Always get the guys to your floor and ask them to ring from there, I never give room number out till I know there on my floor . After bad experiences where guys have pretended to be there. Have a look at the decor and ask them a question they could only know if there. I used to give them room number if I could see them out side, but I had a few guys drop me in it and say where they were going!! This is for your security and decent guys always understand this, also you can be ready at the door to open, I tell them to open door like its there room and not to knock, but you will get the odd one who ignores these rules!!  If you have a gym in the same direction as lifts these are the best, then if a guys a nervous type I explain this and say they could carry a bag on there shoulder, but this is rare.. Key holes are always best. I always book hotel for 2 people, I always have nappy sacks, you don't want any smells and I dispose of rubbish when I can,I tend to keep low profile in day of quiet hotels but that's me.i think that's it really as it all depends on hotel, but the most important is the make sure you don't give room number till your sure they are there .

And advice I should sometimes give myself don't worry .. Like Paris has said if there on to you there on to you! Don't moan to loud! Ha ha

I agree best not to keep going out. My friend, who smokes, was in and out every five minutes.

I was always using hotels next to services  so would pop into WHSmith Waitrose etc  and get what needed foods and magazines to pass the time, I do make sure i have enough towels and drinks also for myself and clients. water or coke. I hide certain things out of sight and then wait for the phone to ring, also dispose of rubbish myself bring own litter bags to hide the evidence at the end of the day!

Hi all,

I'm also doing my first hotel incall next week and I was wondering at what point should I let clients know that it's a hotel rather than apartment/house. Should I mention it in advertising or when they phone?
Thanks all, and to Maddie - Best of luck to you, hopefully it'll go smoothly for the both of us.

Lady v do tell them and let them know in advance give them the choice ok, i tend to put this on my tour details too . but don't name the hotel  or room until client makes definite booking .

i kinda agree, but then I like to tell them on phone, as some may read hotel and it just put them off straight away , some guys just need to be put at ease , that there's nothing to feel nervous about. I've talked quiet a few guys into seeing me, when as I've said hotel, they nearly say I will leave it, also if you did have dodgy hotel( there rare) they can see instantly your staying in hotel, I think best get them to ring, then tell them your in a hotel

Lady v do tell them and let them know in advance give them the choice ok, i tend to put this on my tour details too . but don't name the hotel  or room until client makes definite booking .

I not only tell them, but I plaster the word HOTEL all over my advertising in as prominent a way as I can manage - I have had it three times in one paragraph in capital letters before just because the thick phone calls barking 'hotel or apartment?' at me without even saying hello drive me nuts. If a punter doesn't want to come to my hotel and would rather the whole world knew what he was doing as the tenth person to enter X apartment that day then that's his business, but I'm not wasting my time answering the phone to him when others might be trying to get through.

Anyway, I'd certainly agree on the mug and I take my own tea and coffee too as hotel stuff is always shite. My work phone is always on vibrate (it's been so long since I had it ringing I can't even remember what my ringtone is ) and I would also agree with going out on a morning and getting your stuff for the day, although if I read it right the OP is talking about an incall day rather than touring.

There's quite of a lot of this sort of stuff in the Touring article on the main site, but one I would add just for now is that if ypou're given a room with a connecting door, move. I've just had to do precisely this - I arrived at my hotel this afternoon and didn't really notice it because I was watching the FA Cup, but God did I know about it when a family with shrieking brats checked in next door. I was out and in a proper room within fifteen minutes - they were rattling the door handle trying to open it and if I'd had a punter in it would have been mortifying.