Your Cheating Heart.

[Jester]

To be honest, it never occurred to me that if I check into a room at a hotel for any reason whatsoever, I would have to leave express instructions to prevent a key to my room being given to someone who can convince the hotel that they have a "good reason" for getting one.

Because YOU'RE not cheating on your wife!

[HotelMinion]

Our policy is very strict. The person's name on their ID must match with the one on the folio. To keep away stalkers and such I guess. Do I do this all the time? No. I size up the person, and if he or she doesn't look like he or she is lying, then I use my best judgement. It's hard to tell, but this doesn't happen to me very often. Most people whine and beg and won't leave you alone. And woe betide you if it turns out they're saying the truth. Course, if I misjudge, woe betide us when they sue. So damned if you do, damned if you don't. :P tis a gamble.

[tropicsgoddess]

Dunno about hotel privacy and all that but that guy was an idiot,plain and simple. Though I have to admit, whatever happened behind closed doors with his wife catching him and in the open would've been great fodder for Cheaters.

[Caractacus_Potts]

I don't see that you did anything wrong and as far as the people who are worried about someone getting a key? That's what the bar lock is for. No one is walking in on me at a hotel I stay in unless they break down the door, key or no key.

Reminds me of a story I read from another hotel person. Woman called and complained about getting double charged for a night she stayed with her husband. The CSR looked into it and explained to the woman that she had not been double charged; she and her husband stayed on X date and her husband stayed again on Y date a few days later.

A few hours later the CSR gets a call from the husband who starts screaming at her over the phone about how SHE just ruined his marriage, his wife threw him out of the house and is filing for divorce because of HER and how dare she give any information to the wife regarding their joint credit card!

[ShootMePlease]

Whatever happened to giving fake names at hotels ? Like Dick Goesinya ?

Problem solved

[dendawg]

Whatever happened to giving fake names at hotels ? Like Dick Goesinya ?

Problem solved

Is that even possible anymore, now that every motel/hotel requires ID?

[ShootMePlease]

Is that even possible anymore, now that every motel/hotel requires ID?

I don't see why not, unless they only allow celebrities to do that.

[tollbaby]

I don't see why not, unless they only allow celebrities to do that.

Celebrities don't get to register under fake names... It's usually a holding company or an assistant who puts the room under their name. They do, however, give them code names for those who are in the entourage, etc. to use when phoning in or requesting room keys.

[Captain Trips]

Now, if it were me and my wife in this situation, it would have been a bit different. She would have been pissed at me - not for being in a hotel room with another woman, but for not letting her know where I was and when to expect me home! But then again, our marriage vows said nothing about monogamy. (Heck, she might even get pissed that I didn't ask her to join us!)

But that's just us, not everyone feels that way. And before we go fratching again, she and I are of very high moral character - it's just that we've agreed that sex outside of our marriage isn't terrible enough for us to split.

[Sheldonrs]

Sex between 2 people is a beautiful thing. But with three, FABULOUS! ;-)

[Peppergirl]

For anyone wishing to continue the conversation about the privacy aspects of this issue, there is a thread at fratching in the 'social woes' section. It's titled 'no privacy'.

The address is http://www.fratching.com

Yes, this is a not-so-subtle hint.

Thanks.

[Salesmonkey]

We've all learned a valuable lesson about hotel policies. It's a good idea to specifically list, at check in, the guests that are authorized to have keys, and to request that all other people requesting keys are to be denied.