Originally Posted by
kamel123
In this specific case: The concierge could easily ask for the person's room number, or if the person has a restaurant reservation, or could ask for the person's ID.
So you can't leave your bag with the Concierge unless you're a registered guest or are a restaurant patron? Even worse, you can't charge your cellphone without being a registered guest? You shouldn't have to provide ID for small, simple things. Isn't discretion part of being a 5* hotel?
Originally Posted by
Cathay Boy
Hotel security can take a lesson from casino security dealing with prostitutes:
1) Keep tab of who's who. If the hotel security does its homework, sooner or later you can tell who are the "regulars" here and you are pretty sure they are who they are, this way you don't upset the real female guests that dress like them. As this article hinted, prostitutes have their own turfs and usually after a month of data collecting the security can probably identify 90% of working girls that frequents your establishment for a score.
2) Once you've identified them, keep them moving or if they hang out at a bar they have to BUY drinks. This is a way to restrain their inconvenience real guests. If they are at the lobby they can't sit and do nothing but they have to move either to a bar, restaurant, to buy food and drinks, or get out. This way you keep the lobby clean. At the bar/restaurant bar, they have to buy drinks if they wanted to stay.
I'm a regular in Bangkok. In one bar I used to frequent, there is one "working girl" who is there several nights each week. She sits by herself, pays for a glass of wine, and doesn't approach other patrons unless they've at least made eye contact and she is invited. The bar staff treat her respectfully, as they do all other patrons, and, IMO, that's exactly as it should be.