Originally posted by daytripper at 16-12-2017 02:07
Thanks for the breakdown.
My question is; are your valuables safe while you're inside
showering or should you bring them into the bathroom?
I know this is an old post and an old thread, but this is actually a question worth addressing.
It may not be so obvious to first-timers to HK just how small things are here. The 141 apartments (and the rooms in other types of establishments) are the size of really small hotel rooms - generally just enough room for a bed and some space to get to it. The shower is typically the size of a small western toilet - i.e. a small room with a toilet and a hand-held shower unit. It's sometimes quite difficult to get two people in there!
So, you can't bring valuables, or anything else, into the shower - they would get soaked! You usually won't even find tissues in there, since they would just get wet, so if you need to pee, etc, the girl will often bring you some tissues...
Anyway, the way it works in my experience is that you undress, hang up your stuff on hooks, and go into the shower together. She washes you down carefully, maybe blows you a little, and then sends you out to dry off while she washes herself. Same thing afterwards.
So, under normal circumstance, you're inside a tiny apartment, with the door locked, and you're never in the shower alone, so the potential for having stuff stolen is small (though, of course it's sensible not to carry too much cash, etc). But, as has been pointed out elsewhere, these places don't want trouble, and it wouldn't be good business for a girl to lift a couple of thousand HKD out of your clothes. She'll soon extract that legally if you come back...
Personally, I'm more worried about leaving stuff behind. I left my watch in one of those Mongkok brothels with the yellow signs outside a few years ago, only noticed when I got back to my hotel, and had difficulty remembering which place it was! I had to go into a couple of places before I found the right one. And just today I remembered that I'd left something on the shelf just as the door was closing behind me with a new punter inside...
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