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I had a friend who worked the front-desk of several hotels during university in Canberra. He gave the impression that he was not only aware of the prostitutes,

I had a friend who worked the front-desk of several hotels during university in Canberra. He gave the impression that he was not only aware of the prostitutes, but was on pretty good terms with the regular ones. Albeit, granted I'm sure the regulars weren't generally in the practice of wrecking the rooms... but cleaning up after the horrible things people do in their rooms is pretty stock standard for the hotel industry... No one "likes" it, but no one likes cleaning toilets either, and that still needs getting done and people do it and its stock/standard of being a cleaner... And if you're not hiring a cleaner to clean your rooms and doing it yourself, you can bet 100% you'll be cleaning up some pretty horrible stuff in the accommodation industry. If they leave the room in a bad state, that just makes them bad customers...

gpvos 10y ago
Does the prostitute use the hotel room as a work room and invite several guests throughout the night, or is she taken along by (a) "normal" guest(s) who rented the room and bought her services for a night? That makes quite a difference.
- nmstoker 10y ago
  Yes, that seems like the most reasonable objection, as if it's then used by multiple other guests then it's effectively subletting and (presumably) not what the owner agreed to. The state of the flat is unfortunate but goes with the territory for AirBnB / hotels etc.
- ACow_Adonis 10y ago
  IANAP (I am not a prostitute :P), but... I was not under the impression it was common for several clients to be booked during the one night. I believe the girls would either use the hotel room for: a) A place of work for regular specific bookings: it has the benefit of not being at a brothel/not at their home if they aren't comfortable with that, and it can become a familiar place and you'll be "reasonably" safer than going out to a clients house. b) A way to work if you're in a different city/having another girl coming from another city. Obviously, if you remember your freakonomics, there are levels to the prostitutions market. So there is the possibility of: c) Its a place to drum up new business. I imagine places like hotels in Washington/Canberra where people are there on business, have money, and are away from their families, is, in the prostitution business, a place of relatively high demand. So the clients might have a room there that they're already paying for... Now to be fair, this is at the relatively upper-end of the prostitution market. Ironically, in the context of my other discussions in this thread, in this country at least, if there's a super low-end part of the prostitution market, i'd expect it to be operating out of illegal brothels...and probably out of unmarked houses out in the burbs...
- stevekemp 10y ago
  (I used to do a lot of work photographing escorts.) A little of both, depending on the "class" involved, and the location. You might be surprised to learn that a lot of prostitution happens during the day-time. In largish-hotels a bloke going up to a room, spending 30-60 minutes there, and coming down wouldn't stand out. Even if the same host entertained 5+ people in her day. (Unless you get involved in high-end work you'll virtually never have an overnight booking. Average duration amongst the people I knew was 60-90 minutes.)

gpvos 10y ago

Does the prostitute use the hotel room as a work room and invite several guests throughout the night, or is she taken along by (a) "normal" guest(s) who rented the room and bought her services for a night? That makes quite a difference.

nmstoker 10y ago
Yes, that seems like the most reasonable objection, as if it's then used by multiple other guests then it's effectively subletting and (presumably) not what the owner agreed to. The state of the flat is unfortunate but goes with the territory for AirBnB / hotels etc.
ACow_Adonis 10y ago
IANAP (I am not a prostitute :P), but... I was not under the impression it was common for several clients to be booked during the one night. I believe the girls would either use the hotel room for: a) A place of work for regular specific bookings: it has the benefit of not being at a brothel/not at their home if they aren't comfortable with that, and it can become a familiar place and you'll be "reasonably" safer than going out to a clients house. b) A way to work if you're in a different city/having another girl coming from another city. Obviously, if you remember your freakonomics, there are levels to the prostitutions market. So there is the possibility of: c) Its a place to drum up new business. I imagine places like hotels in Washington/Canberra where people are there on business, have money, and are away from their families, is, in the prostitution business, a place of relatively high demand. So the clients might have a room there that they're already paying for... Now to be fair, this is at the relatively upper-end of the prostitution market. Ironically, in the context of my other discussions in this thread, in this country at least, if there's a super low-end part of the prostitution market, i'd expect it to be operating out of illegal brothels...and probably out of unmarked houses out in the burbs...
stevekemp 10y ago
(I used to do a lot of work photographing escorts.) A little of both, depending on the "class" involved, and the location. You might be surprised to learn that a lot of prostitution happens during the day-time. In largish-hotels a bloke going up to a room, spending 30-60 minutes there, and coming down wouldn't stand out. Even if the same host entertained 5+ people in her day. (Unless you get involved in high-end work you'll virtually never have an overnight booking. Average duration amongst the people I knew was 60-90 minutes.)