They might speculate privately about why you are booking into a local hotel when u live near there but there wouldn't be a problem, they wont question it or anything.
Personal experience with us and Travelodge has been.....check in as normal, one of you go out to meet your guest, both of you walk past the reception, give them a nice smile on the way past, and walk straight to your room. We have never been questioned or stopped.
If you are, its simple, you are going out together and your friend has come for a drink with you at the hotel before you go out! But I would be absolutely amazed if you were even questioned. If you were stopping for a couple of weeks and kept bringing a strange person to the restaurant with you everyday for a cup of tea and three straws they might be inclined to investigate but a single nights stay isnt worth a raised eyebrow! lol.
Hope you have as much fun in the Travelodge as we have had :happy:
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It really is as simple as that, honestly.
Just another tip, the walls aren't very thick so shouting JESUS F***ING CHRIST can bring a few disgruntled whingebags knocking at your door lol.
Hope you have a great time
There is no real problem with them, I use them all the time for buisness and pleasure, however, they now require ID for cash if you don't use a credit card, and if there are two of you, they normally need names, however, Mr and Mrs Smith, doesn't raise eyebrows anymore.
Nowadays, once you have a key, they are never sure who is there or not. Holidayinn Express are a little different, especially in Brum City Centre, they have asked me a couple of times if the young lady I was with was registered!
Having worked in the hotel business off and on for many years, I can assure you that there is no problem. Morality or lack of it isnt in the staffs brief.
Certainly this is true of the major chains, although smaller family run establishments may be a bit more resserved.
The bottom line is that the hotel is a business, so long as you arent causing a nuisance then there should be no problems.
I don't think the reception staff really care why you're there. It can be pretty obvious when you don't know your partners car registration or whatever, and it certainly is when you check in at 12:00 and check ouit at 4:00.
I was nervous the first time I used a hotel, but I booked on line and it was fine.
btw I used an Ibis hotel because you can check in there at 12:00 rather than the 2:00 or 3:00 at most others. I just wondered if any of you know any other chains that do early check ins, as I'm meeting a friend later in the year and we want somewhere about half way between us and there isn't a convenient Ibis.
Cheers
we also have had fun at hotels but no 1 every bothered us when we brought people back , just think were all in a big group or something so really dont worry
In answer to the question...
1 - they don't care as long as you pay!
2 - they have seen it all before!
3 - there are other resons to book into a local hotel other than to get some rumpy pumpy - i.e. having building work done, having your house fumigated, fire damage, letting a teenage son/daughter have a party.... so on.
4 - they have no idea half the time who is booked in or not - as at some point they will have changed shifts and some people do stay more than one night.
It's worth checking out their website. They occasionally do really cheap rates. They never seem to fall when I need one though.......
It's worth checking out their website. They occasionally do really cheap rates. They never seem to fall when I need one though.......
Trust me, it's great to be private and comfortable with a bed and facilities :-)
Peterlg,
i understand what you mean, and if anyone does know of a chain that let you checkin earlier id also love to know.
my partner lives a hour or so drive from me, and he cant drive at the mo either , so we were going to have a day of work and meet up in a hotel near him. Sadely i we both only had til 4-5pm and as check in is after 3pm it wasnt really worth booking the room.
so any other hotels would be good to know about
xx lou xxx
Hi DLTease, im very local to you guys and if you want someone to share your room with you i'd be glad to help out. Send me a message and i'll get back to you.
Reminds me of a story lol...... and its true!
We booked a nice country hotel down in Hampshire but when we arrived were more than a little dissapointed at the quality of the room and managed to swap to another.. still not much better but time was running against us so we just accepted it.. we met the couple down the road in a pub and after a few drinks agreed to all go back lol..... well a little later 6 of the 8 legs on this bed had broken so after our guests had gone we complained (this is about 4am) We not only got a refund but they also gave us two nights in a fab hotel in Oxfordshire and ended up with Sir Winston Churchills Honeymoon Suite lol...
Trust us hotels really do not bother what your doing so long as your curtious!
Mike xx
Please take as read
Y ou are not the first
You will not be the last
The reception desk staff have seen it all before
Just book in as normal get your "company" to phone you to go out and meet them and escort them back to your room
never had a problem at all and i have used them dangerously close to home lol
your only problem may come if you are personally recognised by someone at reception.
you do get strange looks when you check in alone and then walk past the desk later on with a couple lol.
i think they know the score and say nowt...or they are too embarrassed!!!
Just a quick question about booking a room at the local travelodge (if anyone can help) as we have never done this before.
Wow thank you for such a quick reply to this, is it really as simple as that :D 
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