This is so dodgy - hotels by the hour

The R & J Motel in Kent does rooms by the hour - how do I know this? A group of friends and me stayed there on the recommendation of another friend who was getting married nearby! It was grimmer than a grim thing - everyone else got drunk to cope with it - I was six months pg and had to cope with the situation sober!

Yes, it does sound a it dodgy! Although I am sure I read somewhere about airport hotels offering rooms by the hour for those between flight stopovers.

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Why on earth ius he asking you? And why is he too cheap to pay for a full night? What a skankster.

When I started work the Great Eastern Hotel used to do this - is strange now its all smarted up ... that said I can't think of anywhere that does it now other than airport hotels

Eeeuuuuw, do you reckon the sheets are changed by manky hotels that may offer this?

What a lucky girlfriend (s) he must have. Too cheap to pay for a full night, too lazy and indiscreet to arrange it himself. Nice.

Can't he just get a travelodge room if he's so cheap? Gotta cleaner than a king's cross dive with working girls. (unless that's what he really wants)

An hour? Is that all? ?

? At Skanster, he so is.

I wouldn't be surprised if he'd pulled some bird over lunch and wanted somewhere to go with her now before meeting his girlfriend for dinner. This guy is a playboy and has money to burn which makes me wonder why he can't just book a room for the night.

Christ, the girls i used to do this with made me take them to chewton glen for a night ?

Not even that if you knock off time getting dressed and undressed, having a shower/wash etc...would'nt even count to 20 mins. That bloke should put more effort in.

Wah I was thinking it could be a waste of 50 minutes, I wonder if anywhere sells them by the 10 mins ?

Isn't there a Travelodge or premier inn or something like that between Kings Cross and St Pancras ?

There is a Travelodge by Kings Cross and it's horrid - yuck!

The hotel I used to be a chambermaid at (oh the glamour?) used to rent rooms out for the afternoon, and they'd then have to be cleaned again for the 'evening session'.

We used to get all sorts of vomit-worthy old men meeting up with their secretaries for some afternoon 'dictation' ? - they used to arrive about lunchtime and park at the opposite ends of the car park to each other, in some pointless attempt to make it look less obvious.

Some of the lower budget hotels in town centres are well known knocking shops already. the working girls feel £40 for a night is money well spent if its somewhere they can take clients which is warm, dry and relatively safe...

My mum and dad used to own a guest house, and on quite a few occasions my mum was asked if they'd rent a room for a few hours. She always told them know, and that if they wanted the room then they could pay for the whole night!

? "dictation"

My friend recently made a last minute business trip to Aberdeen. The hotel he is normally put in was full so his secretary made a reservation at a different one. His first sign that all wasn't right was when the taxi driver said "are you sure ?" when he gave him the name and address.

On checking in he had to pay in full before being allowed to see his room, and hourly rates were clearly displayed.

So yes, in Aberdeen, they do rent them hourly.

Waaaaah which ones? <not that I'm interested, honest>

I was going to say GE & I know the Tower Thistle does too.

This reminds me of a story that some of my dad's old colleagues (both male) told us. They were in Amsterdam and hadn't booked a hotel in advance. They spotted a place called 'Hotel California' and being Eagles fans, thought it would be a cool place to stay. Until the receptionist told them that they only rented by the hour. They then had to do the walk of shame, paranoid that everyone was thinking that they'd just had finished their 'hour' ?

I know of a few hotels here that do by the hour. My mum has had a few people knocking on her door (parents own a guest house) asking if she rents room by the hour.

Saying that she's also had someone offer her £40 to use one of the showers because they had been on the beach and needed to shower before he met his girlfriend.