I have always been intrigued by how some providers can book a hotel room during the daytime for a single client encounter and then check out an hour or two later without arousing the hotel clerk's suspicions.  After all, there are no hourly reservations, only nightly reservations.  Are they doing this at great risk of being exposed, or does the hotel management turn a blind eye as long as they get the room paid for?  I would welcome responses especially from  providers with experience in this type of rendezvous.

I asked one of my providers this- she leaves room locked and calls the next day to check out.

There are  3 hour reservation hotels in New York . At any rate it does draw too much attention period ! Some hotel employees can see it as a couple having a fling if it only happens once in a while  . If this is an ongoing issue it may be reported and looked upon a little too much by nosey people .

Layla

If you are paying the full rate you can leave anytime you want and no one will even know if you slept in the room overnight or not.
I travel all the time for work and I haven't gone to the front desk to actually "check-out" in well over a year.
As far as booking an actual one or two hour rate, well, I guess it would arouse some suspicion but any hotel doing it is obviously more interested in selling rooms than they are in what you are doing in there...and that is as it should be.

I do this quite often, but never at the same hotel of course. Your right it is great risk of being exposed and I do check out right away and sometimes the client checks out depending on who paid for the hotel. You just have to be smart and discret on what your doing. Next time I will lock the hotel door and call the hotel later and check out, that is a smart idea! Thanks

hmmm, when I leave the hotel, ,I just leave the card in the room and go, I assume they will charge me for the night, whether I am there, or not.

Many hotels offer "day-rates".  From the hotel's perspective, it's an opportunity to have occupancy exceed 100% by selling the same room twice.  It's not commonly advertised, but it's purpose is theoretically for the person that's travelling and needs a few hours sleep mid-day.  If that person paid full rate and left, the hotel only sells the room once.  So, both win by the day rate.

As a practical matter, most hotel personnel can tell why someone wants a day rate.  Back in the day, I never cared, but some of my co-workers were bothered by it.

At a lot of hotels you can check out electronically or over the phone. One place that I use just leave the key on the table and leave. Some hotels/motels do have a day rate which is usually 3 hrs but this is not common.

A few years ago, I was in Pittsburgh and checked into a hotel for the night and left early the next morning, leaving the key in the room.  Turned out it was Labor Day weekend and the maids didn't check the room until Tuesday.  The hotel tried to charge me for three nights instead of the one I spent there, but fortunately AMEX backcharged the hotel and that ended the matter.

I had several daytime appointments this past summer, and I just left the key card in the room, locked the door and left. I've done that at a  few hotels and it's never been a problem.

I haven't actually checked out of a hotel room in years.

I never check out of a hotel when I am on business. They don't know and don't care when I have left the room, and they don't even care if I take the key with me, since the keys these days are almost always those plastic programmable key. They'll just come by some time in the morning, clean the room, reprogram the room key code, process the credit card, all is done.

So, no issue here.

I, too, always just leave the key in the room and lock the door.   That way, #1, it doesn't arouse suspicion and # 2, the room is still available if a regular calls and wants to see me.   If that happens, I just tell the clerk that I locked my key in the room.
I've never had a problem with not "officially" checking out at the front desk.

What makes you so sure she didn't use it again after you left?
IE. You 1900 - 2000. Next client 2200 - 2400?

When I rent a room I get it for one night and don't even check out. It's nobody's business what I'm doing in there.

when you check in, you make it clear that it is for one night and you sign the form to that effect.

Good point!  She could have used it again.

Any chance that a hotel might mail a paper copy of the bill (or some advertising) to your house, if you just leave the key in the room?  That would definitely arouse suspicions from the spouse.