clubbing gear, looking the worst for wear, waiting for friend. Some bloke comes up, pretending to look at postcard stand next to me and says to me '£40'. I reply 'OMG! I'm not a prostitute' bloke scooted off.

Another time, I went skiing in Eastern Europe 25 years ago. In the 'posh' hotel we stayed in loads of very heavily made up women with very skimpy clothes hung around in the bar. Day one, we thought they were sex workers. By day five, we realised, no, that was just how the local women dressed.

Hotels do day rates that are much lower than standard rates. They offer them when there is spare capacity. People use them for a variety of reasons.

No one is trying to be "cool." Women who resort to prostitution are in a DIRE way. Usually drug addicts. Kicking them out of hotels will mean they'll endanger themselves even more by doing it in cars/streets, it will not solve the problem. Ultimately, you will never eliminate sex work. That is the reality. It just needs to be made safer for women.

What point are you trying to make in a thread where an OP is horrified that someone might be using a hotel room for sex work?

I'm still not seeing good reason to believe that she was a prostitute from what you've written. Many hotels allow early check-in, some whenever they have a room available and some under particular circumstances and/or by advanced request. It's also possible in many hotels to check in LATE, having booked the previous night and let the hotel know your approximate arrival time - I've seen this in London in particular for people coming off of overnight transatlantic flights. As far as the amount she paid, hotel rates vary considerably. She could have had a credit, booked it on Priceline at a significant discount, benefited from a loyalty program deal, etc. It's not that unusual to pay cash, and given 10 and 20 are by far the most common denominations of Sterling (and what you'd get from an ATM), that's unremarkable too.

In a good hotel, it's likely that the guest could show up, give their name, and have a prearranged early check-in and a reduced price honored without any discussion that would be audible to other guests in the queue.

I once checked into a hotel and was asked to pay a room deposit but my card wasn't working. I paid in cash. She could have been doing that.

I'm shocked you think it isn't a lot of money these days. 😆

I believe you OP. I was shocked by blatant presence of sex workers in a London hotel, midweek with families staying. This was a hotel right on Piccadilly. Really put me off staying there, I’ve lived in London for loooooong time

On this, a few years back my partner went to reception to book an extra night at the hotel because we had to leave by 11am and me and the newborn were KO. He didn't want to wake us, it cost about £95 and he paid cash at reception.

It could have been something like this.

Because the second one makes the person saying it feel virtuous.

It’s a safe place to work

I don’t know why it would make you uncomfortable?

So you’d be happy to be in a hotel you’d spend a lot on, with your kids, and for there to be a series of rapists johns fucking some unfortunate woman in the room next to you?

Yeah, right.

I’m not naive that my children will eventually learn about the existence of sex work but my dd is 10 and genuinely has no idea of the concept. Seriously, what on earth are you all showing and teaching your children that they would be able to spot a prostitute at thirty paces in the lobby of a Premier Inn?

No one said 'happy' about it, did they? It happens. It's always going to. I'd prefer my child to be in a hotel at the same time as a relatively safe prostitute going about her day than hearing about another one laying dead in a ditch. But I suppose we care about women in different ways:

How would it be any different to any other couple having sex next door?