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What's the hotel policy regarding bringing in guests to your room?

Old Jul 21st, 2017, 07:14 AM
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What's the hotel policy regarding bringing in guests to your room?

Say you're a single man and you just met an interesting woman while travelling. Would you be able to bring her into your room for a few hours to discuss movies and current events, or would the hotel not allow this?
I'm asking for a friend.
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 07:18 AM
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might she need to rest her eyes over night?
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 07:24 AM
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Bilbo, the friend didn't specify, but I guess not.
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 07:24 AM
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Sounds like s prostitute not a new friend. You can discuss things at a bar or cafe, obviously. I think your friend is lying and why would any woman do that?
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 07:30 AM
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Yeah why not?
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 07:31 AM
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Hotels not only allow it, they expect it.
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 08:10 AM
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Christina, who said anything about her being a prostitute? Holiday romance is more common than you think.
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 08:10 AM
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Hotel policies vary from place to place and hotel to hotel. Ask at the front desk.
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 08:33 AM
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I do not think any hotel would give a rat's posterior about any moral implications in inviting a guest to spend some time in one's room. The only possible objection they might have might be the rather strict regulations for declaring the number of registered guests, which I assume is related to fire protection ordinances.
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 08:35 AM
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LMAO@ rat's posterior.
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 12:14 PM
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A guest may invite anyone he or she chooses to his or her room.

The only problem is if someone is paid for sexual activity - and that is a crime for the person who pays for it.
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Why think of whores - I can easily see an attractive bloke like loacker bring a gal (or guy) back to room for whatever one may do in one's home -that is what it is - a temporary home.

Why think prostitute?
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 02:08 PM
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You may need to ask the hotel for their policy on guests staying the night. In some countries (I am thinking particularly of Germany) you are not renting the hotel room, you are paying a cost per head on how many people stay in the room and the next morning if the front desk knows about the situation you or whoever is footing the bill (i.e. business) may be asked to pay more. This is based on an unpleasant experience my husband and I had some time back when I joined him on a business trip. If your guest is just going to visit you for the evening there is no problem.

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In big hotels no one knows who gets into an elevator and stays in your room.
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 05:43 PM
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No "interesting woman" with her brains in the right place would enter the hotel room of a man she only just met, unless it's for sexual activities. Sorry, guys. Think.
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 05:46 PM
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Much of my travel is to cities in Asia, and hotels have policies about bringing someone back to your room. Not all hotels allow it.
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This thread reminds of the nuns that taught me in high school.

No fun, no experience.
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Kathie, I have always seen those signs in Asian hotels as well, but they only mean that you must not forget to tip the receptionist for breaking the rules.

I think there is an abundance of church ladies on this forum.
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"Church Ladies"; how absolutely and delightfully appropriate, Kerouac!
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Old Jul 21st, 2017, 08:27 PM
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Tell your friend to be discreet, it is nobody's business what he is discussing in his room
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