Hotels with hourly rates appear in Moscow like mushrooms after rain and are now considered one of the most lucrative businesses. In these hotels no lobby, no restaurant and even the reception is not always present. And the Breakfast is not worth to dream. But you can buy condoms in unlimited quantities and cheap alcohol. People come here with one sole purpose — love meeting “18+”. Many establishments often and have positioned: “hotels for a romantic rendezvous”.
photo: Natalia Gubernatorova
In order to get to know the everyday life of these institutions malonovogo, it is best to look at it from the inside, and that is to get a job — e.g. a maid. However, contrary to my expectations it turned out to be no easy task. Although the search engine immediately gave me more than 100 addresses, I found a vacant seat only after two days of searching. But the hotel was located close to the centre, in the district of Krasnaya Presnya. On the first day of work at the mentors I was assigned a 52-year-old Ludmila, who works in this school for three years now.
The woman looked typical: tight white trousers, etched with paint white hair, puffy face. Ludmila was a native Muscovite.
— Oh, I worked — she shrugs. — And at the box office, and warehouse, and factory. Here in the hotel I like most. And you, if not stupid, too accustomed.
By the way, the salary of a maid-administrator (typically, these two posts combined) by Moscow standards it is a decent — 60 000 rubles per month. Shift work — days through three. Plus “the left” means about 20 000 runs. I promised to tell my teacher.
— Can you keep a secret? From the authorities? OK, I’ll teach you, you look like the girl did. The husband is? No? The better. I won the husband is, and he’s no use. Five years ago it the stroke has broken, now can barely walk. Because need to drink less!
Ludmila herself was clearly against alcohol has nothing, that does not prevent her to be popular for visitors to its hotel. About it she told me first and even boasted reserved for the evening a room for a blind date with one of his men.
— Grishka-ment. We have a year together. The room I’m the best hold for us. Money for sex with men I did not take, but two hours of room hire is 1400 rubles — they give me, thinking I was at the cashier put them. Yeah, not a chance! This is one way to earn extra money. Such as Grishka, my heels will be typed…
Also for evening out the woman in store a bottle of cheap brandy, some chocolate, some fruit, and sausage meats. All this lover, of course, will pay, and what is left, she will carry back home. Another source of revenue.
And customers often ask us to set the table — drink, snack. And now in Moscow after 23 nothing with the degree can not buy, so have your uncomplicated supply of booze never hurts. A couple of bottles of wine for the evening just goes away. In the wholesale shop I take it for 300-400 rubles, and resell to customers at 1000. The same — with vodka and cognac. I never replaced the empty not come.
Of course, in the hotel to buy condoms of all brands and stripes. But this is the business owner. It maids do not climb.
— Yes, and figs with them! Unless elastic bands earn much… — says Luda.
photo: Natalia Gubernatorova
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Change the cleaning lady starts at 9 am. In the morning clients at the hotel absolutely not, all 10 rooms are empty. To remove them is also not necessary: did the smenschitsa.
— On a night usually stay 2-3 rooms. To remove them the morning is 20 minutes. But you won’t be bored by the lunch break will run across the people, encourage me a woman. — In the meantime, sit, relax. There are, of course, stray lovers, who want right in the morning, so before work to catch. But it is rare. One such couple we hang out somewhere for four months in a row. Here passion! And then stopped going. You know why? Oh, it was so hilarious! The husband of these ladies lovers have tracked down. They only went twenty minutes ago. Then the husband bursts in, angry as hell! “Where are they?!” I already was numb. Well, he’s down the corridor jerked and he found them — by the sounds from the room. Out jumped first lover, Sergei was his name. Right in his shorts ran me: “Ludka and save!..” I have it in the back. What, not to the street without pants? Well after hair husband was dragged from the room wife. In short, he walked in on them for the most interesting occupation. I then Serge the bottle and candy in gratitude brought. But as a girl I don’t know, didn’t ask…
And really, closer to noon, the phone in the hotel began to call. First came one couple. Obviously newcomers, like said about them People. Because came one by one, trying not to meet with us views. Then came the regulars of the institution — lovers from neighboring office buildings. My teacher said that he was the boss, she is his Secretary. They visited the hotel regularly, every Tuesday and Friday. Then came some adolescents, or students, whether students of senior classes. They took a room for exactly one hour, while the running time is two or three.
— Rogue — sigh Ludka. — Now all there dirty and even the tea will not leave…
— A passport with them why don’t you ask?
— What are you? What of the passport?! There’re not supposed to.
By the way, with the same purpose, the hotel does not have a Bank terminal payment. All cash only.
So to 17.00 gradually filled all the rooms, except that Ludka kept for himself. There she made the order perfect and even the flowers and ran alankila in the neighboring stall. A small bouquet of slightly wilted and broken cloves.
Around this same time was my baptism of fire — first maid in the room of adolescents. After the departure of the couple in the room remained crumpled bed, a dirty wine glasses, empty bottle, packaging of condoms…
— First look in the mirror teaches me Luda. And yet, when I go clean my room, do not forget with a tube to take the phone, but other clients miss.
And indeed, a large mirror, opposite the bed, all in fingerprints and splashes of wine.
Oh, how I love these mirrors! — Luda sighs, pulling from the truck spray with a detergent made for glass. — That’s nothing: sometimes it is dirty that you wonder just how he survived after such pleasures…
On the maid busily inspects the bed.
— If no spots, it is not necessary to change sheets. Just iron it with a steam generator, and all! What eye vylepil? Anything from hot steam all the bacteria will die, and don’t need to imagine the gravity pull. Keep in mind, washing and Ironing — also on you. The change must pass that everything was laundered.
— Towels — too steam?
— No towels — this is too much. Look, if they are used change.
In the bath was tidy, the shower did not even use. In another room the mirror was clean, but the bathroom — all in the water.
— That pig! Well at least for tea forsook Luda sighed and grabbed the MOP.
For such cases provided in the floor drain. By the way, the decor in the rooms is quite decent: expensive bedspreads, coffee table on curved legs, TV, Wi-Fi.
— Where is the wardrobe?
— And it is-then why? Nobody lives here, like in regular hotels.
— Is it just hourly clients?
— 99% of these. Even at night rarely. Yes and it’s expensive: our school is about 3000. For the money you can find a hotel with Breakfast. There are, of course, travel, are here in parallel and having fun…
About clients during my daily watch Luda told a lot. Patrons of the hotels on the hour — mostly men.
— Regular customers we have a lot, I had three years all have already studied. Most here have their wives around. Same home a lover not a lead, right? And here you can always look for a couple of hours after work. But a lot of single men come here. And often with different girls. Why not lead? And because it’s easier! And the house needs tidying up and the cleaning lady to call is almost more expensive than the us a couple of hours. And then, the provincial women in Moscow a lot — so invite me into their homes and won’t be kicked out. Be begging to spend the night, then on weekends, and off it went. And here a couple of hours hang out, and go home. Many young people come as students, they generally nowhere. And at the hotel for an hour to go — the money is the same as in the movie. But they’re all mostly in winter. And in the summer parents summer cottage and they are on ghatam. But generally starting in may and through September 1, vacant rooms do not! Men lose their passions while families on the seas and villas. Every time I fall after the summer in neuralgia back, because the day before 30 of cleaning happens, and our cart with a vacuum cleaner and all the other bells and whistles kilogram weighs exactly 20…
What surprised me most — a lot of couples and respectable age. One such fell into my shift.
— Oh, V. G., Lidia, something you never looked?.. happily welcomes two gray, power of retired People. — How are you? Nothing? What your son and his wife all the way from you not moving out? You bum, you would mortgages issued…
This couple, as told to the maid, already together for a long time. The woman lives in one apartment with an adult daughter and her family, the man — with his son. To meet for intimate Dating them absolutely nowhere. When the kids at work — at home grandchildren, and uncomfortable somehow.
— I feel sorry for them, and I always take two hours, — Lyudmila sighs. And retired no life no… In my eyes here know what a tragedy unfolded — the horror! Same here pensioners came to see me. And they with each other for many years, Vera I. was his mistress since shaggy times. He is a Director of some enterprise, the important man was, divorce was obscenely early. Here’s to us here they went quite regularly. And then his wife died, and Dmitry suggested Vera Ivanovna to move in with him. Such happy and they went under the handle, I have met them often on the street. In the sanatorium went together. And then Dmitry Sergeyevich as a decent man asked her to sign, even though they are already under 80. So his children such a wall up, we will not give, and that’s it! She’s so-rastakaya, adventurer, to the apartment of your coveted — he “treshka” on Krasnaya Presnya. And all father for a key close to him did not come. He went out of the window and jumped out. That’s what love is!..
Of course, a lot of the hotel on the hour and prostitutes.
Oh, and brazen category of these girls! — sighs Luda. — Demand discounts, kickbacks or so we took the rooms with their men two times more, and the difference is halved; small podmigivaet its all that we’ve been given… I tell them: “Beauty, home drive men, it is cheaper”. And they can’t live in one room, two, three… They’re more comfortable. But such that men lead here, still a bit is not much privatem.
photo: Natalia Gubernatorova
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All sorts of stories about the relationship with my mentor — so much so that the book can write. How many times before her eyes unfolded a love of battle, how she had been deceived wives and husbands — not to consider. And most of all she was presented as a very passionate and loving woman. And I am convinced of this, seeing as the whole day she masterfully distributes his “suitors” so that her shift is hit and the influx of people was not. Most of their knights she meets on the job. Several more on a Dating site.
When I saw her long-awaited Grisha, I was very surprised. Young — 35 years of age, broad-shouldered, good-looking man in an expensive car. Clearly successful and could get a regular girl. But to him a couple of times a week is enough 50-year-old Baba drinking and this is a cheap hotel.
Your success mentor explained it very simply:
— Free sex, dear, love You all…, by the way, my suitors don’t look, and I quickly will make it so that you throw away. Understand? There was one here we have a Russian teammate that foreign men lured, — we girls immediately eliminated.
Midnight, we have already made around 20 cleanings, and maybe more — I honestly lost count. From lugging myself Tyulenovo vacuum cleaner back ached, he was dazzled from the packages of condoms, bottles, sheets and towels, men’s and women’s faces, shyly lowered eyes, or, conversely, lustful gazes.
— Oh, how tender! — People laughed. — You have not really worked even. Here spring soon, then we’ll get…
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“A relationship without marriage” — a slogan a few decades ago did not cause any dualistic thoughts. He hung in all branches of telephony. Today, this time to hang in such “hotels” and hotels-that to name language does not turn.
Towards evening came the owner, took the proceeds and ordered to paste on the doors promotional poster: “Special offer for lovers Valentine’s Day — 3 hours for the price of two”.
Such is love.
