I don't know about hotel but the escort industry thrives on motels where I imagine all of them pay cash for their rooms. I imagine even higher end escorts, tha

I don't know about hotel but the escort industry thrives on motels where I imagine all of them pay cash for their rooms. I imagine even higher end escorts, that are far more exclusive (many of which have websites with paid photo shoot photos and online booking for known clients) and do incall in more upscale locations, use cash for rooms simply due to the amounts of cash they're seeing. There's at least one subreddit for this industry, intended for owrkers only, and I'll peruse it occasionally, but I've never seen any of the higher end ones mention how they handle rooms. I suspect many have the client get the room, but i can also see the client paying cash for the room as well. ---- Unrelated to escorts, the few times I've used motels/hotels I've paid cash simply because they haven't had a terminal on the desk and I'm not keen on handing my card over to someone behind a desk that you generally can't see over without leaning over it. My paranoia screams "great way for them to skim the card directly or take photo/video of it". Similarly the few times I've rented a car I've let them use my card for the hold but have paid cash. --- Unrelated to cash: Hotels go to all sorts of means to build brands (like they are doing here with the 'clean coins'). Some chains will even go as far as making their locations all smell the same. I remember a podcast episode years ago that did a deep dive into hotel scent and appearance but for the life of me can't remember what podcast it was, perhaps Planet Money. Here's an article on scent branding though https://hbr.org/2018/04/inside-the-invisible-but-influential-world-of-scent-branding https://hbr.org/2018/04/inside-the-invisible-but-influential... It wouldn't surprise me if a hotel even dealing with relatively small amounts of coinage in a given week would even go as far as hand-sorting rolls from a money service to select new coins as part of their brand. Chains do all sorts of psychological tricks to give you a familiar experience at their various locations in hopes of getting you to use their service over a competitor.