“Ummm, she’s working in a hotel, giving massages late at night - charging over $500 and she’s “taken aback” by a hug? Gimme a break.”
” he called the front desk of the Hotel Lucia on Oct. 24, 2006 and asked for a massage. When the masseuse arrived, Gore immediately turned on the global warming, hugging the masseuse a bit too close: “The hug went on a bit long, and I was taken just a bit aback by it,” said the masseuse. She also admitted that she didn’t protest because Gore “was a VIP and a powerful individual and the Hotel Lucia had made it clear ... that they were giving him ‘the royal treatment.’”
Not unusual for classy hotels to have a masseuse/masseur on call. They probably got half of the money.
At one point of my misguided middle age, I was one of those people that spend more than 100 nights a year in a particular hotel brand. I would get “VIP” treatment everywhere I went: Upgrades to the best suites, free gifts in the room, and I had been told that they would be happy to provide me with whatever I needed.
There was never any implied illegal, prostitution, or anything like that. It was more like “you are an important client, and we will do what we can to make you happy.”
The few times I asked for anything (a special meal or room change) they hopped on it. I am sure if I asked for a massage past the time it was listed in the services directory, I would have gotten it.
And, the one time I complained, it was made up to me with the presidential suite on canal street in NO for a week—at the single room rate.
I miss those days....