this expenses claim is suspect?

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someone in dh's firm has filed an expenses claim which features 'two bottles of wine' delivered to his room at 2 am.

The guy says that he was entertaining clients in his room. Personally, I think he was doing a different kind of 'entertaining' altogether.

Is this the hotel's way of billing for turning a blind eye to this man having a 'guest' or two in his room at that time of night? At best, I think it's likely that he DID order two bottles of wine, to share with his friends/clients.

Or am I just too suspiscious?

Haha, cheeky sod putting it on expenses. If you were entertaining clients, you'd do it in the bar not your bedroom.

Well, if there were also receipts for a meal and more drinks building up to this then they could have been having a late night out with clients?
But in the hotel room? He wouldn't invite business clients there would he? Surely thats a personal expense?

exactly - so it isn't 'clients' is it? he was the ony client there imho

I have been up to hotel rooms when being taken out on business, usually if the bar is shut, it's one of those things that seems like a brilliant idea at the time! Especially if the guy is a smoker, you can't smoke in bars but you can in hotel rooms (hotel permitting).

Well you would probably entertain clients in the hotel bar, unless they wanted to do things you can't do in a public place. Like smoke, snort or shag for example.

FWIW I would hazard a guess at the smoke/snort scenario.

It could be that drinks with clients turned into a bit of a session and they got kicked out of the bar so decided to carry on drinking in his room. This has happened to me before (but on courses, so I wouldn't have claimed expenses for it!). Hope he got some business out of it for whoever he works for though. It would be way beyond the call of duty for me.

yeah, there is the simple Want More Booze scenario.

Now I like wine very much, but 2 bottles would seem excessive at that hour unless there were a few of them there. So maybe taking piss a bit but not necessarily anything dodgy going on.

Actually thinking about it, I have done this - ordered 2 bottles of wine in the early hours from room service. We had friends there after a night out. Want more booze scenario is therefore valid.

I wouldn't have got away with it on expenses mind.

Oh I automatically assumed illicit shagging. Maybe not.