OTC guide: Short stay hotels and other suggestions
Electronman
Too much of a good thing is never enough
Steeldog's post about how to ask for OTC, got me thinking that we could use an updated discussion forum on other OTC issues.
We do have a few prior discussions about OTC. My favorite OTC guide came from DoctorEvil (https://www.tuscl.net/article.php5?id=46…) but this was focused on OTC when traveling.
Many mongers arrange OTC closer to home. What other questions and advice do veterans have for arranging OTC at your local club?
For example, I know that conventional wisdom is to avoid OTC visits in your home or apartment unless you get to the stage where you trust your "visitor." I suspect that similar guidance applies to OTC visits at her home/apartment.
What advice do the veterans offer for finding hotels? Do most hotels offer "short stay" visits (for example 2-4 hours) at a discounted rate? Or should you just bite the bullet and rent the hotel room for a standard fee?
Any other advice for successful and safe OTC?
We do have a few prior discussions about OTC. My favorite OTC guide came from DoctorEvil (https://www.tuscl.net/article.php5?id=46…) but this was focused on OTC when traveling.
Many mongers arrange OTC closer to home. What other questions and advice do veterans have for arranging OTC at your local club?
For example, I know that conventional wisdom is to avoid OTC visits in your home or apartment unless you get to the stage where you trust your "visitor." I suspect that similar guidance applies to OTC visits at her home/apartment.
What advice do the veterans offer for finding hotels? Do most hotels offer "short stay" visits (for example 2-4 hours) at a discounted rate? Or should you just bite the bullet and rent the hotel room for a standard fee?
Any other advice for successful and safe OTC?
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Google is your friend. Enter the address of the club or other landmark. Open up the map and select the search nearby. Search for hotels. Take a few minutes to check them out. The hotel web site and google reviews will let you know if short stays. I usually find something within ten minutes.
If she's a local girl who has worked at your club for a while, the realistic risk of her doing anything to bring ongoing drama upon herself is extremely low. Just secure small valuables and important paperwork and you should be fine. The notion of using a hotel when you are single with a perfectly good bed at home has always seemed silly and wasteful to me.
With respect to visiting her place, I'd be much more cautious. I've done this a handful of times and never was it a great experience. I've never had any real problems, but some of these girls have really fucked up living situations and it can be sad to see.
If you must get a hotel, then nothing fancy is needed. I don't have hourly places near my local clubs, but you can always find a cheap lower end motel. Just use one of the travel consolidators, like Expedia, to search for local options.
I often use Priceline or one of those to book a hotel if I’m staying overnight. Mostly I just use the local no-tell though; they have 3 hour rooms for $50-60 depending on day and time of year. Sometimes Priceline will give me a deal for only a little more than that for an overnight.
Offer to buy food. Whether that’s carry out to take to the room, or a sit down before/after the festivities, it can sometimes seal the deal. Strippers *love* decent food.
My rationale:
1. I have saved 10's of thousands of dollars on hotels rooms.
2. My house and living room and bedroom are more convenient and comfortable than a hotel.
3. My wife doesn't mind (because I'm single).
4. My firearms are handy in case a boyfriend/pimp were to try anything.
I must admit that a few small valuable items have gone missing. Was it elves or strippers? You be the judge. However, the cost of these items is dwarfed by my savings on hotel rooms.
I only take strippers I know really well -- ATF status -- to my home
In past threads, many of the experienced OTCers opined along the lines of doctorevil in that it'll probably be more-enjoyable if you get a decent room vs the cheapest possible - most women are kinda finicky about certain things and a nicer-room may set a better mood whether consciously or subconsciously.
An app that lets one find rooms by the hour as subraman mentioned would be aces, but seems certain apps may just work in certain areas/cities - I would not want to rent a room just for an hour and have to be clock-watching, and once one goes past an hour it starts getting closer to what one would pay for a whole-night.
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I have only used 1 short stay hotel in Louisville and it was about $40-50 for 3 or 4 hours and was the worst hotel room I have ever seen. Shady streetwalker and drug dealer looking types hanging out everywhere. God only knows what types of stains on the bed, bedding and chair. A bathroom that looked worse than most dive club bathrooms. I vowed to never pay for another room like that as long as I live.
That's when I realized that in the areas I usually club (Louisville/Columbus/Indianapolis) I can usually find a 2.5-3 star hotel (Holiday Inn, Best Western, etc) for the night for about $50-60 through Priceline with their express deals. If I can't find one on there I can use 3k points on my Wyndham account and get one of their go fast deals for $45-70 for a Microtel, Howard Johnson, Ramada type of hotel. Even less for a Super 8 with Wyndham but those are sometimes sketchy depending on the area.
Never used any of the day rate apps but I'll look into them if I can get a decent room for under the prices I mentioned.
I'll check out the apps for finding short stay, day use hotels.
I also considered using hot tubs as a meeting point, but I don't especially like fucking in hot, bromide-infused chlorinated water.
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