after calling from the lobby at exactly the appointed time.

It's no biggie for me as long as the overall session time remains the same.

As for the long wait in the corridor, I thankfully have not had that occur.  I'd be very concerned about that.  Most likely I would figure I heard the room number incorrectly and would call her again to check it out.

Often times the gal is there at the peep hole and opens the door before I can knock.

Five minutes is nothing. I'm occasionally that late myself getting to an appointment. More than 10-15 minutes without any advance warning, and it starts to get serious. In fact, at that point I might write her off as a no show.

And I never park in the hotel lot until she has told me she's ready. I show up a few minutes early and park at a neighboring restaurant first.

But what really bothers me is when she takes more time getting ready AFTER she's let me into her room. Here I am all stoked, expecting to have her full attention from the instant the door closes, and instead I have to sit on her bed and wait. It really breaks the flow and kills the mood for me.

"For hobbiest, should the you have a reasonable expectation that when he makes the call, that the provider be ready to receive your company and not have to wait extra time?  
My next question for providers is what do you consider appropriate lead time to allow for the hobbiest to immediately be able to come to your door when he calls to alert you that he has arrived."

The problem here is that you are assuming that your appointment exists in a vacuum.  It doesn't. You could book an hour, a day, a week, a month, or a year in advance but it doesn't mean that some other guy won't book an appointment right before yours. Some gals will block 30 minutes or an hour between appointments and some won't.  They will accept all bookings and simply juggle to try and make everyone happy.  A lady may plan a 30 minute gap to be ready for you but then the guy before you shows up late.  Like it or not she wants his money just as much as she wants yours so she is going to see him, try to move it along and then try to stall you for a few minutes.

Unless you latch on to a few super low volume or UTR ladies I'm afraid you are destined to have to deal with the occasional waiting game.  None of us likes it but it's part of the deal.

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Several times I have been waiting near the hotel and see the provider drive up and she still has to check in, get to the room and then call you back. Just as us guys will sometimes under estimate the time it takes to arrive. In both cases as long as you keep communication up it is usually all OK. Some guys and ladies are always ready early and some are always running late. If you hobby a lot you will run into this. Being left in the hall has only happened twice to me. Once I was in the wrong hotel, 3 hotels were in a circle and she gave directions but not the name so I ended up at the right door wrong hotel and a lady did come to the door but by the sounds of the party going on I knew I was not at the right place. The only other time between the time she gave me the room and my getting to the door she received an important call from her Mom and had left her post by the door to answer it. Usually they are waiting by the door as they don't want attention either.  As has been said if it takes a real couple of minutes I will leave the area and call again in case of error. My cases of arriving at the hotel late also explains why occasionally I have had to wait in the room for the provider to finish getting ready. She would call me up to get out of the heat and since a lot of providers do not travel in the outfits they want to use she would excuse herself to change. Once a lady called me up said the door would be open, on the latch and she would be in the shower as she had just driven 5 hours to get there. Life is not always perfectly timed regardless of how much advance notice of the appointment. In all cases the time was more then made up for on the other end so no worries. The only exception to this was visiting girls who were running an assembly line kind of operation. There a delay usually mean another guy got there before you and it will only be 20 minutes before he is out the door. Since I switched to well reviewed ladies I don't have that problem anymore.

Yes, it may mean there's someone else running over their time, but as others have pointed out it could also mean the hotel room wasn't ready--I travel a lot and probably 20-25% of the time the room is not ready when I arrive, even if I am not ariving early.

Most the ladies I see now I know well enough that I pick them up at their home and we start by going out to dinner.  In those cases I know there is no other guy in there except maybe her 3 yr old son.  But still I often get to the house and call--I've learned not to knock!   --and get told "5 more minutes!".  She is settling the kids down, finishing her hair or make-up, etc.  I try not to make gender specific comments too often, but I think it's a girl thing in this case.  Maybe it is because I am folicly challenged and could not spent 20 min fixing my hair if I wanted to.  I have given up, and now assume 7 PM really means "somewhere between 7 and 7:20".  And when she is ready, it is almost always worth the wait.  Most the time it is the only activity I have for the evening, but in tighter time constraints I can see where it would be annoying.

As to waiting 10-15 seconds in the hall, I suspect waiting 3 seconds in that situation makes it seem an eternaty.  10-15 seconds is not excessive, but yes, it can be uncomfortable.