I wondering if the hotels we are enjoying meeting traveling SP's at are on to our activities. I know the ladies tip cleaning staff for extra towels and things like that, and I believed the hotels just looked the other way to get the revenue, so I was surprised by what happened yesterday.
Booked Nikita from GOE yesterday. Thanks, BTW to GOE for understanding the mess in the end. I arrive early as usual, call the 5 mins prior. Everything is cool as GOE will call back when she is ready. I walk to the lobby at the appointment start time and I get this call from GOE:
"The cleaning staff is right outside her door. We'll call when it is clear"
This is the 3rd time this has happened to me at this airport hotel. Yes I use the same time because that is when I can get away, so this might be legitimately when they clean. I am standing in the lobby when I get the call back. I now try to look casual, but I must look fidgety or something. Like most hobbyists, discretion is king. Absolute king. I constantly am checking to make sure I don't recognize anybody etc.
After about 10 minutes I am fidgeting with my smart phone and my other phone rings. At the exact same second I look up and a hotel manager is asking if I need assistance. I am standing with a phone in each hand like a drug dealer and must look like a kid caught in a lie. I have never been approached by hotel staff ever! I mutter an excuse about my "friend" actually parking out front and leave. I feel I can't walk back in now and call to GOE to say that I have to cancel.
Did I stand out? Do they "clean" to cause a hassle for the SP? I know one SP told me that a hotel suggested that she "please find more suitable accommodation (in other words, don't come back here)" for her next trip to Winnipeg. I know Korean Jenny was chased out of one hotel dowtown. Is this why the Asian agencies are using Condos?
I am concerned for discretion. Traveling SP's used to be an fairly infrequent event, maybe two or three traveling. There can easily be a dozen or more these days at any given time. Hotel staff aren't stupid. Are we much more exposed that we think we are?
I wonder if others are feeling the same way, or did I just wake up to what everybody else already knew?
Thanks again to GOE for understanding.
Booked Nikita from GOE yesterday. Thanks, BTW to GOE for understanding the mess in the end. I arrive early as usual, call the 5 mins prior. Everything is cool as GOE will call back when she is ready. I walk to the lobby at the appointment start time and I get this call from GOE:
"The cleaning staff is right outside her door. We'll call when it is clear"
This is the 3rd time this has happened to me at this airport hotel. Yes I use the same time because that is when I can get away, so this might be legitimately when they clean. I am standing in the lobby when I get the call back. I now try to look casual, but I must look fidgety or something. Like most hobbyists, discretion is king. Absolute king. I constantly am checking to make sure I don't recognize anybody etc.
After about 10 minutes I am fidgeting with my smart phone and my other phone rings. At the exact same second I look up and a hotel manager is asking if I need assistance. I am standing with a phone in each hand like a drug dealer and must look like a kid caught in a lie. I have never been approached by hotel staff ever! I mutter an excuse about my "friend" actually parking out front and leave. I feel I can't walk back in now and call to GOE to say that I have to cancel.
Did I stand out? Do they "clean" to cause a hassle for the SP? I know one SP told me that a hotel suggested that she "please find more suitable accommodation (in other words, don't come back here)" for her next trip to Winnipeg. I know Korean Jenny was chased out of one hotel dowtown. Is this why the Asian agencies are using Condos?
I am concerned for discretion. Traveling SP's used to be an fairly infrequent event, maybe two or three traveling. There can easily be a dozen or more these days at any given time. Hotel staff aren't stupid. Are we much more exposed that we think we are?
I wonder if others are feeling the same way, or did I just wake up to what everybody else already knew?
Thanks again to GOE for understanding.





