same for me. My wife ignores it. She knows the real world and that some assumptions will be made. The only time I "reacted" is when some jerk refused to allow her to come to the room and wouldn't call me.

If you ever decide to do that, be sure to post pictures. ;)

Nah, no profit. He needs to sell tickets.

Most hotels will hold the ID card of someone joining you in your room and if they leave alone, they will call you to check everything is okay before returning their ID.

How do you know that :p

Maybe the staff thought it was your wife or made a mistake and thought you were sharing a room. Not necessarily a sex worker.

I've been confused as a lady of the night when my date and I checked in to a hotel after work and I was dressed in nicely (In a Victoria Beckham style dress) and my date in a suit. I heard the 2 staff talking and as we walked to the lift they came out of the reception area to look at us walk to the lift. I did absolutely nothing about it. Who cared.

What is it with everyone seeking compensation.

When that too young girl shows up at the hotel to see me wearing skin tight (spray-on) micro shorts and a halter top, is she a sex worker or my 20 year old daughter who attends the local university? I can't imagine that hotels want to be in the business of making these assessments.


Exactly, Annalisa12.

;):D

seems like many replies did not read post?

at a luxury hotel, you would not pay for the night

you may have had better results if you had discussed reservation with management level staff at booking and checkin

This conversation has clearly gone beyond the limit of the original post into a more general conversation about the issue.

Confusing statement, please clarify

But according to the rest of the original post, after a moment of confusion on the phone they straightened it out and she got her own room for the night. Why would a hotel comp her that room?

again >

(imagine this happening on most expensive cash/points booking you have ever made / will ever make)
(clearly at the cheapest points/cash hotels there should be lower expectations re service experience)

i said luxury hotel, as in best hotels in the market (except worst markets)
even nonluxury hotels may offer (good) service recovery for service failures
points properties can sometimes be problematic if procedure favors points over cash
accepting service failures encourages more service failures and less service recovery
(such accepting is why service/quality has declined so far in United States for example)

many on flyertalk deal with management level staff at hotels, whether they are luxury hotels or not
dealing with decision makers is completely different from (new) entry level front line employees