Hi everyone! I'm taking an out of town trip soon and would like to hear about experiences anyone has had checking into their hotels while presenting as female. Good or bad, please share. Thanks so much!!!
Hi everyone! I'm taking an out of town trip soon and would like to hear about experiences anyone has had checking into their hotels while presenting as female. Good or bad, please share. Thanks so much!!!
Like a corpse deep in the earth I'm so alone, restless thoughts torment my soul, as fears they lay confirmed, but my life has always been this way - Virginia Astley, "Some Small Hope" (1986)
Sunlight falls, my wings open wide. There's a beauty here I cannot deny - David Sylvian, "Orpheus" (1987)
Well I seem to just get treated like a normal guest - hey I am normal. My money is as good as any one elses regardless of what I'm wearing. Though I do tend to dress as one would expect one to dress whilst traveling.
Besides, given todays financial climate I recckon you could check in to most hotels wearing what you want so long as it was appropriate and decent.
Hugs
Kay
I haven't YET, but I plan to
JoAnne Wheeler
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Hotels are in the hospitality business. The employees are graded on their ability to be courteous, polite, and discrete.
You'll be fine... if you are the same.
V/R --k
Hi Sara. I've checked in en femme before. It seemed quite easy:
1) Be your usual confident self.
2) Tell the receptionist you'd like to book in.
3) Let her / him do the work they need to do.
4) Say, "thank you" and head up to your room.
5) Get yer glad rags on.
6) Go out
Sarah...
Sara, no exaggeration - I've done it at least two dozen times (I travel a lot for my job).
Not a single bad experience or even dirty look. Go for it. ;-)
I defer to the advice offered by our resident travel queen, KimberlyTx. But my experience is the same as hers... it's no big deal.
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I plan to do the same in a week or two. I don't anticipate any issues. I have learned to act like you've done it before & it usually works out fine.
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And I was hoping you'd respond, thank you!!! I knew you'd have nothing but positive to report.Originally Posted by TxKimberly
Like a corpse deep in the earth I'm so alone, restless thoughts torment my soul, as fears they lay confirmed, but my life has always been this way - Virginia Astley, "Some Small Hope" (1986)
Sunlight falls, my wings open wide. There's a beauty here I cannot deny - David Sylvian, "Orpheus" (1987)
i have only done it once and did not have any problems. the desk clerk
(a guy)
didnt give me any indication that i was a crossdresser. i think that the whole
secert is go into any place like you own the palce. hold your head high with a
lots of confidence. you will be ok. have fun and enjoy yourself.
sue ellan
life is like a roll of tp. the closer to the end the faster it goes.
That pretty much IS the deal. If you act like it's no big deal, so will they.
In a nutshell, it is just like buying anything else. This time you are hiring a room. That is the only difference to a shop in the mall.
Mind the first time seems rather different.
~Samm
If you are nervous about it, book ahead of time and tell them that you are transgendered and will be checking in as Miss Sara .... It gives them am opportunity to make you feel welcome and not caught off guard.
The response I got after checking in was, Thank you ma'am. Enjoy your stay.
Carin
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Go for it Ive done it a few times just give them your femmine name when you make reservations and nobody cares.
Hey! I say go for it!!
Good Luck,
Rebecca
Although I have done this only a few times, I have had no problems. I agree with the others who have commented that it is partly a matter of the hotels/motels being in the hospitality business and partly a matter of CDs to go about it in a confident way, expecting what anyone else expects--hospitality.
On my first few times, I did call ahead just to check the waters. It probably helped, but I don't think that it's necessary any more.
warmly, Linnea
I've checked into and out of several hotels, boarded planes and ships, rented cars and a whole host of shopping and never had any "real" problems. Now I say real problems because i've been called "sir" a couple times and the only problem with that is it crushes your ego a bit, and shows the true caliber of person you are dealing with. Take these times as an opportunity to educate them that those of us who go out presenting as women often prefer to be addressed as women. This is especially true with service personnel who make money from tips. Sometimes a little education will either dispell their ignorance or let it shine on through!!
However, in all my travels I've noticed an easy way to spot TG friendly businesses: They have a little sign out front that says "Visa and Mastercard Accepted Here" :-) Sometimes it's just the little logos, but it all means the same, they want your money.
Since we're still men, do we have to have to take our bags to our rooms ourselves, or let the porter/bellboy do it, since we're presenting as women?
Hey Kym, come stay at my hotel, I won't make the mistake of calling you sir. Actually, that goes for all the ladies here, I need the business...lol
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Sara,
It s soooooo much easier than you can believe. I am in the US this week and next week when I gt back to Tokyo will make a longer post about flying internationally from Tokyo via Chicago into DFW "Flying Pretty" as Kimberley so elegantly calls it.
Go for it and enjoy being pretty,
Michelle
It would be easy if we looked as good as you do Kim.
But for the rest of us . . .
Love,
Jo
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]All good things come to "she" who waits!
Not this girl! I let the porter do it - whatever I'm wearing.
Sarah...
I have checked into hotels/motels enfemme maybe a dozen times in the last few years, no problems. But being called sir a couple a times, as I have been, was most ego deflating
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done it more than once--as long as your credit card takes the charge for the room you are fine.
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I have checked in en Femme on several occasions and I must say I have NEVER had any negative experience. In fast, there's one place I have returned to a few times and I find they remember me and treat me extra nice!
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