When arriving early for some trysting at a hotel, I used to sit in the lobby and play with my phone until the provider gave me her phone number. Then I would get-up from my seat and go straight to the elevator.  

on how some guys handle arriving at a lady's incall that is at a hotel.
I had a few show up quite early and sit in the lobby, I explained this is not discreet.
Had a member of this site who not only wanted exact location two days in advance of our appt.
Then showed up 45min early to an appt. This is also not discreet.
I always tell gents to stay in their car and not hotel lobby until they receive room#
Your current way you mention here is the right way

They already know what is going on.. The hotel employees that is..  Do you really think that the hotel staff and ownership is so naive as to not realize that a female checking into hotel room (all by herself), almost never leaving the room, getting periodic visitors  (2-3 a day if she is independent - 5-6 a day if she is with agency) is NOT a hooker. I hope you realize that there are cameras everywhere in the hotel. In the registration area. In the lobbies.. Everywhere..  If they don't know what's going on then they don't deserve to be in that job.  

The safe ones are big.. lots going on.. meeting rooms.. restaurants.. the bad ones are smaller.. only entrance through the lobby.. I won't go to the bad ones.

I’m not seeing, more than 1 person during my stay.  My friends usually come with gifts, a bottle to share & are very respectful. I think attitude has a lot to do with setting the tone for the date. Since I cherish my adult time to me it’s, like meeting a old friend you have not seen in years it’s okay to be excited. Lurking in the lobby is not necessary. Park & wait for the room #.

....since I am female so I never assume that I am drawing any interest as a possible client.

As a woman, ever wonder if perhaps the staff think you might be a provider showing up for an appointment?  

it simply doesn't always work out that way. If need be, I don't much mind waiting in the lobby or other public area of a hotel. There are usually a few out-of-the-way places or meeting floors where you can wait in perfect privacy. Just act like you own the place. Don't behave in a furtive, guilty manner and you'll be fine. As someone said earlier, the hotel staff doesn't really give a shit about you.

Thank you, everyone, for great comments!

Not by the way I'm usually dressed, lol. But then again I'm sure providers check in wearing very casual clothes so ya never know!  

You are the only 2nd female hobbyist I have known in my last 20+ yrs of mongering  

I never once worried about it. LE isnt hanging out in hotel lobbies. Staff could care less what you are doing as many, many traveling business people hang out in the lobby every day. I get the paranoia to a degree but I don't think people are really out to get you. lol. The sting will happen in the room, not in the the lobby.

If only there was a bar or cafe in or just to the side of the main hotel lobby, I could sit there nursing a beverage while thinking of a plan to avoid looking suspicious ... hmmm ...
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If only the hotel was not one of those suburban hotels with nothing close by but a giant parking lot where I could sit in my car reading or surfing the web for a while.  If only it was a CITY hotel surrounded by dozens of other small businesses like cafes, Starbuckses, Dunkins, ... book stores, news stands, haberdashers, shoe stores, ... -- all within a 5 minute walk of the hotel entrance -- I could hang out in one of those places looking just like a regular customer while thinking of a plan to avoid suspicion back at the hotel ... hmmm ...
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Maybe I could come up with some other ideas:
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/ter-general-board-12/secrets-to-avoid-le-824704
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/ter-general-board-12/a-busy-big-suits-my-strategies-810739
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/ter-general-board-12/different-kinds-of-doormen-805077

Cameras are EVERYWHERE, including the elevators (for real):
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/ter-general-board-12/smile-youre-on-candid-camera-982877
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Concealed carry permit?
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/ter-general-board-12/not-a-lawyer--897145
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And the old "never talk on a cell phone while in a hotel lobby"
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/ter-general-board-12/re-you-should-have-celebrated-the-text-with-another-shot-of-hennesey-453503

Thanks, Victoria, for a good contribution!

She used to post here a lot and was smart and sexy. She wasn't gay but, as her name suggests, she loved the ladies. We even hooked up a few times and she was HOT!

For all of my mongering between escorts, AMPs and stripclubs I have never come across another female monger. I often ask the women that I commission if they've ever serviced another woman and I have yet to be told "yes". I do love my occasional wingmen in the clubs but I hope to find a female kindred spirit someday to hang with and compare notes

Curley just scarred the OP for life

I assume that the staff probably knows but don’t care unless someone complains. The paying guest (the lady) deserves courtesy.

the provider is coming to MY hotel.  That eliminates all of the problems you described. It's worth the outcall premium for me not to have to deal with the things you have described.  

Here in Minneapolis, there are several hotels around the airport that are frequently used by touring pros.  So potentially they could be several pros visiting weekly, or several times a week.  I think  the staff can probably figure out what's going on.

Every since the hotels started using smart keys to allow entry into a  room the system logs door opens and closes and also tags the camera footage with your room #, datetime and registration Id.

Not sure if swingsbothways used to like me or hate me.. There are mostly two buckets.. LOL.  I don't remember swingsbothways.. But do really like lopaw. She's cool chic.

Here is the problem.. Women don't need to pay to get laid. So finding a woman who actually pays to get laid is so much rare.  Also, a lot of providers service couples. So I think a lot them could be "servicing" woman as a part of seeing a couple.

At worst she didn't know who the fuck you were and didn't care. What she cared about was getting laid. She had a boyfriend whom she called PIC (Partner In Crime) and they used to fuck hookers together. And while she and I did hook up, I didn't get to bone her while she was eating pussy. That would have been great.
I was not the only TER member she hooked up with but I can't divulge who it was/is.

I know a provider that use to work the front desk for a major hotel here in So California.  She told me that she could always tell when a provider was checking in.  Plus she say the the bell man always know everything going on in the hotel with customers, she said if you ask them, they know all.

Tags WHAT camera footage? You make it sound like there are cameras pointed at every room door.  

I tend to see ladies in Tysons Corner in the DC area. I prefer it to DC itself mostly due to parking cost. Most ladies, whether locals or touring, seem to use the same subset of hotels.  

Thanks, Coeur-de-lion!

I always asked the provider for her opinion on the best route to take to her room. I wanted to avoid looking like I did not know where I was going or having to ask "what elevator goes to the 20th floor. Also, I did not go to the hotel until I got the text or call that the was ready. I'd kill time by waiting in a coffee shop near by. Downtown you were never more than two blocks away from coffee shop.
When the elevator required a key card, I'd ask to time a meeting on a non room floor that did not require a key like the ballroom floor. Pre-pandemic, those floors would be loaded with people. Now I am not sure how I would deal with that.

jaydalee,
  Even the being in one's vehicle is not really discreet. And no the Gents sitting in their car is not a fast way out when the cops surround the vehicle and block him in a corner so that he can not leave.  All Guys should get to the call no more then 1 minutes before and the provider should give herself 5 to 30 minutes in between each call.

If you can't figure out how an electronic lock could send "Tag" information to a backend server (powerful computer) that can be shared with the cameras on that floor, then please stay out of my conversation because it's more than what your brain can handle.

by the OP, and so IF the conversation was private, it would be HIS conversation, not yours.  When it's public, anyone can post and join the conversation at any point.  With that said, HSTD asked a legit question, and rather than answer it, you denigrated his lack of knowledge on this subject.  Do you consider that a helpful attitude towards fellow mongers?  

It's not private, it's a public board, he can ask what he wants and I can answer it the way I want.
If HE has an issue with my response, WE can work it out.

on asshole?  Why would he ask for a further response now?  Since I can't say that I haven't done that myself when I was a newbie, too, then yeah, that's good enough until you get a little more experience.

Yeah, I probably wouldn’t hang out in the lobby otherwise I don’t think they care. I dress well so do my guests. I eat at the hotel bar and tip well. One time I actually saw one of my regulars briskly walking to the elevators to visit a different girl while I was eating. Cute.  

I end up in hotel lobbies at the start and/or end of a visit because I have nowhere else to go. I spend enough time in DC that I should but a car, but instead I've been Ubering/Lyfting everywhere and a lot and for a long time (the trail I've left with them is another story). You get there when you get there and there isn't always enough time to wait for a ride before I have to leave a girl's room.
 
I've seen some shit. There's one hotel that I frequent way too often because it's close and it's where one of my regular Chinese Milf Agencies parks their girls. I like my young Japanese girls, but I really like most of these Chinese MILFs. Recently, I was in the small lobby waiting to go home when a kid comes out of the stairwell and aggressively points to my jacket on the chair next to me. I gathered it up and he swaggered his way into the chair. Not a word from him. And his face had some prominent scars adding to the overall street appearance.  
   
Five minutes later, three other guys, all rough looking, come out the door to the stairwell and they all walk out together...saying nothing to each other. Something was not right. Next day, I get a text from the girl I had visited and she said that after I left she was robbed at knife point by three guys who also choked her. They took everything valuable, overlooking her personal phone that was stashed. They had made an appointment, seemed so cool about it, I have to believe this is a routine they have. It's why I never complain about being met at the door for a visit by a guy or woman who's looking out for the girls.
 
Talk about feeling helpless, though, to help a girl you like (it was my fourth visit). I could ID the motherfucker who was sitting next to me, but of course, that would start endless grief for all concerned. So all I could do is console her and tip her huge on my next visit. And all she can do is live with the risks her profession brings with it.

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Was this recent? HOTEL SECURITY CAMERAS CAN ID THE THUGS. Lobby cameras, elevator cameras, hallway cameras. Tell her to ask security to PRESERVE THE VIDEO from that time and day.
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A police report can start out innocently: "Someone knocked at my door. They said "Housekeeping!" so I opened the door and four guys rushed in! They took x, y, z, ... their fingerprints are on the table, the mirror, ... they choked me ... and left."  If the police do a cursory investigation, they will brush her off but keep the video in their database, maybe post the screen capture images and issue warnings to other hotels, etc.. If the police dig deeper, they might ask her more difficult Qs but I think -- I HOPE -- that they are more interested in violent crime than her encounters.  
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The Craigslist Killer was caught and convicted by hotel security camera footage but the crimes have to be reported!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Markoff  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Craigslist_Killer_(film)
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I guess if you are on video leaving the room just before they arrive and also have you sitting in the lobby, they might want to question you.  Tough call. Maybe consult a lawyer? I don't know if LE in your city will go easy (like, ZERO easy) on you and the hostess in favor of taking down the thugs. If the lobby video is good, they won't need you to testify.  "Is that you in the chair in the lobby? ... Is that you moving your coat for that guy to sit down? ... Is that guy sitting at the defendants' table? ... What were you doing in the hotel that day?" "OBJECTION!! Irrelevant, incompetent, and immaterial!" "I was using the bathroom and waiting for my Uber to show up."

Yes it was very recent. I appreciate your response, it validated my position for me. You went over the things I did, but in much greater detail, which helped me to see that week link is the aggrieved party. They would never ever press charges and I would be blacklisted for causing them problems... And it would cause them problems, not to mention me. I told her in response to her message to me that I saw all four of them, and could definitely ID the lookout kid in the lobby. I'm sure her manager knows. As I mentioned in the OP, they had it down, were completely unbothered by what they were doing, and I'm as sure as I can be that, they've done it before and will again.
   
Again... no, in addition to what I said about appreciating your response, it was also reassuring to know that somebody else would love to bring people like the perpetrators to justice to protect the women we're grateful to for spending time with us.  
 
I have fantasized about getting a look at a mug book to put a name to the face and then mete out my own justice. They couldn't have cared less about the CCTV because they know it will never be reported. They need to start treating crimes like these the way they do ODs, where they can be reported without the risk of arrests, searches, or any other LE action. "Safe Harbor" laws. I'd do it without a second thought.

I don't think you said WHERE (city) this happened. And you're using an alias with no associated reviews. Some mayors or police chiefs have pretty much said that will not put resources into investigating or prosecuting consensual adult activities even though they are technically misdemeanors before the law.  Unofficial decriminalization vs actual legalization.  
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I suppose that those thugs will switch to new phone numbers, but make sure the booker keeps the number anyway. LE might be able to obtain phone records for the surrounding time period and establish that they used the phone in various locations (caught on camera?) to establish a pattern of activity ultimately associating them with one or more REAL crimes.  (E.g., those guys standing on a corner, caught on video, calling various friends, establishing connections proving it was them and not somebody that looked like them who just happened to call the same group of friends or relatives in the hours surrounding the crime.)  
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The booker or agency probably has a lawyer on call. Have them ask for the lawyer's opinion of the LE situation in your city. Will LE go after the thugs and minimize hardship to the girl and her agency? The thugs might even connected to OTHER crimes and LE might appreciate anything that helps to get them off the streets.
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Here's another scripted scene that won't happen as written. YOU go back and ask hotel security to show YOU lobby tapes because YOU think you were pick pocketed there that day.  "... and there was this suspicious guy who sat down right near me and my coat." See if hotel security will give you info or even alert their own staff to be on the lookout for those guys. "Nah ... it doesn't look like he bumped into me after all. But he and his pals were scary and acting suspiciously. Maybe I dropped my wallet on the sidewalk or left it at a restaurant. ... Thanks for showing me the tapes." ... Another down side: now they'll remember YOU if you ever go back for some occasional R&R.

I'm reposting this because it came our weird last time (my error):

Probably because they hate men.

They also need to not sit in their car at the hotel. Hotels are cracking down on things and cops are circling parking lots knocking on windows of guys sitting in cars. Go to a restaurant or a store parking lot and sit there. Absolutely do not draw attention to yourself when going to a hotel or a neighborhood. Bend in !!! Carry a bag or a folder or something that makes you look like you are not there to shag but have a professional meeting. I go over this on my website and I can't tell you how many do not follow it. I am very careful of the places I choose that way guys who do not think to blend in will look at least blended . I also send them out with something in their hand like a folder. I can tell you how many just leave it in the lobby or in the entrance of the condo . Throw it away at the gas station. It's a blank folder. It's to protect you and myself!

I think you all may not have seen this post, below:  Hanging out is not always by choice: I end up in hotel lobbies at the start and/or end of a visit because I have nowhere else to go. I spend enough time in DC that I should but a car, but instead I've been Ubering/Lyfting everywhere and a lot and for a long time (the trail I've left with them is another story). You get there when you get there and there isn't always enough time to wait for a ride before I have to leave a girl's room.