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?

£100 sounds like the early check in fee for some hotels. Whatever this woman looked like it's not a given she was a sex worker by a long chalk.

Then you probably shouldn't stay in any of them - because it happens everywhere.

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

@GrumpyL
A) Vivienne in Pretty Woman
B) Cynthia Payne
C) a 14 year old trafficked child.

Which one did she look like?

And how come you and your husband have the experience to know that she was one?

I'm still laughing at plasterers radio

There are lots of reasons she might be hiring a room for the day. She might have just wanted to work or sleep in peace because she gets no peace at home, or meeting someone for an intimate 'date'.

I highly doubt a prostitute would choose a 4 star family friendly hotel to do their business anyway. Even if you are right, unless there were loud sex moaning from next door to a young family (which can sometimes happen anyway with there not being a sex worker next door), I wouldn't bother.

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

And breathed all over the glass counter.

She may well have been a prostitute. But does it really matter who is having sex in the rooms I guess? There are all sorts of ‘respectable’ people doing dodgy things in hotel rooms. Try and let it go. She may have an extremely wealthy politician in there. Does that make it better?

Wtf?!!
Sometimes people might like to dress differently?
And are you telling me.... People have sex?! In a MORNING.
BRB just off to clutch my pearls at the thought of it.

My friend sometimes books a hotel room for a lunchtime shag with her partner. Maybe it was her!

thanks for making me smile - who knows or cares what was going on , check in times can vary as one can request an early one , she couldv’e been dolled up / handing over cash for any number of reasons - yes you’re a prude enjoy your weekend as it’s a nice sunny one in London

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.

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.

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 😂😂

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.

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 ".

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

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.

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.

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?

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’.

All 1950s schoolgirls knew that prostitutes wore ankle chains.

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

100%!!

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.