The Reservation Is Listed As TMI

[tropicsgoddess]

These are short stories. A little BG info: I work as an 800 General Reservations Rep for The Group of Prime Hotels**.

I had a guy call in that asked if we had hourly rates. At the time I didn't know what he implied by that (this is my first hotel reservations job btw) until the response I got from it was "eeewww! gross" and was told that we don't do hourly rates.

My co-worker L, she had a guy calling in to meet his mistress at XYZ Hotel.

TMI much?

**Name Changed For Privacy Reasons

[bhskittykatt]

At my motel, we call those "hump & dumps".

"Prime Hotels" is a step above our chain, and we don't even do hourly rates! I don't know of any chain that does. You'll have to find some scary hole-in-the-wall place for that (and watch out for those holes in the wall when you do get there...)

[XCashier]

At my motel, we call those "hump & dumps".

Hubby calls that kind of place the "No-Tell Motel". I'm sure there are many such nicknames for them...

[Jester]

I once asked for an hourly rate, but not for the typical reason.

I was DJing weddings in Arizona at the time, and I had just driven up to the Arizona/Utah border to DJ one, spent several hours there, and was on my way back to Phoenix. But by the time I got to Flagstaff, I was exhausted, and couldn't see straight. I knew I could not safely drive the last 2.5 hours back to Phoenix. So I stopped in at a little roadside motel and asked them about getting a room for just a few hours, since it was already about 3 am. While they didn't do hourly rates (duh), the nice lady behind the counter, seeing how truly wiped (and sober) I was, gave me a discounted room for the few hours I needed to snooze and recharge.

In my defense, I thought it reasonable to ask for an hourly rate, since I only intended to use the room for a few hours. And I was young and even stupider than I am now, if you can believe it.

[Mr Hero]

If BHS's "Prime Hotels" is what I'm think of, I work for them and here at my hotel, we certainly don't do hourly rates. I get asked for super cheap rooms if they only intend to stay for an hour. Uh, no. Once you sleep in the bed, HK has to do the same amount of work whether you slept for 1 hour or if you slept for 15.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Another way to look at is all motels/hotels have an hourly rate, with a 20 hour minimum charge (3pm to 11am), incrementable by 24 hour blocks.

[Fudgethatkay]

Japanese and Korean love hotels can be reallly nice. And have hourly rates. :P

[PepperElf]

Some hotels in Japan do hourly rates too. Pretty much for what you're thinking - used for prostitutes and for people getting quickies.

From what I saw they had rooms on the "menu" that lit up when they were cleaned for the next customer. (Yes bf and I looked into renting a room but chose to get a regular hotel room instead.)

[zenhashi]

I think the term you're looking for is "Love Hotels"

[PepperElf]

yep. that's the one.


there was one near my bootcamp too, but it was marked off limits because supposedly some of the sailors were getting mugged by prostitutes when their pants were down.

one of the girls i knew got a room there but it was with her boyfriend back before they got married.

[Lachrymose]

I may have posted this before.

When I was a lad o' eleven years or so, my father and I took a driving trip to Florida.

Now, my family was always the type to get the cheapest, almost crappiest motel possible. Sometimes it was fine.

In Miami, we stopped at one, and my dad asked the clerk how much it would be.

The clerk asked "The whole night?"

We left immediately. I didn't even know the problem until I was a bit older.

[Jester]

From what I saw they had rooms on the "menu" that lit up when they were cleaned for the next customer.

While it's not exactly the same thing, I have seen the same technology employed in restaurants. To wit, at the hostess stand, they have a floor plan of the restaurant, as they do at pretty much most restaurants. But this was an electronic floor plan, which had tables lit up in different ways and/or in different colors (I don't remember the particulars of the one I saw in person) to indicate occupied, vacant but dirty, and vacant and ready for new customers. It's pretty cool, actually.

[HotelMinion]

lol. I remember when i was a young, innocent hotel worker at a motel and someone asked how much is three hours? I would pay good moeny to see the look on my face at that time. Now I don't even blink...

[Automan Empire]

In some cities, it is against the law to rent the same room more than once in a 24-hour period, to combat problems that arose. It makes it easy to say no to insistent customers.

Of all the times to be cheap, or to blather TMI...

[EricKei]

We have a certain area of town that is a fairly blatant red-light district -- Lemme put it this way : only Domino's delivers there >_> ... Several years ago, the "no-tell motel" problem got so out of hand (read: too many politicians getting caught in them) that a law was passed prohibiting hourly room rentals in that specific area alone.