Front Desk Jockey here, cleaning up after them is par for course (at least for the housekeepers). It's just part of the selling spaces at huge markup. The only issue with prostitution is when it start effecting other guests or causes damage to the room (the reason cash-only rooms are damn near non-existent). Making noise all night is going to get a eviction warning from the FD, regardless of how it was created.

Management isn't a fan of it, but unless you can prove something concretely what are you going to do? The money is as good as any other and if the escorts are respectable to the property and rules, why not?

Personally I'm on good terms with a few of the local escorts, they always have great stories and are fairly personable. Not a fan of their line of work, but hey revenue!

I had a friend who worked the front-desk of several hotels during university in Canberra. He gave the impression that he was not only aware of the prostitutes, but was on pretty good terms with the regular ones.

Albeit, granted I'm sure the regulars weren't generally in the practice of wrecking the rooms... but cleaning up after the horrible things people do in their rooms is pretty stock standard for the hotel industry...

No one "likes" it, but no one likes cleaning toilets either, and that still needs getting done and people do it and its stock/standard of being a cleaner...

And if you're not hiring a cleaner to clean your rooms and doing it yourself, you can bet 100% you'll be cleaning up some pretty horrible stuff in the accommodation industry. If they leave the room in a bad state, that just makes them bad customers...

Does the prostitute use the hotel room as a work room and invite several guests throughout the night, or is she taken along by (a) "normal" guest(s) who rented the room and bought her services for a night? That makes quite a difference.

(I used to do a lot of work photographing escorts.)

A little of both, depending on the "class" involved, and the location.

You might be surprised to learn that a lot of prostitution happens during the day-time. In largish-hotels a bloke going up to a room, spending 30-60 minutes there, and coming down wouldn't stand out. Even if the same host entertained 5+ people in her day.

(Unless you get involved in high-end work you'll virtually never have an overnight booking. Average duration amongst the people I knew was 60-90 minutes.)

IANAP (I am not a prostitute :P), but...

I was not under the impression it was common for several clients to be booked during the one night.

I believe the girls would either use the hotel room for:

a) A place of work for regular specific bookings: it has the benefit of not being at a brothel/not at their home if they aren't comfortable with that, and it can become a familiar place and you'll be "reasonably" safer than going out to a clients house.

b) A way to work if you're in a different city/having another girl coming from another city.

Obviously, if you remember your freakonomics, there are levels to the prostitutions market. So there is the possibility of:

c) Its a place to drum up new business. I imagine places like hotels in Washington/Canberra where people are there on business, have money, and are away from their families, is, in the prostitution business, a place of relatively high demand. So the clients might have a room there that they're already paying for...

Now to be fair, this is at the relatively upper-end of the prostitution market.

Ironically, in the context of my other discussions in this thread, in this country at least, if there's a super low-end part of the prostitution market, i'd expect it to be operating out of illegal brothels...and probably out of unmarked houses out in the burbs...

Yes, that seems like the most reasonable objection, as if it's then used by multiple other guests then it's effectively subletting and (presumably) not what the owner agreed to.

The state of the flat is unfortunate but goes with the territory for AirBnB / hotels etc.

You wouldn't believe what I sometimes saw in the toilets when I worked as a bartender. I also know some hotel workers, and I can tell you that picking up condoms under the bed is a regular occurence. The really nasty things are when the guests are more into... sexual fetishes involving fecal matter.

Surprise: not the escorts book the rooms, but the clients, and the most weird stuff is usually found within the wealthier client groups.

Cleaning up rather horrible messes of things people would rather not touch is, in fact, normal, albeit not the norm (i.e. it happens on a regular enough basis that it's not anything special, but most rooms are relatively ok).

Oh yeah of course, but I'm sure hotel owners and staff don't just tut and laugh and go "the prostitutes again haha", and don't particularly enjoy cleaning up after people who've used your facilities to make a lot of money illegally. As in...they'd turn down the custom if they could.

Sure, but if you have facilities open to the public you're going to get... the public. It's hardly just prostitutes that leave rooms in a state, after all. It's something you plan for, and you don't get to whine about having failed to plan for it.

The hotel management doesn't give a flying fuck about what the cleaning staff laughs about; as long as the customers don't disturb other customers and the room isn't an expensive mess (think broken beds and chairs), the customers get served and rooms get cleaned afterwards.

Cleaning weird stuff is a regular thing in hotels and hostels; and condoms aren't even weird, they'd be probably the most common stuff found in hotel room trashcans.