Dad Branded Paedophile by Travelodge Staff for Staying in Hotel With Daughter

Metro (U.K.) ^ | Zoe Drewett | 18 Feb 2018

[miss marmelstein]

I can’t believe people here are supporting these rules that TravelLodge employees have to follow! That’s insane!

[catnipman]

he should sue Travelodge until he ends up owning the whole corporation ...

[ConservaTeen]

They should sue Travelodge. Haven’t those idiots heard of FAMILIES? I wonder what they would do if a single mom rented a room with her teenage son?

[NorthstarMom]

I agree. The article implies that the only reason they shared a room is that there were no others available. I’d never put a 14 year old in her own hotel room. Staff would know, they have access to pass keys and not all are trustworthy people.

[familyop]

What a creepy evil empire. Probably a good idea for families to avoid its other domains, too. Never cared much for the color red on coats anyway.

[ro_dreaming]

The goal is to make white men irrelevant. Notice how the dad is always the clueless bumbling imbecile and the mom or gay best friend is the savior?

[no-s]

I, as a parent, would never ever put a 14 year old girl in a room by herself in a motel or hotel anyway.

that’s for sure. I would always stay in a suite hotel and sleep in the front room on the pullout. The one time we gave them an separate room was a near thing, fortunately paranoia bedcheck caught them before any real troubles could get started...they were sooo sad when I poured all the liquor out...

Roll forward 7 years and you might have found me driving around Santa Monica in the middle of the night hunting for an open liquor store for my daughter’s wine requests so she and her friends could have a proper room party...

[familyop]

"The time to question the appropriateness of their checking into a room together was when they checked in. A simple question, what is your relationship to the young lady, sir? We’re required to be on the alert for potential inappropriate arrangements involving minors, I’m sure you understand."

That's the traditional way of doing it in the U.S.A. There are also cheerful, tactful and sociable ways of finding out.

[Pollster1]

I travelled cross country with my daughters when they each were ten. I got some looks. Then they heard us talk. There is nothing like the back and forth between a dad and a daughter who does not care about going to the Little Big Horn.

I suspect that is the difference that mattered. We know what normal father-daughter conversation sounds like. The funeral tone of visiting someone who may be dying probably struck them (accurately) as unnatural. The staff merely misread the meaning. As a parent, I would be okay with that error if the police were called on me.

[miss marmelstein]

Why was my post removed in which I said this has nothing to do with “bitter, sour women” but about the consequences of Rotherham?

[Wuli]

What is this culture saying, “teach your daughter to be afraid of her father’???

[TalonDJ]

“Travelodge have given Karl a full refund for his stay and offered him an apology. “

Nice try Travelodge... Now get out your checkbook because your going for a ride.

[Yaelle]

Holy shoot.

Seems unfair as I have traveled and shared a room with a tween/teen son, we did this all theme on sports competition trips, and no one ever accused me of pedophilia.

I understand the hotel doesn’t want to sit quietly when a 45 year old guy comes in with a 13 year old girl. So if the hotel room is $200 the dad has now to pay for two rooms, I guess. Because kids don’t usually carry ID. I guess the best thing to do is to get your kids a passport or something. But what if the kid has a different last name from dad? Then what?

It’s tough. When my pedophile was stopped by police he pretended I was his niece and I sat quietly. I now wish I hadn’t but I was too young to know better. Pedophiles do get away with this stuff by pretending the kid is their relative. So what is a good solution? I guess dads carrying the girl’s passport round with him?

Because if you have several or even two children and have to travel with one, the mom had to stay home sometimes with the other child. It’s a real situation. My own dad had enough $ that he would always get me my own room. Not everyone can afford that, and of course who wants their 13 year old daughter in a room by herself where she could sneak out unnoticed, also?

[Yaelle]

Only men are presumed guilty until proven innocent. Such assumptions would never apply to women.

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See my previous. I took my son to sports competitions and we shared a hotel room, as did many other mothers and sons. Those trips were costly, why not share a two queen room with your 10-17 year old son? Plus you can see when he comes home after hanging with his friends, make sure he turns off the electronics at a good time before the competition day, etc. No one ever thought we moms were pedos grooming young teen boys.

[T-Bone Texan]

You call them pallets too?

I always wondered if other people used that term.

My 6 year old loves to make them on Fridays in the living room in front of the TV.

[sheana]

That’s what my grandmother and mother called them. lol

[the OlLine Rebel]

OK, no one can ever go on vacation with one’s teenage children ever again.