Hotel Keycard Locks: Hobbyist’s Bane

I prefer outcall appointments but when I have to venture out to meet a professional lady I increasingly encounter keycard readers on hotel elevators or door to guest room floors from parking garages. The intention is keep people who are not registered guests from getting to a guest’s room door. Fine if you are “legitimate” traveler wanting security. A problem if you are on your way to see a traveling lady who picked a hotel without knowing it had these obstacles to her customer guys reaching her bed.

Once the door from the parking garage was ajar when I arrived, possibly left that way by someone who did not wish to deal with the card reader lock. Once I tried the door and it did not open, evidently I looked helpless as a maintenance guy used the keycard hanging around his neck to open the door for me. I thanked him. Once I followed a group into the elevator. A male guest used his card to start the elevator. A woman punched my floor for me since I had an Appletini from the hotel bar in each hand and my briefcase hanging from my arm. It turned out that she was on the same floor and staying across the hall so she knocked on my lady’s door for me too! I think that used up about two years of luck relative to these evil devices. Last time because I had advised the Visiting Lady that her hotel had keycarded elevators she had a dress on and came down in the elevator to meet me at the lobby. She did not want to be seen in the lobby because there were more “admirers” to come later and so stayed in the elevator. I knew about the card readers from reading hotel reviews - I like to be prepared AKA being paranoid.

This type of security seems to be presently found mostly at upscale hotels, especially those downtown. However, I have encountered these things in a “suburban” extended stay suite hotel with separate buildings. A key card was required to open the outside door to the interior hall. When I called the lady popped out of her room to open the door in a see-through nightie with nothing on under it. She had the room nearest the exterior door but it seemed a bit iffy. Not her usual hotel she said.

Only once have I encountered a reasonable apartment house-type door call system that allowed a guest to open the door remotely to a vistor. This at another multi-building extended stay.

Anyone have ideas how deal with this type of obstacle when the object of your desire is waiting naked upstairs and you are down in the lobby or out in the parking garage keycardless?

Maybe you can just toss a grappling hook up to her window and climb your way up

I have encountered this once, it was a pain.

I liked the appletini approach, too bad the friendly lady who knocked on the door for you couldn't come in and join. I bet it would have been pretty easy to have another appletini sent up.

It's happened to me multiple times seeing gentlemen in their hotels.

11 flights of stairs is a bitch in heels.

It's happened to me multiple times seeing gentlemen in their hotels.

11 flights of stairs is a bitch in heels. Originally Posted by MaddietheCoed

That deserves a serious surcharge.

The only hotels in Austin that require key cards are to get up to the executive floor levels. Providers don't usually stay in those rooms but hobbyists sometimes do. They know about the key card requirement because they have to use it to get to their room so I've never had one not meet me at the elevator before.

I have been to every four star hotel in Austin -- their aren't many of them -- and never encountered this as an issue locally. I don't see how on earth a provider could be staying on a secure floor and not know that she's staying on that floor. How else did she get the elevator to work?

The only hotels in Austin that require key cards are to get up to the executive floor levels.

I have been to every four star hotel in Austin -- their aren't many of them -- and never encountered this as an issue locally. I don't see how on earth a provider could be staying on a secure floor and not know that she's staying on that floor. How else did she get the elevator to work? Originally Posted by Sensual Sophia

I really, really do hate to disagree with Sophia, whom I have seen before and hope to see again, but I have to say I do not believe that is not an accurate statement about the local prevalence of key card reader security measures.

I haven't been in a four star hotel in years. I do not spend that kind of money for anything except quality companionship. The three hotels I gave as examples are all real, I did not make them up. None are four star hotels. Expensive hotels seem to charge extra for what lesser (cheaper) hotels supply for free like wi-fi and continental breakfast. I would not be surprised if they charged extra for security that three and fewer star hotels provide across the board.

One of my points was that it is difficult to know when you are booking a room whether the hotel security is going to make it difficult for the customers to get to you unless you scrutinize the hotel reviews very closely. I gather that if a service like Priceline is used what you get is not revealed until you have committed yourself to it. I was hoping someone might have some workarounds to deal with a potentially awkward situation. I confess that I did not consider the possibility that the stairwells in the hotel at which I visited the out of town lady last week were unsecured like the ones Maddie has walked up so I did not ask for the room number but waited for the lady to come down in the elevator. The problem with that, as opposed to a customer guy greeting his "date" for the hour in the lobby is that she was going to have to do that repeatedly and feared that would be noticed.

This was a high rise downtown hotel, fairly new but not the flagship of its well known brand, which is located two blocks away. The local flagship hotel, that is.

Greymouse, this is not quite what you are speaking about here, but it's my favorite hobby key-card story. It happened earlier this year.

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We’re kissing good-bye at the door. What a date! Wow! What a woman! Wow! I’m a little giddy and frivolous.

I notice the long, empty corridor. “One more pic,” I say, “Step out here. It’s okay.” She does and as the shutter goes “click,” so does the door. It swings shut and latches. “CLICK!” “Do you have the keycard?” “HUH? I’M NAKED!”

She puts on my shirt and goes down to the desk with some cock-and-bull story about locking herself out on her way to the spa or the ice machine or something. A suspicious clerk asks her for ID (“I’M NAKED!”) but her supervisor cuts another key. “Happens all the time.”

The hotel? One of downtown Austin’s finest. The Adorable? One of Houston’s finest.



Monk

I really, really do hate to disagree with Sophia, whom I have seen before and hope to see again, but I have to say I do not believe that is not an accurate statement about the local prevalence of key card reader security measures.

I haven't been in a four star hotel in years. I do not spend that kind of money for anything except quality companionship. The three hotels I gave as examples are all real, I did not make them up. None are four star hotels. Expensive hotels seem to charge extra for what lesser (cheaper) hotels supply for free like wi-fi and continental breakfast. I would not be surprised if they charged extra for security that three and fewer star hotels provide across the board.

One of my points was that it is difficult to know when you are booking a room whether the hotel security is going to make it difficult for the customers to get to you unless you scrutinize the hotel reviews very closely. I gather that if a service like Priceline is used what you get is not revealed until you have committed yourself to it. I was hoping someone might have some workarounds to deal with a potentially awkward situation. I confess that I did not consider the possibility that the stairwells in the hotel at which I visited the out of town lady last week were unsecured like the ones Maddie has walked up so I did not ask for the room number but waited for the lady to come down in the elevator. The problem with that, as opposed to a customer guy greeting his "date" for the hour in the lobby is that she was going to have to do that repeatedly and feared that would be noticed.

This was a high rise downtown hotel, fairly new but not the flagship of its well known brand, which is located two blocks away. The local flagship hotel, that is. Originally Posted by greymouse

Sorry. When you said upscale I assumed you meant 4 star. I have been to many of the 3 star hotels as well and never encountered a problem there but obviously I wasn't accusing you of lying. I was just sharing my experience. As an escort, I hit up a fair amount of hotels in this town. I also worked exclusively out of hotels for the first 6 months in this biz -- but mostly in 4 stars although I have been to plenty of the lower ones... My experience is that if you walk through the front door, you only need a key card to get to an executive levels and sometimes the gym or pool floor. The only exception would be the downtown Omni after 10 pm on weekends when they sometimes have security guards asking you to show your keycard. Of course, since they made the floor that holds the swimming pool key card only, I haven't noticed the security guards asking questions...

Side doors usually require key cards in extended stays but I've never encountered the elevator problem there. I HAVE encountered it in other cities, but again, it seems like the gent who booked the hotel knows about the problem and notifies me ahead of time to meet him in the lobby or whatever floor can be accessed freely.

When a provider has the misfortune to have booked a hotel and gotten a room without open access -- it's happened to me before -- it is her responsibility to greet the gent at whatever point he is allowed to enter and then bring him upstairs. If her volume is so high that this would attract unwanted attention, then it's her responsibility to cancel the room and book another. Yes it sucks to eat the hotel cost but she took a gamble with priceline and most of the times she saves a lot of money, so eating the occasional hotel bill should be viewed as a cost of doing business. If she is high volume, she will be able to make up for it. I have accidentally booked a room at a hotel via priceline that hobbyists were uncomfortable with because of the tight security. I booked another and just ate the cost.

If a provider leaves you stranded with no way to get into her room then she's just not doing her job.

It shouldn't be the hobbyists responsibility to investigate the security procedures of a hotel he is not staying at -- that's her job. If the key card is required to leave the garage (that's a new one for me) then I would hope the provider would advise you to park on the street, a public garage, or to valet.

[QUOTE=Monk Rasputin;820280]Greymouse, this is not quite what you are speaking about here, but it's my favorite hobby key-card story. It happened earlier this year.

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We’re kissing good-bye at the door. What a date! Wow! What a woman! Wow! I’m a little giddy and frivolous.

I notice the long, empty corridor. “One more pic,” I say, “Step out here. It’s okay.” She does and as the shutter goes “click,” so does the door. It swings shut and latches. “CLICK!” “Do you have the keycard?” “HUH? I’M NAKED!”

She puts on my shirt and goes down to the desk with some cock-and-bull story about locking herself out on her way to the spa or the ice machine or something. A suspicious clerk asks her for ID (“I’M NAKED!”) but her supervisor cuts another key. “Happens all the time.”[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][QUOTE]

It is a good thing that you are so, ah, em, tall, yes, that's it, tall so that your shirt could serve as an expedient dress. I hope you had an undershirt and jacket too so you could do your Don Johnson impersonation while the plucky lady was dealing with the front desk. She sounds really cool, as in the "under fire" sense.

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She sounds really cool, as in the "under fire" sense. Originally Posted by Monk Rasputin

She is really cool. IMO, Aidan MacKenna provides an experience second to none. She has a dogged commitment to client satisfaction, is passionate and really "enjoys" her sessions (watch out if you have thin walls), and is super friendly, personable, natural and easy to be with. Greymouse, I'm quite certain you would adore her.

Awwwwwww thank you for the kudos.

... A woman punched my floor for me since I had an Appletini from the hotel bar in each hand and my briefcase hanging from my arm. ... Originally Posted by greymouse

You take your briefcase to appointments?

You take your briefcase to appointments? Originally Posted by FLWrite

I do indeed. The ROS portion of my reviews make it clear, with links, why that is. Not really much point browsing ECCIE without ROS access. The briefcase also provides a place to put the condoms that work well for me, a good German-made lube with no taste, other fun stuff and spare batteries for it.

It also contributes to my insurance salesman protective cover. One does want to be inconspicuous.

I've seen that at the W in SF (at $450 a night, good thing my company was paying) and the Hilton Towers (Watch "The Fugitive", thats the hotel). You could get to the conference level floors, but not beyond.

I've stayed in just about every "decent" hotel in Austin (business, before moving here) and many in places like LA, SF, Miami, Dallas, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera and those are the only two I've seen.

Oh, and if you sleep nude, at least keep a robe close by. Fires can cause some embarrassment if all you have is a towel and you have to cover top & bottom.