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

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.

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 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.

Re: One-Hour Hotel Room Reservations

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.