gentlemen :  

- have you ever met a escort out in a hotel bar or just outside in general or do you just stick to online  & review boards?

providers :

- do you feel comfortable going to upscale lounges, hotels, etc and going up to a man who may be sitting alone ?

I'd rather do my homework and stay safe.

Mostly my  online presence,  website, ads, reviews, already have dates set up,.Lined up..The Best and safest way.. but sometimes i like to  stop have a drink listen to music..seems like there is all ways a man or more..in lounges..just to talk, or more..usually end up in his hotel room...Ive  met some of  my best friends .
,clients that way too. 😚

by phone. However, I've often met an escort I've already booked at a bar, restaurant or other public venue. I have never spent time with an escort I've met at a public venue.

Yes that's the Best and safest way,   freestyling it's a good fun Fantasy!!  

If you do, just be careful.. xoxo,  

As for picking up an escort in a bar, I didn't know that was still a thing.

 
Actually, I did try that once at a strip club a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (OK, the old Combat Zone in Boston.)   It was an epic fail.

 
After that, I stuck to either MPs, or personal ads, until the internet and TER came along.

Because it's in public doesn't mean a street walker. I'm speaking of a hot girl in a nice lounge or something...your favorite provider can be in her hotel bar and magically a man wants to sit with her and next thing leads to another

Exactly...👫  👄👄

If I'm in a hotel bar, then that probably means I have a room at said hotel
If I have a room at said hotel, then that probably means I did my research and found an escort weeks in advance

Down Washington Blvd at 8:30am, that's an interesting story but egg McMuffins are involved. Would that count as a streetwalker?
In hotel Bars,hell yeah,ever been to Vegas?
But usually I try to plan my time with reviewed ladies, but sometimes shit just happens to fall on my lap.
So yes, I've met "Escorts" in all my walks of life.

Oh ..was that you at the Mirage lobby bar  checking me.out...🍒  just kidding.. xoxo

because that's exactly how it is done in places like Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and countless other countries I/you have been to.

 
Now if you are talking about picking up "casino girls" in Vegas, most people will agree that the danger level is much too high for most people to chance, although I will confess to having done it myself in recent years, but I doubt I would recommend it to others.

 
As for doing it in other cities, i have to confess if a hooker came up to me in a bar/hotel and she was hot, chances are pretty good that after taking a few precautions to protect myself from being scammed/arrested, yeah I'd probably go for it. I spent years picking up hookers in hotel bars and I still like meeting in person rather than the internet every now and again. Some people here have no sense of adventure.

I have seen streetwalkers but that was 30 years ago and luckily those days are over.

In those cases it's like being at a huge M&G.  A smorgasbord of hookers.  Heavenly.

A few years ago at a known casino and was people watching and saw a woman working the crowd on a weekend evening - could tell as she was alone and trying to hit up other single guys, which were few.  I won big the night before and made my way to her and long behold we started a conversation.  Ten minutes later we are going up to my room and it was the worst $300 I ever spent.  She was hot, but just laid there.

I only book girls that I've seen on the verification sites or here.  Always online (or over the phone if that's the way they prefer it).  I have to do the research to know I'll get a quality session and not be walking into a sting.  

That said, a couple of months ago I was out on the town for a friend's bachelor party, and we ended the night at the hotel lounge where he was staying: a swanky hotel in a hot part of town.  And what do I see?  A provider that I recognized from TER.  In that case, I would approach her and try to work something up.... BUT I was never interested in that particular provider anyway.  

If any of you were active in Vegas that far back you might remember one of the Lobby Bars in Caesars Palace. They had a free snacks,(but you had to tip the guy who brought them to you if you ever wanted to see him again) and loads of hookers used to hang out there. If memory serves me right, the going rate was about 50 bucks and most of the girls would supply the room so they could get business from locals and guys staying at different hotels as well. I knew several girls in my "real" life who would supplement their income by turning tricks on the side back then. I was also an occasional customer back then. Even as a kid I saw nothing wrong with paying for it every now and again while out drinking and gambling.

 
Fast forward to modern times and a few years ago I was staying in what will forever be a very infamous hotel due to recent events and I had just cashed out about twenty grand and ran into a gorgeous girl in the hallway near the elevator, this was probably 3AM who was obviously on the make. Well what could possibly go wrong with a drunk like me with $20,000 in his pocket picking up a casino girl at 3AM, right? Actually nothing bad at all happened. She asked for a grand, I countered with $500, she stood firm at a grand, I said good night, and  she folded and agreed to $500. lol

 
and before people start thinking I am a complete idiot, we went immediately to the room, I did not have a drink with her, or otherwise give her a chance to slip me a roofie, and the very first thing I did upon entering the room was to let her go to the restroom to "freshen up" while I put EVERYTHING of value into the room safe except for the $500 we had agreed to. She came out of the bathroom and proceeded to fuck my brains out and didn't seem to mind at all that it took me virtually forever to cum since it was the middle of the night and I had been drinking for at least 6-8 hours. lol  I even saw her again I enjoyed myself so much, and she would send me texts from time to time letting me know when she was coming to town. Each time though she would still ask for a grand and each time I would have to remind her that I would only pay $500, so much for "not negotiating" I suppose. lol

 
I guess this is one of those "do as I say, not as I do" kind of things though, I would NEVER recommend even the most experienced monger to ever do what I did, but it turned out just fine and I thoroughly enjoyed myself, but like they say on tv "don't try this at home"