Lately almost every Manhattan hotel requires you to swipe a room keycard to even use the elevator to go to a given floor. I need to meet with many clients and it is much easier if it is possible for me to have them just come up to my room so I don't have to meet them all in public at some eatery or coffeshop. Going down to the lobby several times a day to escort several clients up is annoying. Some other requirements:
-- I rather that it not be too expensive, the $90-180 a night price-range is ideal given the per diem I have to work with.
-- It is better if it is centrally located in Manhattan, moderately close to Penn Station and/or Grand Central Station so the clients can get to me easier.
Can someone list some hotels in Manny Hatty that don't require a key card for their elevator?
No keycard = hobo hub
Uhh no. Most hotels in the world don't require a room card to access the elevator and they don't become infested with homeless. Mostly Manhattan and certain other American cities like Chicago to seem to have this trend.
Never been to Vancouver, Seattle, LA or London I take it
What do you mean by that? That hotels there are over-run with homeless/drug addicts or that they also require key cards to activate the elevator?
yes
even in hotels that dont need keycard access for the elevator, front desk staff generally know who's in-house and also get suspicious if some non-guest is just walking around the place a few times a week
t.i work in a hotel, busy seasons we're always catching drifters trying to sleep in the hotel lounges or sneak in to use the gym at night etc
What about pros like OP?
Suck dick in an alley instead of your room anon. Problem solved.
Just rent a meeting room in wework or something
Are you a prostitute?
Bro, don't call several prostitutes in a single day. Just find a good looking one and pay up.
> -- I rather that it not be too expensive, the $90-180 a night price-range is ideal given the per diem I have to work with.
You realize that that is an EXTREMELY low scale for Manhattan, right? I have a hard time imagining getting any room in central Manhattan that you wouldn’t be embarrassed to host clients in for $180, even as a hooker. And I’m not even sure you can get a private room in a hostel for less than a hundred bucks in Manhattan. I stayed in the Jane Hotel (which sheltered survivors of the Titanic!) for work once for about $110/night, when I was also trying to hit stingy per diem rates; it was a room slightly smaller than a king-sized bed, with shared toilet and bath in the hallway. It was OK, but I wouldn’t have let any of the people I was meeting with see it (they wouldn’t have fit anyhow). And this was ten years ago.
You’re going to have to spend at least twice your per diem, and/or you’re going to have to hold court in a Holiday Inn Express out by one of the airports or in New Jersey.
If this is an actual business trip and you’re sincerely this ignorant and not just trolling, I agree with above poster that what you want is to rent a conference room in a coworking space for the day. You could probably get a conference room in a hotel, as well, but it’ll probably cost more. Then you can spend as little as you can to sleep somewhere tiny and gross and far from the center.
Hotel 32 32( 32 E 32nd Street, https://www.hotel3232nyc.com/ ) doesn’t require a key card for the elevator.
Hotel 32 32 charges $159 per night for a King Superior room for 2 people. You’re deluded on the price and amenities of Manhattan hotels.
>Hotel 32 32 charges $159 per night for a King Superior room for 2 people.
That is indeed a good price for location. But have you actually looked at photographs of the room? There's no closed closet, just a bar to hang coathangers on. The "desk" and TV are built into the wall, inches from the foot of the king bed, which predictably takes up nearly the whole space. There's no seating area or even a real freestanding table; I would be surprised if there's more than one chair. If OP is literally a prostitute, it should suit well, and it is definitely a better price than I have usually paid in NYC; I don't know if this place even existed last time I was in New York on business. I would certainly have considered sleeping there had I known about it (I was last at the late-and-not-as-nice-as-it-thought-it-was Roosevelt, which cost a lot more but at least had places to store my clothes that were not exposed).
But if he's conducting any kind of business apart from fricking, it makes me sad to think of him having to do it while sitting on the bed or making his clients do so.
>You’re deluded on the price and amenities of Manhattan hotels.
I am moderately well-informed on the price and amenities of Manhattan hotels, albeit clearly at least a little out of date.
A room in which I would personally feel comfortable conducting business costs more than $180, because I wouldn't conduct meetings on a mattress.
I'm the one that suggested Hotel 32 32. I have been in some of the rooms, they have a small table and chairs in some rooms. It all depends on what room option you pick.
It is hard to go by photos on sites like Booking, sometimes they hire excellent photographers who know how to frame photos and they are good at creating the illusion of space. You look at the photos and then actually book and are pissed. That happened to me in an Athens hotel that I thankfully only booked for one night. Other times the photographers aren't professional scammers and the photos make the room look small, but the size and layout of the room is excellent. There is also the issue that some of these of hotels sometimes have many options and a certain type of suite is crappy and small and another is overpriced but big, and perhaps one hits the sweet space of nice floor-space at a decent price.
This is the OP here, I’m really a journalist at a not so big publication. We don’t have massive funds and paying to meet sources all the time on trips means I can do less less on site investigation and more copy and paste type lazy journalism. I just wrote clients to LARP like I was a businessman or something since journalists are so hated. I didn’t foresee that it would lead to lots of stupid posts of me being a prostitute. That’s SighSee for you…
Hotel 32 32 seems promising. Does anyone have any other serious suggestions?
>journalist
unironically have more respect for prostitutes.
You're a blogger at best.
>I’m really a journalist
Tell the CIA to stop being cheap on your expenses.
If you forget about the keycard thing and just want a nice space for your meetings and work, then search for 'Hyatt office for the day'
You'll probably have to call up to book it, but you get the hotel room from 7am until 7pm, and can even use things like the gym.
Then maybe if you need to stay overnight, you can book somewhere cheaper away from midtown.
Of course, if you're doing shady shit, then it's probably not going to fly, but if you're doing genuine business then it'll probably be cool to have visitors. I would probably tell the front desk to call you and then send them up in the lift.
OP here. Sex work is real work.
I forgot to mention that I'm trans, if that matters.
I was in an airport hotel in Munich and you needed your key to enter the elevator. The key card kept getting deactivated and guests had to help other guests to get in. Everyone in the hotel was staying there, and it's not like they had a problem with randoms from the street coming in. I don't get it.
>-- I rather that it not be too expensive, the $90-180 a night price-range is ideal given the per diem I have to work with.
>In Manhattan
Does such a thing exist? Even business hotels in Jamaica cost $250.
Is working in NYC easy? Timewasters? Police? Average weekly profits? Where do you even advertise since Backpage got shut down?
Lazy. Just escort them.
can't you just tell the concierge to let anybody in that asks for you?
also,
> not being able to afford a $2 coffee per client
ngmi