Thanks Daisy, I might better suggest to meet in the room. Always an awkward thing the moment there has to be paid.

Good morning,

I have tried searching the forum for this but couldn't find it, so starting a new topic for a small question. Tonight I am meeting a client at his hotel. He would like to have dinner in the hotel first. How do you handle the payment in public? I have just emailed him saying in the nicest way that he has to pay at the start of our date. He could discretely hand it to me in an enveloppe. I just wondered how you girls do this. Do you meet him in his room first?

thanks for the advice!!

Ask him to put it in a Christmas card, seems less obvious and will only look like friends exchanging crimbo cards.

Update: had a wonderful evening last night. He was a gentleman! And he handled the payment very well. It was wrapped in a hotel evaluation form :-). I counted the money in the ladies room and it was all there. So it all worked out fine. Thanks for the advice from you girls!!!

Glad it went well in the end!

For future reference though, it's normally recommended that all the initial meeting/payment stuff takes place in private - that way you can count the money in front of the client (so you can't be accused of pocketing any on the sly if it does turn out to be short), plus making sure that the hotel room is the right one and everything's OK for where you'll be going later means you can do your call to your security buddy clearly in front of him too.

Not to mention the fact that you don't know what a new client looks like - if for whatever reason he'd bottled it or decided to be an arsehole, you could be hanging around a hotel lobby feeling like a pillock while he (and possibly some mates, depending on how thorough your security checks are) got a good look at you. Not fun.