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’m sure she’d be equally as uncomfortable with the hotel renting rooms to judgemental people like you. You didn’t make good choices, OP. You had good choices. Be careful up there.

I had sex in a hotel this morning, the room, not the reception. You’ll be hard pushed to find a sex free or a sex worker free hotel. Its just sex, its not like theres a Dexter style murder going on next door.

Hotels also offer safety, some sex workers will pick the same/a small number of hotels, this forms a relationship with the staff who can assist them where needed etc.

Day and hourly rates are also very common now, when our office was shut during covid and rentable work places were all full I sometimes rented a local hotel for a few hours to get some work done.

Because the etymology of the word "prostitute" means to be publicly exposed and sold.

Actually it’s using the term ‘clutching pearls’ to insult someone who objects to exploitation and abuse that is terribly Mumsnet.

It’s fantastically naïve to think the reason you have given is the reason why there has been a move to normalize the use of sex worker over prostitute. If the reason you have given were correct, there would also not have been the drive to sneer at people who use prostitute as being ‘old fashioned’ or ‘archaic’. Think about it. Why the need for the contempt and demonization, if the reason was the one you gave?

Men can be prostitutes too, btw.

How? They don't have a sign flashing over their heads. The ones I know blend into the background and you wouldn't look twice at them. They are normal women dressed appropriately to fit into the environment they are in.

Thirty years ago when I was having an affair, we would book into a hotel at 3pm and check out at 5pm the same day. Maybe that was her reason too.

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

@FoleyHuck 😳😳

@twilightcafe Yep! The duty manager called him. He obviously realised he'd been found out, panicked and told them to take as much as they wanted off the credit card on file before hanging up. They replaced the whole sofa.

But the ‘method’ surely wouldn’t even achieve much, surely unless the hole was very narrow, I was going to suggest shagging a pillow, but then I got brain vomit and I don’t like this at all anymore.

It is very rare to go into any bar in any 5 star hotel in London and there not be sex workers there. Not sure why it would be a surprise

(lots of hotels do have day rooms- all the Hyatts and Hiltons for example)

I used to live in the red light district of a big city. The prostitutes there wore jeans and tshirts.

I don't understand why the prostitute would be paying for the room - it would be the john.

Also £250 for a family room in central London is super cheap. A friend recently paid that for Kings X Premier inn double room.

It still isn't 'very obvious' to me, sorry. Please explain in more detail what prostitutes wear and look like, and maybe also how you know this?

I really would not care.

You can book lots of hotels for the day- usually 9am to 5pm. There's a website to do it called Dayuse I think. Lots of nice hotels on there. Its not just for prostitutes and affairs but if you are travelling for meetings etc and want a nap, a shower or somewhere to work. You have to pay on the day and its a lot cheaper than the overnight rate.

This happened to me once at the iconic Betsy Hotel in Miami. Place was crawling with them. Horrible.

I sympathise but there's really not much else you can do to be honest.

The term 'sex worker' is used because it covers all types of sex work including webcammers, strippers, porn performers and phone chat operators as well as prostitutes.

So all prostitutes (male or female) are sex workers, but not all sex workers are prostitutes

Dear god 😂😂😂

I guess its nothing more than people having sex in a hotel room if indeed she was a prostitute. I can't imagine that being the nicest job in the world and probably is icky and sleazy, but sad really that someone has to do it.

Unless your H is visiting her… its none of your business!!

I've had plenty of icky, sleazy sex without getting paid for it. A lot of it was in hotels too (and most of it was pretty damn good).

Does it really make any difference to the OP or anybody else whether I got dinner and drinks, hard cash or nothing at all in exchange for it? Who the fuck cares?

I'm laughing at the idea that the OP wouldn't know she was a sex worker.

Its not sex work, its prostitution.

Call it what it is.

Unless the woman concerned was actually soliciting hotel guests within earshot, there is no way on earth the OP could possibly have known for certain.

At least not unless her husband already had her ad and photos up on his phone 🤣

Firstly she was just a woman checking in, so no need for labelling anyway.

Plus you’re about two decades behind the times if you don’t understand that prostitution can be part of sex work but isn’t the be and end all of sex work.

There is a website where you can hire a hotel room for a few hours during the day. Loads of nice hotels on there.

https://www.dayuse.co.uk/?utm_source=google&utm_campaign=UK_-_G%C3%A9n%C3%A9rique&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=day&utm_term=half%2520day%2520hotels&utm_matchtype=e&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADIlLpZRMMzdVsj1IIyd_H3VL8_vD&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq7GR5cW_hQMVSZJQBh0mfwy1EAAYASAAEgLdDPD_BwE